Tag: racket
Macedonia 28.02.20 | 20:12

I don’t remember, Zaev says when asked when and how he reported the Racket scandal to state prosecutors

Zoran Zaev said that he doesn’t remember whether he signed a report when he allegedly went to state prosecutors to ask them to investigate the Racket scandal. Opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski pressed him on the issue given Zaev’s repeated boasts that he is not a crook in this case but...

Macedonia 28.02.20 | 12:26

Boki 13’s family offers 150,000-euro guarantee that he will not escape

Bojan Jovanovski’s defense at Friday’s “Racket” hearing said 150,000 euros were offered to release him from detention. Boki’s family offers a house that costs 100,000 euros and a bar worth 50,000 euros. His lawyer Sasko Dukoski said the reason why he should be released from...

Macedonia 27.02.20 | 11:57

Boki 13 remains in detention

The trial chamber ruled on Bojan Jovanovski’s request for house arrest. Judge Vaska Nikolovska Masevska stated that she is not accepting it and that the conditions for his release were not fulfilled. The court finds that insufficient evidence has been provided about the medical care he needed and...

Macedonia 27.02.20 | 10:20

Ruskovska claims “Racket” money ended up with Boki 13 and 1TV

Chief prosecutor Vilma Ruskovska believes the money from the Louis Vuitton bag ended up in 1TV and the journalists who worked there. Asked during a talk show on Alfa TV where the million-dollar bag taken from Orce Kamchev ended, the prosecutor in charge of the “Racket” case answered with...

Macedonia 24.02.20 | 23:20

Katica Janeva and Bojan Jovanovski alone couldn’t have extorted money from businessmen without government support

In an interview with Alfa TV, Antonio Milososki said that Katica Janeva and Bojan Jovanovski alone could not have extorted money from businessmen without government support. I think that Katica Janeva and Bojan Jovanovski, both as couples have no personal or institutional capacity to extort money from...

Macedonia 23.02.20 | 14:01

Is the new “bomb” linking Zaev to the “Racket” case

The “bomb” released today by MP Antonio Milososki caused a storm of reactions. Some say people are questioned by the police for a few hours for such thing. As Milososki said this is an audio bomb of high public interest, delivered by a whistleblower, which allegedly features the voice of...

Macedonia 22.02.20 | 11:04

VMRO-DPMNE: Zaev runs the SDSM criminal racketeering gang

Zoran Zaev is in charge of the SDSM criminal racketeering gang. Fake news, manipulation and ridiculous excuses cannot suppress the truth about “Racket”, which is that Janeva and Kiceec have extorted money from about 10 Macedonian businessmen in amounts exceeding 20m euros. They were under...

Macedonia 21.02.20 | 16:45

Mickoski: Prosecutors don’t dare interrogate Zaev, police agents turn their cameras off when Janeva goes to his villa

The entire public realizes that Zoran Zaev had a close relationship with former Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva. Zaev was also close with a media owner (Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13) and was so direct with him to inquire how he funds his business, said VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski. The...

Macedonia 21.02.20 | 09:33

Tapes of Zaev’s involvement in “Racket” will not be used as evidence under the new PPO law

Everything we heard about Zaev and his involvement in the “Racket” case with the new PPO law will not be used as evidence, VMRO-DPMNE Secretary-General Igor Janusev said on TV 21’s “Click Plus” show. All the conversations that came out and are still coming out in the public,...

Macedonia 20.02.20 | 17:24

Racket trial: Janeva will ask most of the former SPO staff to testify on her behalf

During the Racket trial hearing, the defense began calling out witnesses and presented its plan for the coming days. The first witness was Vasil Dimiskov, brother of judge Vesna Dimiskova, and in the coming days the court will hear from businessmen Vladimir Todorovic and Dejan Pandeleski. Disgraced former...

Macedonia 20.02.20 | 12:19

Boki: If I acted like Kiceec or if I said Katica was guilty I would have been released

Defendant Bojan Jovanovski at the end of his address to the trial chamber said it would have been different if he had said something about the others in the case. If I acted like Zoran Milevski or if I said that Katica was guilty or that Remenski was taking money maybe they would have released me, Jovanovski...

Macedonia 20.02.20 | 11:55

Ruskoska to Boki: This is a courtroom, not a theater stage!

Prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska and Bojan Jovanovski had a heated exchange over whether he should be released from detention. Boki begged the court for a milder measure, saying that he would not run away and that he must think of his health. This is a courtroom, not a theater stage, the prosecutor told him....

Macedonia 20.02.20 | 11:05

Zoran and Vice Zaev met with defendants and convicts in “Racket” in June, July

Zoran Zaev is the head of the criminal octopus. Zoran and Vice Zaev met with Katica Janeva and Zoran Mileski – Kiceec. This was also confirmed by Zaev himself, who admitted that he knew and did not report the suspicious financing of 1TV and the racketeering carried out through the medium, VMRO-DPMNE...

Macedonia 20.02.20 | 09:22

“Racket” trial resumes, Boki13’s witnesses to testify

The “Racket” trial resumes. Witnesses from Bojan Jovanovski’s defense will testify. His lawyer Saso Dukovski did not want to reveal the persons involved. Next week, Katica Janeva is also scheduled to call witnesses who would speak in her defense.  

Macedonia 18.02.20 | 22:46

Zekiri confirmed that Kiceec was meeting with Vice and Vane Andreev

SDSM MP Muhamed Zekiri confirmed on TV 24’s “Otvoreno” show that the meeting between Vice Zaev, a lawyer close to Zoran Zaev and Zoran Mileski Kiceec, really did happen. Yesterday’s development in the “Racket” case is good proof to show that we are not all the same....

Macedonia 18.02.20 | 22:17

SDSM spreads fake news to hide Zaev’s involvement in the “Racket” case

Fake news about the resignations of VMRO-DPMNE’s interim ministers stemming from SDSM’s kitchen are the result of desperation and fear of major defeat, VMRO-DPMNE has said. The part adds that the fact that Zaev releases fake news means that the criminals are afraid of Culev and that the...

Macedonia 18.02.20 | 15:04

Culev: All Racket evidence was given to Spasovski, and then forwarded to Ruskoska

Interior Minister Nake Culev said that all evidence related to the Racket scandal is given to the state prosecutors, and is no longer kept in the Interior Ministry. Culev was asked about the evidence as it became apparent that the prosecution is uneasy about presenting it in full – prosecutor Vilma...

Macedonia 18.02.20 | 10:41

Racket trial: Prosecutors will present some of Kiceec’s private conversations

The Skopje court will hear additional recordings from a USB drive owned by one of the Racket defendants Zoran Mileski – Zoki Kiceec. The prosecution initially said that these recordings are not necessary for the case, as they are of personal nature between Kiceec and the other defendant Bojan Jovanovski...

Macedonia 17.02.20 | 23:37

Ruskovska: If the tapes are audible, we will present them in addition to the evidence

Prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska reacted to Aleksandar Nikoloski, VMRO-DPMNE vice president’s press conference tonight, who said that the tapes presented today at the “Racket” hearing were incomplete, meaning that there was only video but no audio. The tapes were presented as submitted to...

Macedonia 17.02.20 | 21:55

Nikoloski: We demand that the full recordings where Janeva meets Zaev be shown

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President, Aleksandar Nikoloski, held late Monday press conference referring to the published special investigative measures in the “Racket” case. He emphasized that it is clear that Zoran Zaev and SDSM top leadership are behind the whole case and that the racketeering was a coordinated...

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