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Macedonia 23.11.23 | 15:15

Top pro-SDSM prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska removed from office as part of the judicial power struggles

Vilma Ruskoska, prosecutor notorious for her close ties to the ruling SDSM party and her role in the campaign of political persecution against VMRO-DPMNE officials, was removed from position today. Ruskoska complemented the role of Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva in the campaign against VMRO, but she...
Macedonia 05.04.23 | 13:48

Prosecutor Ruskoska says she was offered promotion to do the case against Zaev’s chief of staff

In an interview, outgoing prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska said that she was removed after she refused to stop the investigation into Zoran Zaev’s chief of staff Dragi Raskovski. Ruskoska was used by SDSM to attack opposition activists and officials from VMRO-DPMNE but then started to go after select...
Macedonia 04.03.23 | 10:42

Disciplinary hearing held in the war between SDSM affiliated prosecutors

A disciplinary commission took statements yesterday from three prosecutors Vilma Ruskoska, Ivana Trajceva and Elizabeta Josifovska, who are being sidelined from the service after they began internal investigations against the powerful head of the Financial Police Arafat Muaremi. Ruskoska also initiated...
Macedonia 14.05.22 | 10:22

Is Ruskoska spreading untruths? Will there be accountability?

These are strange times we live in. Strange atmosphere, strange behavior, strange forms of persecution and strange manner of ruling the country. When someone is attacked by the Government, he is pilloried, attacked and criticized no matter what he does, even when the entire public can clearly see that...
Macedonia 22.11.21 | 16:56

Zaev’s top prosecutor wants to imprison Mile Janakieski again

Just five days after he was allowed to defend himself from the numerous politically motivated charges from freedom, former minister Mile Janakieski is facing a new call to be put into detention. Janakieski has been under house arrest for almost three years, and suffered a severe beating shortly after...
Macedonia 18.09.21 | 11:03

Prosecutor Ruskoska says she is investigating the crony contract to build the 19 improvised Covid hospitals

Organized crime prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska clarified that her department is only investigating the contract signed early this year to build the 19 improvised Covid hospitals. Ruskoska said that she is not interfering in the investigation into the catastrophic fire that killed 15 people in the Tetovo hospital...
Macedonia 10.09.21 | 09:25

After the catastrophic fire in Tetovo, prosecutor Ruskoska reportedly investigating the crony contract to build the container hospitals

Organized crime prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska has required to review the documents from the procurement contract to build modular Covid hospitals, SDK.mk reported. A total of 19 such units were built earlier this year, mainly located next to general hospitals in larger cities, to provide spill-over capacity....
Macedonia 21.07.21 | 13:43

Chief prosecutor Joveski defends his colleague Vilma Ruskoska from allegations that she was sharing confidential information with the key Racket trial defendant

Public Prosecutor Ljupco Joveski was defensive of his colleague and fellow Zaev regime supporter Vilma Ruskoska, after she was accused of involvement in the major Racket scandal. Ruskoska prosecuted the case, in which she stopped short of investigating Prime Minister Zoran Zaev. Now, one of the key defendants,...
Macedonia 20.07.21 | 16:51

Ruskoska’s attempt to compare incidents in US and Macedonia backfires with the first US sentencing

The prosecution in the second April 27th trial, over the 2017 incident in the Parliament, tried to use the recent storming of the US Capitol to is benefit. Prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska, who is seeking long prison terms against former VMRO-DPMNE party officials for allegedly organizing the protests whose...
Macedonia 06.07.21 | 18:58

Prosecutor Ruskoska edited a text message she submitted as evidence in the April 27th trial

During the April 27th hearing held today, the defense showed that prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska was editing text messages she presented as evidence. One of these messages, defendant Trajko Veljanoski said, was exchanged between him and his chief of staff, who was warning Veljanoski that the opposition is...
Macedonia 01.07.21 | 15:51

April 27th trial: The defense sees the new expansion of the charges as evidence that the prosecution failed to prove its case

Prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska used today’s hearing in the April 27th trial, which was supposed to be dedicated to closing statements, to introduce new allegations against the defendants. Specifically, she accused former ministers Mile Janakieski and Spiro Ristoski of organizing the protests from the...
Macedonia 01.07.21 | 11:38

Near the end of the April 27th trial, Prosecutor Ruskoska surprisingly announces that she is revising the charges

On the hearing dedicated to the closing statements, Prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska surprised the court and the defense with an announcement that she is revising the charges in the April 27th trial. There is still no clarity over what the revised charges will be. The defense protested this move by the prosecutor,...
Macedonia 07.06.21 | 18:42

April 27th trial: Prosecutor Ruskoska offered a man without a license as a forensics expert

Prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska did not offer much in the way of new evidence today, during a hearing in the new April 27th trial. Ruskoska made a rare personal appearance in the trial against former VMRO-DPMNE officials, who are accused of organizing the 2017 incident in the Parliament – she already...
Macedonia 20.05.21 | 10:38

Instead of fighting crime and corruption, prosecutor Ruskoska is trying to police fair criticism from the opposition

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski accused the Skopje Appeals Court of making politically motivated decision, after the court ordered a retrial in a slander case against the party. Organized crime prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska is suing VMRO after the party used her likeness in a campaign video for the...
Macedonia 07.04.21 | 14:40

Interior Minister Spasovski’s comment on the passport scandal is in collision with statements from prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska

An in interview this morning, Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski insisted that he was conducting a clandestine investigation into a group of Ministry officials who were selling passports to regional crime bosses. Spasovski began making this claim after the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party revealed that the...
Macedonia 06.04.21 | 11:03

Prosecutor Ruskoska will allow the Interior Ministry to “investigate itself” in the “passports for drug lords” scandal

Organized crime prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska said that she will wait on the Interior Ministry to investigate itself in the case of the issuing of travel documents to regional drug lords. Ruskoska was asked about the scandal by the press, after the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party revealed that a top Turkish...
Macedonia 26.03.21 | 14:42

Drug investigation against two Albanian mafia gangs leaked, the main suspects escaped

Organized crime prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska confirmed that the investigation into two gangs of the Albanian drug mafia were leaked and that only a small quantity of drugs was seized. The main bosses of the two groups have fled before they could be arrested, she added. A total of 13 people were detained...
Macedonia 01.03.21 | 22:24

Minister Maricic and prosecutor Ruskoska give conflicting timelines of events in Mijalkov’s escape

The drama around the escape of former security chief Saso Mijalkov got another layer today. In an interview, Justice Minister Bojan Maricic said that he was the first Government member who was informed that Mijalkov is planning an escape from the country – Maricic said that this was relayed to...
Macedonia 23.02.21 | 10:28

Prosecutor Ruskoska blames Interior Minister Spasovski for Mijalkov’s escape

While Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski remains silent about the spectacular escape of former security chief Saso Mijalkov, prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska is doing the rounds of media outlets to detail how the latest rule of law failure is not her fault but that of the police. Ruskoska in detail described...
Macedonia 11.01.21 | 18:00

Prosecutor Ruskoska confirms there is no hard evidence that VMRO organized the 2017 protests

Prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska acknowledged that there is no factual evidence that the VMRO-DPMNE party organized the United Macedonia protests on April 27 2017, during which the incident in the Parliament occurred. Ruskoska, who is one of the most reliable supporters of the Zaev regime in the judiciary,...
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