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Macedonia 08.08.19 | 13:52

One of Janeva’s main prosecutors says she is shocked by the tape, again insists that “Janeva signed everything”

Lile Stefanova from the Special Prosecutor’s Office, who was directly charged with leading the “Empire” case against businessman Jordan Orce Kamcev, said that she is shocked by the publication of the tapes showing how Kamcev was extorted by Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13. Not only...

Macedonia 05.08.19 | 13:10

Special Prosecutor’s Office confirms that Janeva is on vacation

The Special Prosecutor’s Office informed that its disgraced head Katica Janeva is using her summer vacation. The SPO would not inform whether Janeva left the country, but she was photographed at a beach in Greece, with her son Lazar Janev. Flight risk? Katica Janeva reportedly photographed at...

Macedonia 30.07.19 | 15:58

Janeva already had several office computers formatted, the process was stopped only after other SPO employees got scared

Several of the computers used in the disgraced Special Prosecutor’s Office were already formatted, with the knowledge of Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva, reports the 360 Degrees investigative program. The formatting was conducted last week, after Janeva tendered her resignation following the arrest...

Macedonia 28.07.19 | 12:35

Lider: Major SPO related police operation planned for Saturday evening was eventually called off

The Lider news site reports that a major police operation was being planned for Saturday evening, but was called off. According to the site, which cites sources within the police, the likely target was the Special Prosecutor’s Office. We were called up for an important operation, but when we showed...

Macedonia 27.07.19 | 21:06

Janeva reportedly ordered that all traces of activities on the SPO office computers are erased

The 360 Degrees investigative news program reports that Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva ordered a “forensic level formatting” of the computers used by her office to delete traces of individual activities on them. The request was made after Janeva was pushed to announce her resignation as...

Macedonia 26.07.19 | 11:57

Alternativa wants Janeva’s assistant Fatime Fetai to be the next Special Prosecutor

The small ethnic Albanian Alternativa party nominated Fatime Fetai to be the next Special Prosecutor. Fetai was one of the three public faces of the Special Prosecutor’s Office since 2016, along with Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva and Lence Ristoska. Janeva was forced to tender her resignation...

Macedonia 24.07.19 | 13:12

Nepotism added to the series of corruption and racketeering allegations against Katica Janeva

Saso Vasilevski, the recently dismissed director of the lucrative MEPSO public energy company, was in the news yesterday as it was revealed that he purchased a significantly under-priced apartment from one of the defendants in a case launched by disgraced Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva, who is reportedly...

Macedonia 23.07.19 | 11:08

State prosecutors deny reports that Lile Stefanova, one of the top assistants to Katica Janeva, was arrested

Prosecutors denied the report that Lile Stefanova, one of the leading people in the now disgraced Special Prosecutor’s Office, was detained. The news spread quickly this morning, but is now revealed not to be true. Stefanova was reportedly question prior to Janeva’s resignation and the arrest...

Macedonia 22.07.19 | 12:21

Two SPO prosecutors offered to testify about the Katica Janeva scandal

Prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska, who enforced the resignation of Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva with her investigation into her alleged racketeering, said that two prosecutors from Janeva’s SPO office offered to testify. The two called in to Ruskoska’s office, and asked if they should come and...

Macedonia 21.07.19 | 13:44

Journalists and major media outlets who praised Katica Janeva to the skies, are now silent about her scandal

It’s safe to say that no Macedonian had so much invested in him or her, to build up her image at home and abroad, as Katica Janeva had. Despite her complete lack of prior achievement, less than mediocre academic record, and even her struggling to read from a pre-prepared script… …Janeva...

Macedonia 19.07.19 | 15:38

Zaev refuses to address mounting allegations of corruption in his SDSM party

During his press conference on Monday, Zoran Zaev refused to address the allegations of high level corruption within his SDSM party, which were raiseed after a major scandal erupted in the Special Prosecutor’s Office. Zaev was asked if two top SDSM officials, whose names are obscured by the press...

Macedonia 19.07.19 | 15:12

Zaev wants Vilma Ruskoska to be the new Special Prosecutor

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev announced that he will propose a law to the Parliament to roll the Special Prosecutor’s Office into the regular OJO office of state prosecutors, and to have current organized crime prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska run the department. Ruskoska brought down Special Prosecutor Katica...

Macedonia 16.07.19 | 16:06

SPO dissociates itself from Katica Janeva

Special Prosecutor Lence Ristoska, accompanied by colleagues prosecutors, said Tuesday that the actions of individuals must not jeopardize the integrity of the proceedings of this prosecution. Ristoska addressed the public on behalf of the entire staff of the SPO. She said that today she had no contact...

Macedonia 16.07.19 | 15:42

Lence Ristoska: Janeva’s resignation is not related to “Racket” case

We still do not have any information that the head of the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office Katica Janeva is involved in the investigation of the Public Prosecutor’s Office into the “Racket” case and that all cases should be cleared, which is in our interest, said Special Prosecutor...

Macedonia 16.07.19 | 14:21

Lence Ristovska to reveal why she was not active in SPO’s work!

Special Prosecutor Lence Ristovska, will reveal at a press conference why she has not been active in the work of the prosecution for almost a year. After Ekonomski Lider asked for a statement on this issue, she announced that she will hold a press conference on the racketeering of her boss Katica Janeva...

Macedonia 04.07.19 | 22:02

The “bombs” will be destroyed?!

It is not excluded the possibility that the “bombs” will be destroyed after the work of the SPO is completed on the charges that have already been filed. According to Justice Minister Renata Deskoska, a compromise with VMRO-DPMNE is possible for the “bombs”. In an interview with...

Macedonia 04.07.19 | 10:31

Latas found not guilty in the SPO case against him

Leading journalist Dragan Pavlovik Latas and his two brothers Srgan and Zvezdan Pavlovik were released from all charges in one of the cases initiated by the Special Prosecutor’s Office. Latas is an outspoken critic of the Zaev regime and the forced name change, who famously got Zaev confused to...

Macedonia 21.06.19 | 11:50

Mickoski says the Special Prosecutor’s Office is a partisan tool used to attack political opponents

Discussing the Special Prosecutor’s Office, whose mandate is one of the issues that some EU member states want resolved before allowing the opening of accession talks, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski said that this is a partisan institution used to persecute political opponents. VMRO made...

Macedonia 20.06.19 | 16:03

Nikoloski: SDSM wants to shut VMRO down using the special prosecutors

VMRO-DPMNE deputy President Aleksandar Nikoloski accused the ruling SDMS party of having a “master plan” to shut down the leading opposition party. The only charge initiated by the Special Prosecutor’s Office after the legal term that was given to it was the one aimed against VMRO-DPMNE...

Macedonia 30.05.19 | 17:02

SPO analyzes El Cheka’s bombs

The El Cheka social media account has been releasing new wiretaps, in which the main actors are the DUI officials. The Special Public Prosecutor’s Office is already analyzing the new so-called “bombs” that leaked on Facebook, Radio Free Europe reported. Regarding the new so-called bombs...

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