Tag: wiretapping
Macedonia 03.12.23 | 14:03

Equipment for monitoring of online communications has been used illegally for over a year?

The Government procured equipment for surveillance of online communications without an approval from the Intierior Ministry, warned VMRO-DPMNE in a statement. According to the opposition party, the equipment can tap any device and any telecommunications network. Even though the law provides that the...
Macedonia 17.07.23 | 16:33

Secret service coordinate its use of a spying software with Greece

VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament Brane Petrusevski accused the OTA security service of wiretapping citizens using the Predator software. According to Petrusevski, who cites domestic and foreign media reports about his allegations, Macedonian intelligence purchased the software in 2020 and was coordinating...
Macedonia 17.06.23 | 17:37

VMRO: The regime is illegally procuring new wiretapping equipment, as it prepares to pressure opposition members of Parliament

Officials from the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party are alleging that the Interior Ministry procured additional wiretapping equipment that is being put to use at a sensitive political moment. VMRO member of Parliament Brane Petrusevski said that the equipment was procured by OTA, a newly founded organization...
Macedonia 29.03.23 | 13:48

The Greek owners of “One” were illegally monitoring the implementation of court orders for special investigative measures, were they possibly wiretapping?

The state and its highest institutions, while VMRO DPMNE was in power, in the period before the name issue was resolved, were the subject of monitoring and documentation for several years by the Greek owners of the second mobile operator in Macedonia, analyzes “Plusinfo.mk”. Two employees...
Macedonia 26.02.21 | 09:15

Mijalkov in the dock as the court will reach its verdict in the 2015 wiretapping scandal

The Skopje court is due to reach a verdict in the first instance in the massive 2015 wiretapping scandal. Defendants are Saso Mijalkov, former head of the UBK security service, former Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska and a number of UBK and Interior Ministry officials. Mijalkov tried to flee the...
Macedonia 21.05.20 | 11:24

The government is silent about who is wiretapping and following the opposition

There is no response from the government after VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski and Vice President Aleksandar Nikolovski publicly revealed that they were being followed. It is unclear why the government is silent and avoids responding to such important claims that the highest representatives of the...
Macedonia 02.11.19 | 09:59

369 citizens were wiretapping targets this year by court order

OTA Director Zoran Angelovski in an interview with MIA says he is satisfied with the way the Operational-Technical Agency operates, which he says was established to prevent any misuse of electronic communications interception. He points out that there is no possibility of “bombs” or “Big...
Macedonia 16.04.19 | 20:21

SDSM hastily deletes the Android app it used to harvest data from voters

After VMRO-DPMNE and their presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska – Davkova alarmed the public that the ruling SDSM party has prepared an Android application which is being used for surveillance of voters, it was promptly withdrawn on the Google Play app store. The application named IZBORI...

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