Former prime minister and VMRO-DPMNE leader Nikola Gruevski was sentenced to six years in prison for abuse of office in the case dubbed Talir 2 on Wednesday, transmits news agency MIA.
Former government secretary general Kiril Bozhinovski was sentenced to a two-year conditional sentence in the same case. The court also accepted the prosecutor’s motion for confiscation of the headquarters of VMRO-DPMNE and multiple party HQs across the country.
Gruevski and Bozhinovski were indicted of abuse of office by enabling construction company Beton-Skopje to build the VMRO-DPMNE HQ at a time when the company had concluded public procurement contracts with state authorities, public institutions or enterprises, which is contrary to the law on political parties, the law on financing political parties and the law on obligations.
