The hearing for the “Titanic 2” case was postponed today, due to the request of one of the accused for Menduh Thachi to attend the celebration of the Albanian flag in Tirana (?!), accused Sasho Mijalkov had not been brought at all from the detention in the prison in Shutka to the Criminal Court. In addition to Mijalkov and Thaci, former members of the SEC, Bedredin Ibraimi, Aneta Stefkovska, Vlatko Sajkovski and Sasho Srcev are also accused in the “Titanic 2” case.
The hearing for the case of the three former directors of “Macedonian Telecom” was also postponed, upon the request of the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office, due to the size of the evidence material. The former directors in “Macedonian Telecom” Attila Szendrei, Rolf Plath and Zoltan Kishius were accused seven years ago, for concluding fictitious contracts for consulting and marketing services, damaging Telecom for almost four million and the budget of Macedonia for two million euros. After the long opposing of the Public Prosecution, with arguments that it is not connected with the illegal communication surveillance, the case was, nevertheless, handed over to the SPO.
Judge Lenka Davitkova postponed the hearing for January 25, next year.
Parliamentary Commission recommends Gruevski’s immunity to be terminated, this afternoon there will be a plenary session
The Commission for Rules of Procedures and Mandate-Immunity Issues with five votes “for” and none “against”, decided to recommend Parliament to terminate Nikola Gruevski’s mandate for six court cases, in which the Court Skopje 1 had requested detention for him.
The President of the Commission, Pavle Bogoevski, requested an investigation to be carried out for the omissions of the system: “As an MP, but also as a person, I am disappointed that our system did not manage to provide Gruevski’s presence for serving his prison sentence”. In addition, Bogoevski reacted also to the absurdity for Gruevski’s parliamentary mandate and MP salary to remain.
Parliamentary speaker Talat Xhaferi, scheduled the plenary session for 5.00 pm this afternoon, at which MPs are to decide on the termination of Gruevski’s immunity.
Janchev with support for Zaev against Mickoski’s obstructions
The dismissed Vice President of VMRO-DPMNE and current Mayor of the Municipality of Kavadarci, Mitko Janchev, at his request, met with Prime Minister Zoran Zaev last Saturday in a hotel in Strumica.
“We promised help against the obstructions of Hristijan Mickoski in the area of the constitutional changes, in the interest of the state. It will be a transparent process without any ulterior motives for anyone. I, as Mitko Janchev, expect for more MPs to join the process of constitutional changes, all with the purpose of improving the Prespa Agreement and strengthening the identity for the benefit of all the citizens of the Republic of Macedonia”, stated Janchev for TV 24.
Following accusation for pollution, cement factory “Usje” opens doors for citizens
“The company’s operation is monitored by the State Environmental Inspectorate and this institution regularly conducts controls of the company…the operations of the cement factory “Usje” are monitored 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, through an independent monitoring. The equipment used for the monitoring is from the manufacturer SICK – Maihak from Germany, whereas the maintenance and calibration of the instruments is performed by an external company, which has authorization from the manufacturer and is accredited from the Standardization Institute of the Republic of Macedonia (ISRM), is said in the announcement of the Cement Factory “Usje” AD Skopje.
From there they say that they are following the public’s concern in relation to the situation in the City of Skopje and consider “that we should all contribute to the solution, especially in locating the real causes, and the data clearly indicate that ‘Usje’ is not the reason for such situations”.
“Usje” invites all interested citizens, organizations and institutions on Friday, November 30, at 10.30 am, to come and to learn about all the processes in the company and to receive answers to all questions they find of their interest.
The Inspectorate of the City of Skopje, following numerous complaints and calls of citizens about the work of the cement factory “Usje”, submitted a request for inspection supervision to be carried out in accordance with the competencies of the State Environmental Inspectorate, since the problem is of public interest, and it does concern an installation that is subject to issuance of an A-integrated environmental
permit, the competence for inspection supervision is under the State Environmental Inspectorate.
Goran Jovanovski, on the other hand, wrote on Facebook that this week alone the application My Air had reached 100.000 downloads for Android & iOS, and 200.000 users of the web version!
“I am very proud of this figure, which means that part of the task of My Air is that the information on pollution is reaching the wider public! However, that is not the final goal of the application, but only the beginning. With My Air I want there to be pressure on the state institutions that have an obligation with our money to work on finding a solution to this problem. But there will also be pressure on us as citizens, who, like it or not, will have to start changing our own habits and getting out of our comfort zones if we want to solve this problem…I will be most happy when I will have to turn off the servers of My Air because of the air being clean and not having the need any more for this application. But until then, the fight continues”, wrote Jovanovski.
Panic: Bulgaria is closing the Agency for Bulgarians Abroad
Following the scandal with the illegal issuing of citizenships to foreigners, the Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Bojko Borisov, announced that the Bulgarian Government plans to close the State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad. “Here we have the MOI, the Ministry of Justice and the Presidency. These are the three institutions that will decide about this issue”.
Bulgaria’s prosecution last month started an investigation against officials in the Agency for corruption and abuses in issuing Bulgarian citizenships to foreigners. The President of the Agency and 19 officials were detained, but charges have been filed for only four persons.
According to Bulgarian media, there were lines of foreign people in front of the Agency for Bulgarians Abroad, among which also Macedonian citizens, who had complained that they cannot submit requests for citizenship due to the scandal in the Agency and the investigation for the corruption in it.
Demand to Zaev: Amnesty for all those in “Idrizovo”
After Zoran Zaev did not rule out the possibility for amnesty, convicts serving their sentence in the “Idrizovo” prison say that if he pardons people who attempted to kill representatives of citizens in the Parliament, then he should also pardon all of them.
“We are sure that you yourself know the situation in the prisons in the country. You are witness to how there were ‘punishments with recommendation’ from the previous government. Because of these and other reasons, we hope that you will accept our requests” the convicts of ‘Idrizovo’ write to Zaev, according to TV 21.
They request full amnesty, forming of a special office in which all those who have been wronged with an indictment and pronounced punishment, will be able to ask for consideration of the case, the indictment or punishments. The convicted persons claim that their demands are supported by their 500 and more families and also by convicted persons from other prisons in Macedonia as well.
SDSM: There is no amnesty for the violence of April 27
“There must not be and cannot be amnesty for those who had planned, ordered and carried out violence on April 27 in the Parliament of Republic of Macedonia. That is unacceptable! “,considers the ruling party.
“The anti-national VMRO-DPMNE demanded for all the perpetrators of the violence in the Parliament on April 27 to be freed from responsibility, for the dark events against democracy and against the citizens. It is the same matrix of Nikola Gruevski, through his pawn Hristijan Mickoski, put in function of defending the criminal policies of the regime that brought Macedonia bad things, divisions, violence, endangerment of human rights, destroying of democracy and a strike to freedom”, says SDSM.
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