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Former director of the Macedonian Security and Counterintelligence Directorate, or Macedonian secret service, Saso Mijalkov, escaped shortly after a Skopje court sought house arrest before a verdict was announced in a case in which he was one of the accused.
Macedonian police could not find him at the luxury Marriot Hotel in central Skopje, which is owned by him, nor at his home. Law enforcement authorities have launched a search for him inside the country, but if this does not turn out to be successful for a short time, then they will also issue an international arrest warrant.
According to the media in Skopje, Mr. Mijalkov was seen on Sunday in the cafe of his hotel ‘Marriot’, accompanied by the former mayor of the Skopje Airport.
The ‘Target-Castle’ case, for which Mr Mijalkov is accused along with eleven other people, mostly former police officers, concerns the mass wiretapping of some 20,000 citizens of northern Macedonia, a scandal which published in early 2015 by Zoran Zaev, then leader of the opposition. The prosecution in the last court session demanded the maximum sentence for Mr. Mijalkov, but did not request the measure of detention or house arrest before the announcement of the court decision that is expected to take place on Friday.
Prime Minister Zaev said Monday he was desperate to escape. “We will seek responsibility after we have all the details about the case,” he told the media, dismissing public suspicions of any political agreement regarding the escape. Meanwhile, the leader of the Macedonian opposition VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickovski, has demanded the resignation of the government. “We have said that the mafia has its own state in Macedonia,” he wrote on social media.
The name of Mr. Sasho Mijallkov aroused a lot of fear while he was in charge of the secret service from 2006 – 2015. No media at that time dealt with his name even though there were reports of violations of the law, namely cases suspected of being mounted in court where secret agents could have been involved. Mr Mijalkov was known for the properties he owned in the Czech Republic before taking over the Counterintelligence Service. He has close family ties to former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who also fled to Hungary.
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