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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 he owns, nor at his home. Law enforcement authorities have launched a search for him inside the country, but if this does not result in success for a short time, then they will issue an international arrest warrant.
The ‘Target-Castle’ case, for which Mijalkov is accused along with eleven other people, mostly former police officers, is about the mass wiretapping of about 20,000 citizens of Northern Macedonia, a scandal which was 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 they are extremely concerned about this escape. “We will seek responsibility once we have all the details about this case,” he said, dismissing suspicions of any political agreement regarding the escape. Meanwhile, the leader of the Macedonian opposition VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickovski, demanded the resignation of the government, saying that in Macedonia, the state is in the hands of the mafia.
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