Criminal Court

Marjan Ivanov, former manager of Euro Consulting, the company that has been engaged to supervise the construction of stretches of the cross-European highway corridors 8 and 10d in North Macedonia, is a suspect in a fraud investigation related to the former government's grandiose revamp of the capital, 'Skopje 2014', BIRN has learned.

An Iraqi court has sentenced two suspects to death for the killing of a Turkish diplomat and two Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) citizens in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil.

The 2nd Criminal Court in Erbil sentenced two people to death over the killing of diplomat Osman Köse and two KRG citizens and handed down jail time for four more suspects in connection with the killings.

North Macedonia's Special Prosecution, rocked by the arrest of head prosecutor Katica Janeva, vowed on Thursday, "Our fight will not stop".

This expectation is based on the legal acts and a bilaterally signed Agreement on extradition. Still, this will not be so simple, "Deutsche Welle" reports.

"Acting upon the request of the North Macedonian Foreign Ministry, the Criminal Court ruled that there was no basis for the extradition of Timor Morina to the Republic of Serbia", Basic Criminal Court in Skopje stated.
This decision was submitted to the Supreme Court of North Macedonia as it will have final word regarding this case.

Thirty people, including the former interior minister and police chief Mitko Cavkov, five opposition MPs, police employees and activists, went on trial on Wednesday, accused of storming Macedonia's parliament on April 27 last year.

A Thai court charged a disgraced former monk on July 20 with the rape of an underage girl, fraud and money laundering, after he was extradited from the United States.

Thailand is an overwhelmingly Buddhist nation with around 300,000 men in orange robes, but the clergy are beset by high-profile scandals.

Within the next few days, Macedonia's Court of Appeals will review the decisions made by Skopje's Criminal Court not to allow the detention of Gruevski and some of his associates.

The Special Prosecution, SJO said on Tuesday it will start filing appeals against the Criminal Court's decisions on Wednesday.

Recent sudden reassignments of judges from Skopje's Criminal Court are a politically motivated move designed to prevent reputable judges from handling high-level crime cases opened by the Special Prosecution, SJO, some judges say.

In a move that took many on Tuesday by surprise, the court's temporary head, Tatjana Mihajlova, reassigned some 20 judges from the court.

An indictment has been prepared against a provincial mayor on charges of "promoting terrorism on social media," according to a court statement.