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Macedonia Police 'Destroyed Evidence of Illegal Wiretaps'

Macedonia's Special Prosecution, tasked with investigating alleged grave crimes on the part of senior officials, told a press conference on Wednesday that it suspects a former Interior Minister, as well as senior officials in the Secret Police, as part of a scheme that destroyed equipment used to illegally eavesdrop.

Macedonian Police Suspected of Ex-Minister's Torture

The Special Prosecution tasked with investigating high-level crime said on Monday that it suspects a former secret police chief and six other police officers of "torture and inhumane treatment" during Boskoski's arrest in 2011.

The head of the secret police on the day of the arrest on June 6, 2011 was Saso Mijalkov, a cousin of the ruling VMRO DPMNE party leader, Nikola Gruevski.