Prosecution

Deputy Prosecutor-General Ivan Geshev remains the only Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) nomination for Prosecutor General, BGNES reported. According to Justice Minister Danail Kirilov, only one nomination is a historic event.

The Prosecutor's College of the Supreme Judicial Council elected Dimitar Petrov as the head of the Specialised Prosecutor's Office. So far, Petrov was the deputy head of the Specialised Prosecutor's office.

About the recent tragic event in Caracal, where a hitch-hiking teenage girl was reportedly kidnapped, raped and murdered as the authorities took a long time to act on her emergency calls, the Prosecutors' Section of the Supreme Council of Magistrates (CSM) on Monday said that "the legal truth and responsibilities should be proven and established on the basis of evidence and in no way under the

Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva told a brief press conference in Skopje on Tuesday that she was not involved in any way in the alleged extortion attempt which regular prosecutors started probing last week.

One of North Macedonia's deputy chief special prosecutors, Lence Ristoska, told an impromptu press conference on Tuesday that she and the rest of the Special Prosecution team remain dedicated to preserving the credibility and integrity of the institution's crime-busting work despite a scandal involving their boss, chief special prosecutor Katica Janeva.

The Prosecution for Organised Crime and Corruption confirmed on Monday night that it has taken the mobile phone of outgoing chief Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva to check for possible communications with two suspected extortionists.

At this rally held in 2008, the US Embassy in Belgrade was set on fire.
The preparatory hearing to be held at the High Court in Belgrade was postponed for October 7 due to the absence of one defendant and one defense counsel.

Supreme Court deputy prosecutor Anna Zairi has been selected president of the Union of Greek Prosecutors, it was announced Wednesday.
Zairi will be replacing Eleftherios Michailidis who is stepping down after reaching retirement age.

The Special Prosecutor's Office and the Directorate-General for Combating Organised Crime are investigating an organised crime group involved in usury, said the press office of the Appellate Prosecutor's Office.

On 20 and 21 June the Department for the Execution of the European Court's Judgments is organising a round table in Sofia on the Strasbourg Court's judgments against Bulgaria concerning ineffective investigations into violations of the right to life and the prohibition of torture and other forms of ill-treatment, including the need to ensure that investigations targeting a Chief Prosecutor are