Dragan Pavlovic

The Special Prosecution, SJO on Thursday announced charges in 17 cases, demanding the arrest of former premier Nikola Gruevski, former Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska, former Transport Minister Mile Janakieski, former government secretary-general Kiril Bozinovski and Gruevski's former cabinet chief Martin Protugjer.

The Special Prosecution, SJO, which is tasked with probing high-level wrongdoing in Macedonia, launched the four new investigations at a press conference on Thursday.

Macedonia's politial crisis took a new twist on Wednesday, after a pro-government TV interviewer accused the head of the opposition Social Democrats of lying - and predicted he would end up in jail.