Even though they are only a few kilometers away, the Ministry of Justice has not yet received responses from the Ministry of Interior, the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Basic Criminal Court in Skopje, where the proceedings against the convicted former Prime Minister and fugitive defendant, Nikola Gruevski, are taking place, because communication is via mail, sdk.mk writes, Portalb.mk reports.
Minister of Justice Igor Fillkov on April 14, after the victory of the candidate for the new government in Hungary Peter Magyar, who mentioned Gruevski In his winning speech, he said that he would request from the competent judicial authorities and the Ministry of Internal Affairs detailed information on current and outdated criminal cases, on rulings, on indictments, on the request to serve prison sentences, and on his current location, movement, and condition.
The requests were immediately sent by these institutions, confirm the competent authorities at the Ministry of Justice.
According to the law, the requests had to be sent by mail. Then the responses from the court, the Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs had to be sent by mail. When will the files for Gruevski, the Ministry of Justice doesn't know.
That information would help the Ministry of Justice write accurate data on the status of criminal cases against the fugitive. Gruevski in the extradition request that they will send to the new Hungarian authorities.
But, the Ministry of Justice now says that even if the answers arrive by mail, it is not known whether an extradition request will now be sent. Gruevski.
Prime Christian Mickoski yesterday he said that there will be no extradition request of Nikola Gruevski, because he has active asylum approved. On April 16, Mickoski said that if Gruevski returns, goes straight to prison, to serve full prison sentences for "Plots in Vodno" and "Slaps in the Center".
From 2019 to the time of the minister Renata Deskoska, no extradition request has been made to the judicial and prison authorities for the fugitive.
This move comes after the leader of the Hungarian Tisza party, Peter Magyar, who won Sunday's elections by a landslide, announced the extradition of the former Macedonian prime minister.
Nikola Gruevski has been on the run since 2018, when he was sentenced to two years in prison following a final verdict in the “Tank” case. Gruevski was granted asylum in Hungary based on claims that he was politically persecuted by the then-prime minister, Zoran Zaev. He arrived in Hungary in a suspicious manner, passing through three Balkan countries in cars with Hungarian license plates, before flying to Budapest from Belgrade airport on a government plane. In 2019, a court in Hungary officially rejected the extradition request from the Macedonian authorities. Other requests followed, but Budapest officially rejected all attempts by the Macedonian authorities to return the fugitive to his homeland.
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