Gruevski seeks asylum, Macedonia awaits extradition

As Macedonian news agency writes MIA, Gjergeli Djulias, chief of the Cabinet of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, did not find out where Gruevski has submitted the request and how he has arrived at the immigration and asylum service in Budapest, where he has delivered the documents and been heard by officials. He said Hungary has not received official request from Macedonia for Gruevski's extradition, but if it receives such demand, it will be taken into line with the laws.

In Macedonia, meanwhile, demand is being prepared with volume documentation for Gruevski's extradition, which, according to government spokesman Mile Bosnjakovski, will be introduced to Hungarian authorities in the coming days.

The justice ministry from competent courts collects full documentation in the case. It will be translated and presented to the competent Hungarian organs, Hungary's Justice Ministry respectively. In documentation, among other things, there will be reasoning why Nikola Gruevski should be extradited to Macedonia. It's about volume documentation, about 400 pages, but indiscriminately the number of pages, the request will be officially submitted to Hungary during these days”, Bosnjakovski said at the news conference in Government.

In parallel, two procedures are being implemented in the MPB in order to establish the way Gruevski has fled Macedonia. The internal control sector implements the procedure for possible involvement of police officials that they have already helped the Interior Sector Skopje fully confirms the mode of escape, as well as potential external persons who have helped it.

Following an informal series of media news about the leeway of Gruevski's movement, the Sector for Borders and Migration near Albania's State Police last night communicated that Macedonia's former prime minister has left Albania on the 11th of this month at 19:11 through the Haart-Muriqan crossing site, on the Albanian-Montenegrin border as a traveler to the car with license plates CD1013A, owned by Hungary's embassy in Tirana.

Albanian police, at which point there was no information through which the Gruevski crossing entered Albanian territory, also stressed that on the day Gruevski was on Albania's territory there was no arrest warrant from Macedonia or Interpol.

The Montenegrin Ministry of Internal Affairs also followed with confirmation that Gruevski has entered and left Montenegro on the 11th of this month, as well as that Montenegrin police in this case “have generally respected the legal procedures”.

Presequently, the Belgrade newspaper “Politika” communicated that Gruevski with false passports the night has crossed the border between Macedonia and Albania and illegally entered Tirana, where he was admitted to the Hungarian Embassy. On the first morning flight of the company “Malev” directly arrived in Budapest.

The Hungarian Embassy in Tirana yesterday neither confirmed it nor exposed this information. For television “Top Channel” from the short embassy responded that “did not comment on the processes in the course of”, given the fact that Gruevski's asylum request is being considered in Budapest.

The media previously announced that from the T system revision The IMS at the crossings has emerged that the one on Albanian territory has not entered through the official crossing, which leaves open the possibility that he would have done it illegally through the green zone, after what has gone to the Hungarian embassy in Tirana, where he has even sought asylum.

Regarding Gruevski's escape and scriptures on several media outlets that Gruevski has fled to Hungary with the Bulgarian passport, the Bulgarian Ministry of Justice was announced yesterday, while the Bulgarian Ministry of Justice stated that Gruevski has not submitted documents for Bulgarian citizenship and has not been given the Bulgarian passport.

For Gruevski and his departure for political asylum in Hungary yesterday, Macedonian diplomacy chief Nikola Dimitrov and his Hungarian colleague, Peter Cijarto, from the Hungarian Foreign Affairs Minister, informed that Syyarto told Dimitrov that Gruevski's retirement for asylum is legal, not political, and that Hungarian authorities will decide on international law.

The response to Gruevski's departure also arrived from the US State Department. Representative The UN for <x0-politicalo.eu” said the US should consider Gruevski to serve the prison sentence in his country.

“under judicial and transparent process Nikola Gruevski was sentenced by the Macedonian court for misusing official office and sentenced to two years in prison. The arrangement was confirmed by other judicial institutions. Completely, Gruevski is charged in four other criminal subjects as well. We consider that judicial procedures in Macedonia should continue, meanwhile, Nikola Gruevski to respond to Macedonia's constitutional system”, the UN representative says.

Gruevski's escape was also approved by the European Green Party, which in the statement accuses Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban of provoking conflict.

“Prime Minister Orban is a genius when it comes to finding new ways of generating rule of law, his latest success is to accept the political criminal from neighbouring Macedonia as refugee, contrary to the laws against refugees he himself imposed”, is said in the statement signed by Deputy Chairman Rajhard Butikofer and Monica Franson.