Today, Macedonia has shown itself to be truly a progressive legal force in the Balkans, according to government-sponsored Makfax. After sentencing the former governor of the Central Bank Ljube Trpeski and the tycoon Metodij Smilenski to 4.5 years each in a Macedonian prison for embezzling more than 60 million USD of government funds, both remain free.
The criminal court in Skopje found Trpeski guilty of abuse of power as a former governor of the Central Bank, and the controversial businessman Smilenski was found guilty of conspiracy.
The verdict orders Trpeski and Smilenski to return around 20 million dollars to the state, around a third of the embezzled funds.
Trpeski remains free, waiting for "the verdict to come under force" and Smilenski's fled by using his Austrian citizenship.
Both the Prosecutor's Office and the defense announced appeals to the verdict. Now ain't that suspicious?
IN POLITICS...
Makfax (always impartial) also published an article titled, "We believe that Macedonia will recognize Kosovo soon." This is actually a quote from Crasniqi, the president of the Kosovar parliament. What on earth is Macedonia actually going to do?
ahhhh....
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