The former Prime Minister of Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski, did not show up to serve his two-year prison sentence, and the police are looking for him.
The general secretary of the leading Macedonian opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, Igor Janushev, said that the former leader of that party and former prime minister, Nikola Gruevski, for whom a warrant has been issued for failing to serve a two-year prison sentence, is not at the party's headquarters and that the police can do so with a warrant and check it out.
MIA reported that at last night's press conference at the VMRO-DPMNE headquarters, Janushev claimed that the search for Gruevski was a "classic abuse of the police for party-police goals" and "a chase and lynching against everyone who thinks differently," reports Al Jazeera.
"If the police have a warrant and really suspect that Nikola Gruevski is in the (party) headquarters, they are free to come and check with us. This is political persecution, nothing more, nothing less," said Janushev.
He stated that "there is no knowledge of Gruevski's whereabouts" and that the former Macedonian prime minister "has not personally contacted him for more than eight months".
It is stated that Janushev complained to journalists that the police were also checking his vehicle.
The Macedonian authorities issued a warrant for Gruevski, who was supposed to report to serve a two-year prison sentence on Monday.
Gruevski was sentenced to two years in prison for abuse of official position and illegal purchase of an armored Mercedes.
The warrant was issued after several unsuccessful attempts to serve Gruevski with a court decision on serving a prison sentence on Friday and today, when the deadline expired, Macedonian media reported.
Gruevski, by the way, does not have a passport and is under special precautionary measures, due to the trials being conducted against him.
Gruevski appears as a suspect in three more cases opened by the Special Prosecutor's Office.
His passport was confiscated on July 3 last year.
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