A former interior minister, an ex-intelligence chief, and four other officials from North Macedonia were sentenced to between three and 15 years in prison Friday over an unauthorized wiretapping operation.
North Macedonia: 6 ex-officials get prison terms for wiretaps
Associated Press
SKOPJE, North Macedonia A former interior minister, an ex-intelligence chief, and four other officials from North Macedonia were sentenced to between three and 15 years in prison Friday because of an unauthorized wiretapping operation.
The surveillance scandal, which broke in 2016, helped topple the small Balkan country’s conservative government after it emerged that about 20,000 people, including opposition politicians, judges, and journalists, were targeted.
During a three-year trial, prosecutors identified former intelligence service chief Sasho Mijalkov as the lead organizer of the wiretapping program. Mijalkov received a 12-year prison sentence, and former Interior Minister Gordana Jankulovska was sentenced to four years.
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