Goran Grujoski, the chief of the so-called 'Fifth Directorate' - part of the Interior Ministry, did not receive the invitation to appear for interrogation at the Criminal Court on Wednesday, Telegraf.mk reads.
According to Press24 news portal, after Grujoski learned via the media that the Special Prosecutor's Office has issued reports that he was allegedly unavailable to the persecution organs, he came to the court the following day on his own free will.
The fact that Grujoski will provide a statement for the court was confirmed by Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva, who said at a press conference on Wednesday that the former will be interrogated at the court at 1:00 pm.
On Tuesday, the SPO filed a motion to the Criminal Court for a search warrant of Grujoski's home, as well as for a his detention sentence.
"Given the fact that the person to whom the proposal refers to did not appear before this court, the judge, in line with the Law on Criminal Procedure, under which measures on securing the presence of persons and uninterrupted course of the criminal procedure on the persons are prescribed, has sent an invitation the person to report at the court's premises," the Criminal Court said in a press release.
After the person's hearing, the court will pass an additional decision to timely inform the public.
The Basic Court Skopje 1, a.k.a. the Criminal Court, also said in the press release that it has refused the search warrant motion in relation to Goran Grujoski's home.
The Criminal Court said it refused to issue the search warrant because the motion was imprecise. A precondition for a judge to act on the SPO's demand is to determine with certainty that this authority is competent in the concrete case, which would arise from the concrete content of the illegally intercepted communication.
"In relation to the search warrant motion that states that the order should be issued for the purpose of retrieving traces of criminal acts and items, the authorization of the Special Prosecutor's Office has to be first and foremost determined whether the concrete objects that are expected to be found during the search are related with the content of the illegally intercepted communications," the court's press release adds.
Also, the court has pointed that a detailed description on the items whose revoking was requested in the motion for the search warrant was not provided, but that the SPO used general terms of objects that can be found in anyone's home.