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SKOPJE – Macedonia\u2019s former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has been told to report to prison on November 8 the latest, to serve his two-year jail sentence for the illicit purchase of a luxury Mercedes.<\/strong><\/p>\n TThe Criminal Court in Skopje confirmed on Friday that it has handed a \u2018referral act\u2019 to ex-premier Nikola Gruevski, saying he should start serving his jail sentence at the prison in Shuto Orizari, near Skopje, on November 8 at the latest.<\/p>\n The court in a press release said that a courier today handed the act to Gruevski in person, while he was in front of the court for another trial, \u201cafter a previous unsuccessful attempt to deliver it at a home address\u201d.<\/p>\n On October 5, the Appeals Court confirmed Gruevski’s two-year jail sentence in the case codenamed ‘Tank’, in which he was found guilty of illegally soliciting the secret purchase of a 580,000-euro Mercedes in 2012 from former Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska, which he planned to use for his own purposes.<\/p>\n The Criminal Court initially convicted Gruevski in its first-instance verdict in May.<\/p>\n In the same case, the Appeals Court reduced the sentence of another defendant, former assistant interior minister Gjoko Popovski, from six-and-a-half to four-and-a-half years in jail.<\/p>\n Jankuloska was sentenced to six years in jail earlier this month in a trial conducted separately because of her pregnancy. She has the right to appeal the first-instance verdict.<\/p>\n Gruevski has insisted that this and other ongoing court cases against him were a political set-up fixed by the new government led by the Social Democrats, SDSM.<\/p>\n He served as prime minister from 2006 to 2016. His right-wing VMRO DPMNE party was ousted in 2017 after a prolonged political crisis in which he and his close associates were accused of imposing authoritarian rule and involvement in corruption.\/BalkanInsight\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SKOPJE – Macedonia\u2019s former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has been told to report to prison on November 8 the latest, to serve his two-year jail sentence for the illicit purchase of a luxury Mercedes. TThe Criminal Court in Skopje confirmed on Friday that it has handed a \u2018referral act\u2019 to ex-premier Nikola Gruevski, saying he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[239,237],"class_list":["post-4469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gruevski","tag-macedonia"],"views":1435,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4471,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions\/4471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}