North Macedonia’s former secret police chief Saso Mijalkov is waiting to hear his sentence in the criminal court in Skopje on 26, 2021. Saso Mijalkov, one of the most powerful players in the former regime led by ex-prime minister Nikola Gruevski was handed 12 years in prison for running a sprawling illegal wiretapping operation that plunged the country into a political crisis in 2015.
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