Balgarianovinite.com An alleged espionage scandal involving the office of the President of North Macedonia has been drawing significant media and public attention in the country since Tuesday.
The allegation was first reported on Tuesday by Sloboden Pecat, which claims that the editorial office received an anonymous report submitted to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Fight Against Organized Crime and Corruption, signed by a “group of Interior Ministry employees”, according to which data was copied and decrypted from the computers in the President’s Office, which is believed to have been intended for foreign intelligence services.
An IT administrator in the office of President Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova is reportedly suspected of allegedly copying, decrypting and storing confidential data, and of alleged links to a foreign intelligence service. According to Sloboden Pecat, other employees of the President’s Office and the Intelligence Agency are also suspected of involvement in concealing evidence, while senior government officials allegedly pressured the President and the Prosecutor’s Office to halt the investigation.
The Prosecutor’s Office began a preliminary investigation late last year, but has not yet received the findings of expert reports from the Ministry of Interior, the country’s media reported on Wednesday.
The investigation began on December 18, 2025, when the Cybercrime Unit of the Ministry of Interior received a message indicating illegal activities in the President’s Office from November 24, 2025.
“As part of the procedure, a request has been filed with the Basic Criminal Court for a search warrant for the computer system to determine the content that may have been illegally copied from the information system in the President’s administration. At the same time, orders have also been issued to extract data from personal and portable computers provided to the Ministry of Interior by that administration,” the Prosecutor’s Office said.
At the end of 2025, a request was submitted to the Ministry of Interior for the Cybersecurity Unit to analyze the evidence extracted, and a request was also sent to the Office of the President of North Macedonia for copies of security camera footage related to the incident and the period during which it allegedly took place. Earlier this year, the President’s Office replied that it did not have copies of the surveillance footage, as the Interior Ministry was responsible for processing and storing the recordings.
“To date, the Ministry of Interior has not yet provided information about any action taken regarding the release of copies of the surveillance footage,” the media said, quoting the Prosecutor’s Office.
“An analysis of all electronic evidence extracted from the seized equipment is underway. This is a large amount of electronic evidence, which requires a longer period of time. The analysis is in its final phase, and all evidence will be submitted in due course to the Prosecutor’s Office for an investigation of corruption and bribery,” the Ministry of Interior said in a statement, quoted by the media.
Asked about the scandal, Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski refused to comment, saying that the case is the work of “the spying scum of society” – structures from the offices of former politicians, while the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption, led by Islam Abazi, has, in his words, created panic in society. Suspicions of Espionage over Alleged Leaks from North Macedonia President’s Office Draw Attention 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-05-20 15:42:00 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law