Nikola Gruevski/Beta/UN Photo/Evan Schneider
Nikola Gruevski, the former prime minister of then FYROM (now North Macedonia), was sentenced in absentia in Skopje on Sept. 29 to 18 months in prison for violence against political opponents.
The Skopje Criminal Court found Gruevski guilty of ordering violence against MPs oft hen opposition party SDSM in the city municipality of Centar in 2013, while he was the prime minister and the VMRO DPMNE party leader.
Mile Jankieski, the other second defendant in the case titled “Slaps in Centar,” then close associate of Gruevski and the transportation and communications minister, received a one-year suspended imprisonment sentence with the probation period of four years. This ruling can be appealed to.
Earlier, Gruevski has been sentenced to two years in prison for an illegal purchase of a luxury Mercedes, but in November 2018, he fled to Hungary where he has been granted political asylum.
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