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.