Rumours that state wiretapping led to insider trading were justified, top court says
By Emil Weber
On 19 July 2018 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) backed an opposition politician from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (now known as Northern Macedonia) for publicly raising questions over property deals and potential involvement in the sales of state property by the head of the Security and Counter Intelligence Agency.
Jani Makraduli (picture: Arno Mikkor (EU2017EE), Informal meeting of environment ministers. Arrivals Jani Makraduli (35103595893), CC BY 2.0)
The head of the agency was also a senior politician in the ruling party at the same time.
The judgement is highly important from the perspective of media as…
