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Skopje sentences ex-defence minister for embezzlement dpa German Press Agency Published: Friday January 5, 2007 Skopje- A court in Skopje sentenced the former Macedonian defence minister Ljuben Paunovski to three-and-a-half years in prison for embezzlement, newspapers in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia reported Friday. Paunovski was sentenced in a repeat trial, after five years in courts, for a 1.5-million-dollar fraud involving military funds. The scandal was uncovered in late 2000. Sacked in 2001 by the former prime minister Ljubco Georgievski over the scandal, he was already handed a five-and-a-half-year sentence in 2003, but an appellate court ordered a retrial. Paunovski, who has not been detained, did not appear in court Thursday afternoon to hear the verdict. His father-in-law and several others were also sentenced to prison time for their involvement in diverting money intended to feed the army and military housing to private accounts. Paunovski's attorney said that he would appeal the sentence. Macedonia, the southernmost and poorest former Yugoslav republic, has been plagued by Macedonian-Albanian ethnic conflict, organized crime and corruption at the time of Georgievski's cabinet. A reform package brokered by the West in 2001 ended the ethnic conflict and paved the way for Macedonia to win the status of European Union membership candidate four years later. © 2006 dpa German Press Agency +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
