Palevski to leave for Turkey: I traveled for health reasons and visiting a military archive

Ljupco Palevski, accused of killing Vanja and Pance today, gave a description of his trip to Turkey. Answering questions from his lawyer, Jovica Strashevski, he said he traveled to Turkey regularly for health reasons and personal interests.

« I went through a regular travel document through a regular crossing, » he said.

The visit to Istanbul, according to his statement, was also a visit to a military archive in addition to filming magnetic resonance imaging.

-The reason is a visit to a military Ahriv in Istanbul. I should have taken a copy and proof that there were no army in the village of Banica on May 4, 1903 and that Goce Delchev was not killed by the Turkish army, but by the Supremeists. The third reason I watched cards from Minsk and Moscow is my desire and intention to go to Moscow, but I have neither booked a card nor bought, but my desire and intention has not been realized, and the prosecutor is well aware of why. I was supposed to go to Moscow because of a copy of Novgorod’s Public Library from the Moscow Public Library – he said.

Palevski noted that his activities, after returning from Turkey, were the target of false media articles that he was on the run.

-The media statement, and is essentially a claim by the BPPO who briefed the media, that I am on the run is a brutal lie, and further, when we are already on this trip, I addressed the court this morning with a submission, to set the evidence from the Ranger Rover, a 5 -year -old crime, I have a crime, No connection to the criminal legal event we are judging, in which a single seven DNA traces were found, the PPO and the indictment declares that it was found on the spot and along with the shovel, canners, lubricants from the place of the event, and these were put together,

He shared that his arrival in Balikesir was on December 2, and immediately took a house on his name and his passport.

-After finding out that I was suspected, December 3, a search of my home, I, the tomorrow at 4, after I gave Stefan Dimkovski money for the road on December 3, and told him to leave for Macedonia immediately, and he himself planned to go on the road. At 4 After Stefan left for Macedonia, I returned the card for the internet day, and returned the keys to the house, although paid for a month in advance, I did not use the bus ticket to Istanbul. Prespa and left the house tomorrow, I went to a petrol station in Balikesir to think about how and what I should do, I went to a pizzeria near the gas station in the city to have lunch and expected the police to appear every moment because all portals in the Republic of Turkey were my picture.

The morning, as added, was taken to a Balikesir court on December 5 at the request of Balikesir.

-It was read what I was suspected of. I was asked if there was a possibility of torture and murder in the Republic of Macedonia. From shame on my own state, I said that there is no such opportunity, to be tormented and killed, because it is a procedure when asked if and how you want to be extradited – he said, adding that he was pleading for faster extradition, because, as he said, « I know who I have a job. »

Palevski expressed his views on the work of the investigating authorities and accused him of disrespecting his extradition and detention rights. He also dismissed claims that he had visited influential persons in extradition detention, calling them « classic fabrications. »

He denied that he was beaten and abused, praising the work of the prison police. He also said that after the hearing in December 2024, which he had defined the serial numbers of the weapons when he had been searched for an exemption of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, he had searched his cell six times.

Regarding the event from Demir Kapija, he said it was an event tied to this procedure because the inspector motorols from Negotino were registered.

-This is an event where my pistol was stripped of my permission, Walther P99, six months before the killings of Pance and Vanja. But it is very important because the insistence and the whole organization of that event is from Velibor Manev who insisted that Vlatko Kesishev and I was careful, while Velibor Manev and Bore Videvski are checking a cave that is in the immediate vicinity of the Vardar River in the Demir Kapija Gorge. Then for the first and last time I saw a Motorola who took out Velibor Manev from the car, one gave us to me and Vlatko, who stayed out, and the second took Velibor and fought when they entered the cave to check it. All that I am saying is recorded in a record of the Negotino police station and is part of the BPPO’s list of evidence, one of the prosecutors, – he said.

Palevski emphasized that this event is important because the time of retention of Demir Kapija and signing, as he said « some report on the seizure of weapons, identically responds to the time when at 7:10 we look at the BPPO video we watched when we arrived from Negotino, »

Earlier, he denied responsibility for the killings of Vanja and Pance, claiming that there was no motive for such crimes and was a victim of « moral assassination » organized by political and media structures. According to him, the charges are part of his discrediting attempts over his activities against corruption and money laundering, as well as the political engagement in organizing a referendum on the issue with Bulgaria.

The indictment states that Ljupco Palevski, Bore Videvski, Velibor Manev, Vlatko Kesishov and Aleksandar Gjorcevski, together planned the abduction of 14-year-old Vanja in order to force a member of her immediate family to give money for ransom. The abduction of the damaged Pance Zezhovski in Veles, on the indictment, was intended to force him to give their own « Citroen » vehicle to use the child to abduct the child in Skopje.

Juvenile Vanja and Pance Veles were reported missing on November 27 and 24, and on December 3, 2023, dead were found near Skopje and Veles.