Court Tapes, Macedonia's Murkiest Event

Out of eighteen chief editors of the leading print and electronic media included in the monthly opinion poll dubbed "Light-bleak", eleven voted for this event.

MRTV for several days in a row has broadcast You Tube videos from Boskoski’s 2004 testimony in front of investigators in the Croatian town of Pula in which Boskosi is reading a statement. It is not clear whether the statement is his or someone else's.
 
In it he says that it was not him but the late President Boris Trajkovski who ordered the police commander Johan Tarculovski into the village of Ljuboten, in the summer of 2001 during the short lived Macedonian armed conflict.

Tarulovski is currently serving 12 years after being found guilty by the International War Crimes Tribunal of war crimes in the village, were several civilians were killed. Boskoski has denied writing the statement. He was acquitted from all Hague charges.
 
MRTV has advertised the You Tube videos as “the newest videos from Boskoski’s betrayal''. The TV claims Boskoski stitched-up his subordinate Tarculovski when he was head of the Interior Ministry in order to save himself from indictment.

The country's Journalist’s Association has already slammed MRTV for showing the footages and for waging a hate campaign against Boskoski with its reporting.

Boskoski said he is being framed by his former party, the main ruling VMRO DPMNE.

The second place on the murkiest events list, with five votes, went to the head of the State Committee for the Fight Against Corruption, Mirjana Dimovska, who according to media reports at the same time is Director of the first program service of Macedonian Television, part of MRTV, and a mediator.

Dimovska recently stated that she does not see any conflict of interest in her work.

The opinion poll is conducted by the local Makfax news agency and NGO Transparency - Zero Corruption as part of their efforts in the fight against corruption. The survey has run since 2004.