The former Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski, has just received another 9 years to his prison sentence.

Gruevski, who has been living in exile in Hungary for three years, is sentenced to a total of 19 years in absentia.

The recent sentence is related to an unlawful demolition of an object, a multi-million investment, that was ruled as politically motivated.

Former transportation minister Mile Janakieski was also found guilty and sentenced to 3 three years in prison. In March, a court in Skopje handed a suspended sentence of two years to Janakieski, over faulty procedures with the purchase of buses for the capital’s public transit company.

Another two officials were also sentenced to 4 years, respectively the former head of the Gazi Baba municipality, and a municipal employee.

The convicted officials will now have to share the amount due as compensation, around €11 million, to the owner of the object that was demolished.