Macedonian prosecutor indicts opposition leader in wiretap scandal


  • World
  • Friday, 01 May 2015

Macedonia's chief opposition leader Zoran Zaev talks to the media and supporters during a public gathering in Skopje March 10, 2015. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski

SKOPJE (Reuters) - The Macedonian state prosecutor formally indicted the country's top opposition politician late on Thursday over his role in a surveillance scandal that challenged the nine-year rule of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski.

For months Zoran Zaev, the leader of the opposition Social Democrats has been publishing wire-taps he says he received from a whistleblower.

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