Skopje, 9 September 2025 (MIA) - Following an investigation, the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Shtip has filed an indictment against the suspended chief of the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Skopje, Mustafa Hajrullahi, for five counts of mistreatment in performing a duty, as well as misuse of official position and authorization, the Shtip-based Prosecutor’s Office said in a press release Tuesday.

According to the Prosecutor’s Office, Hajrullahi, between September 2023 and October 24, 2024, as head of the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Skopje, threatened and carried out continuous psychological abuse against five women employed at the Prosecutor’s Office with the intent to inflict emotional distress through humiliating conduct.

The Prosecutor’s Office said on several occasions Hajrullahi abused his official hierarchical superiority to threaten the women, as well as to insult them and forbid them from communicating with each other or with other employees. The victims submitted written complains to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Council of Public Prosecutors of the Republic of North Macedonia, and the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Skopje.

After finding out about the complaints submitted by the victims, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, Hajrullahi summoned each of them individually to his office, where he continued the psychological abuse, coercing them to write statements claiming they had been manipulated. During this, he threatened to file defamation suits demanding EUR 100,000 in damages, telling them he could influence all judges and lawyers, that they had children to think about, and that they would lose their jobs.  

In order to protect the proceedings and the victims, the public prosecutor submitted a proposal to a pre-trial judge to impose precautionary measures requiring the accused to report periodically to a designated official or competent state authority, temporarily seizing his travel or other documents for crossing the state border, and prohibiting their issuance, as well as banning any approach, contact, or communication with the victims.

In June 2025, a disciplinary commission at the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of North Macedonia concluded that Hajrullahi and another public prosecutor from the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Skopje committed serious disciplinary violations, specifically that they deliberately and unjustifiably made major professional errors.

Following his suspension, Hajrullahi said he would appeal the decision at the Council of Public Prosecutors and claimed that he is the target of a witch-hunt due to proceedings launched over the bonuses received by those engaged at the former Special Prosecutor’s Office.

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