Skopje, 4 August 2022 (MIA) - Vilma Ruskovska, the Head of the Prosecution for Organized Crime and Corruption, has called on all relevant institutions in the country as well as all international institutions and embassies, most notably the U.S. Embassy and the EU Delegation, "once and for all to check the facts and make it clear who is fighting crime in this country and who is committing the crime." Ruskovska asks also the European Chief Prosecutor Laura Kovesi, if she is available, to come to the country and examine all cases of the Prosecution for Organized Crime and Corruption opened during her term, with a special focus on the cases on Rashkovski, Zeqiri, and the latest one on Muaremi... "Being a prosecutor for more than 34 years, including a prosecutor for organized crime since the establishment of the organized crime department at the Public Prosecutor's Office back in 2004, I will not allow a person, who is under investigation for his conduct, to tarnish my reputation I have been building through hard work for years," Ruskovska writes in a written statement reacting to yesterday's press briefing held by Financial Police Director Arafat Muaremi. The pressure exerted by a government-appointed official on prosecutors for organized crime, as well as the interference in their case, is appalling, according to the chief prosecutor. "If the government wants the state to be a real legal state rather than a legal state presented through PR stints in the media, the truth must come out. My question is, why key prosecutors that had prosecuted the cases against Katica, Remenski, Rashkovski and Zeqiri, and now are investigating several current and former top government officials, are being attacked," says Ruskovska. Due to the attack and the pressure on prosecutors in charge of prosecuting organized crime and corruption, she states, international institutions, as well as the U.S. and EU embassies should take serious measures because this is not befitting a NATO member and a country that has started negotiations with the EU where the rule of law is the imperative. "Macedonia is neither a dictatorship nor a monarchy. The will of some current or former government officials shouldn't dominate in order prosecutors to turn a blind eye to any crime, even the one committed by top echelons of the government," says Ruskovska. In the period to come, she notes, I'm prepared to share information publicly provided by the Prosecution for Organized Crime during the probe into the conduct of the person. "Let the public judge who is the criminal and who is fighting against crime... there are never two truths, there is only one," writes Ruskovska.