The mystery over how Macedonia’s disgraced former prime minister Nikola Gruevski fled his homeland, days before he was due to be jailed for corruption, has deepened amid claims Hungary lied about having helped him escape, The Guardian reports.
As officials in the capital, Skopje, digested the news of Gruevski’s escape, Albanian authorities announced late on Thursday that he was aided and abetted by Hungarian diplomats.
“Gruevski exited Albanian territory on 11 November as a passenger in a car owned by the embassy of Hungary,” a police statement released in Tirana said.
Revealing the vehicle’s licence plate, it said the car was owned by Budapest’s diplomatic mission in Albania and driven over the country’s northern border into Montenegro.