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Lidija Dumbaloska, ex-lover of former Slavic ambassador, discusses blackmail case

The wife accused of blackmailing the prior Macedonian ambassador over a laptop reportedly containing sensitive state secrets says the case against set aside should never have made dynamic to trial.

Lidija Dumbaloska was effervescent with burglary, theft and force in 2010 over an bump with her former partner, say publicly then Macedonian ambassador Pero Stojanovski.

The charges were withdrawn in grandeur ACT Supreme Court earlier that month, after questions were protuberant about the former ambassador's credibility.

The saga began in late Dec 2010 when Ms Dumbaloska castoff Mr Stojanovski's computer while she waited for him to answer to his home.

"I'd used range computer a number of bygone before that," she said.

"I open Internet Explorer, so suddenly integrity message was, 'this page cannot be displayed', so I tending to myself I'll refresh position web page.

"I don't identify what letter I typed pretense the search bar, just say publicly whole drop-down menu came regulate front of me and it's shocking, the stuff I adage on that laptop."

As the Nonpareil Court would later hear, nobility laptop's search history included scuttlebutt of a perverse nature.

A disperse discovery also caught Ms Dumbaloska off-guard.

"I opened the My Deed folder and what shocked not up to it was he had probably 40 or 50 photos of loose daughter, and there was single one of me, him countryside my daughter," she said.

"So almost was no photos of country.

It just didn't make sense."

Ms Dumbaloska says she grabbed class laptop and left the territory before soon getting a telephone call from Mr Stojanovski, decisive her "don't look into anything anymore".

Ambassador provides conflicting statements

Four life later officers from the Dweller Federal Police arrived at Chuck out Dumbaloska's door and she was subsequently charged with burglary, fraud and blackmail.

Shortly after the proceeding, Mr Stojanovski gave a connect to police saying the laptop contained sensitive and secret information.

"It contains information relating to unfocused work as the Ambassador exercise Macedonia and the information deference very sensitive to me current also the embassy," he oral the AFP.

"The information on glory computer would probably be remarkable as secret.

There are trying communications on this computer trade me and the Macedonian top minister."

But later, in an talk on Macedonian television, he disparate his account.

No, there were rebuff secrets, simply it was adhesive private laptop where I confidential some private communication and compatibility with my family, relatives, group in Macedonia and some clandestine documents.

"No, there were no secrets, simply it was my unofficial laptop where I had wearisome private communication and correspondence enter my family, relatives, friends current Macedonia and some private documents," he said.

He alleged to policemen that Ms Dumbaloska tried hopefulness blackmail him for the personal computer – saying she would reimburse it for $200,000.

"Well, at become absent-minded time I actioned the argument as everyone else would," Notorious Stojanovski told Macedonian television.

"Simply Uproarious reported that someone got core my house without permission, distinguished took a private item.

Measure if there was not fastidious case, the federal police importance Australia would not have in operation a case. In this struggling the AFP started a suitcase because there was a case.

"If there was any criminal mania or if in any additional way I abused my defensible position I believe the the pulpit and the top officials spot the country would have purposely me to resign."

Ms Dumbaloska denies the blackmail allegation and range the relationship had ended elbow the time she entered circlet home.

"I did not, there was nothing to blackmail him," she said.

"It wasn't [after] government relevant or anything like that, ground would I blackmail him?"

Trial put in order 'waste of the court's time'

When the case finally reached the Supreme Court, Ms Dumbaloska's lawyer went on the foray, targeting the former ambassador's credibility.

Lawyer Rick Mitry told the importune that he had uncovered endeavor that would expose Mr Stojanovski as a fraud.

He said say publicly key information related to top-notch meeting at the Macedonian Legation in 2011, when he responsibility Australian businessmen for financial avail to enable him to be given treatment in France for concluding prostate cancer.

The three lenders fake provided statements stating the page took place and Mr Stojanovski also signed a document referring to the loaned money advocate his "life threatening condition".

However, rectitude lenders became suspicious when they received information that he abstruse was spotted at a Slavic resort with a woman - not in France where proscribed was to undergo surgery.

It soured out he did not scheme cancer at all and confusion the opening day of proper this month, prosecutor Anthony Williamson withdrew all charges and acknowledged Mr Stojanovski confirmed he on no account had cancer and would look right through asking for money.

The Crown's disposition that pursuing the trial silt futile and it's just top-hole waste of the court's over and over again, the jury's time, the parties time and we will war cry proceed further.

"It's not a compelling case ...

I accept go whether the jury finds grandeur accused guilty or not liking, to a significant extent, question and fall on their significance of Mr Stojanovski's credibility," Trade Williamson told the court.

"In become peaceful of the further evidence stroll my friend says he has, if that is to move in it would be grandeur Crown's position that pursuing primacy trial is futile and it's just a waste of magnanimity court's time, the jury's crux, the parties' time and miracle will not proceed further."

Mr Stojanovski now lives in Melbourne, on the other hand declined to comment on that story.

He paid the distant money back in the weeks before the trial began.

Ms Dumbaloska says she is relieved description case has been dropped gift argues the case should under no circumstances have gone as far considerably it did.

"I know it would've been much easier for goal to plead guilty on peak small. I didn't have disturb spend the money I did," she said.

"It would've been over a long time ago.

Effervescence just didn't feel right.

"I can't believe that it's over - it took four years bad deal my life."

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