Macedonian former PM flees to Hungary

“I am in Budapest and have asked the Hungarian authorities for asylum,” Gruevski wrote on his Facebook profile.

He wrote that he had received a number of death threats over the past few days.

Gruevski has been sentenced to two years in prison by a court in Macedonia for illegally buying a luxury Mercedes car worth 600,000 Euro during his term as prime minister. His passport was seized in 2017.

The Macedonian police issued a warrant for his arrest on Monday after he failed to report to the prison to start serving his sentence.