Zoran Verushevski was the third director of the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), the domestic

counter-intelligence Counterintelligence (counter-intelligence) or counterespionage (counter-espionage) is any activity aimed at protecting an agency's intelligence program from an opposition's intelligence service. It includes gathering information and conducting ac ...

and security agency of the

Republic of Macedonia North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the n ...

Arrest

He was arrested in January 2015, and he is still under arrest by Macedonian authorities under suspicion of two crimes: espionage and assisting in violence towards representatives of the highest state organs. Opposition leader

Zoran Zaev Zoran Zaev (, ; born 8 October 1974) is a Macedonian economist and politician who served as prime minister of North Macedonia from May 2017 to January 2020, and again from August 2020 to January 2022. Prior to entering politics, he ran a privat ...

was also charged, on January 31, with "conspiring with a foreign intelligence service to topple the government" and foreign diplomats are also allegedly involved in the alleged

coup d'état A coup d'état (; ; ), or simply a coup , is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership. A self-coup is said to take place when a leader, having come to powe ...

.Documents show British Ambassador directly involved in Macedonia coup scandal
April 9, 2015. Macedoniaonline.eu, Retrieved May 16, 2015

References

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