Former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski spoke out on several latest scandals that continue to challenge the official narrative built up for the purposes of the 2015 colored revolution.
In a lengthy Facebook post, Gruevski speaks about the latest doubts raised over the veracity of the 2015 cache of wiretaps which Zoran Zaev and his SDSM party used to bring down Gruevski’s Government. Last week the former spy chief Zoran Verusevski, who was suspected of orchestrating the wiretapping, unexpectedly sought to distance himself from the tapes and acknowledged they were “heavily modified”, in order to fabricate false allegations against Gruevski.
Zaev, who was in New York when the news broke, desperately sought to assure the press that Verusevski, who is now his security adviser, will retract his testimony and stop undermining the legitimacy of Zaev’s 2015 propaganda campaign and colored revolution.
He keeps spreading his lies from New York 🤥. His security adviser Verusevski took Zaev out of his comfort zone, at least for a little while, but we see Zaev now claims that he “got the witness” to recant. One of the explanations offered by Zaev is that Verusevski is so disappointed after realizing that Zaev and Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva were engaged in high level extortion, that he decided to reveal that the tapes were “heavily modified”, Gruevski writes.
Some of the most important and consequential tapes used by Zaev were already revealed as fakes. This includes Zaev’s claims about the 2011 police brutality murder of Martin Neskovski and the 2013 car crash that killed journalist Nikola Mladenov. Another exceptionally emotional claim by Zaev – that he has wiretaps which will throw a different light on the 2012 Good Friday islamist massacre, is also being debunked as the tapes are being presented in court but with no new or dramatic revelations being made.
The former Prime Minister implies that the cache of wiretaps was not actually given by Zaev’s SDSM party to Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva at the official presentation ceremony in Skopje. Gruevski says that this was an event staged for the sake of the press, while the actual wiretaps were given to Janeva two weeks later, in one of Zaev’s factories in Strumica. According to Gruevski, this was done because Zaev was not sure that he has scrubbed all evidence of his own wrongdoing from the tapes, so needed two more weeks to go through them.
He needed time to edit them further and delete what could harm him. He didn’t want to give Katica Janeva material she could use against him. Two weeks before her own arrest in August 2019, Katica had one of her prosecutors Pelivanov go through the tapes searching for material she could use against Zaev, but it was in vain, Zaev took care of that years ago, Gruevski claims in a Facebook comment.
Gruevski warns Zaev that the wiretaps and security camera footage used in the major racketeering scandal that got Janeva detained and is now hanging over Zaev’s Government are different in character from the wiretaps Zaev and Verusevski used against Gruevski in 2015, because they are given to the prosecutors in full, and are likely also held by the intelligence agency of a neighboring country.
Zaev is running his final lap, in the final year before a technical Government is created and the voters wipe the floor with him in the next elections. That is why he is attacking the journalists who are revealing the evidence about his crimes. That is why his prosecutors are threatening one of the braver critical journalists from one of the best read news sites with prosecution. Zaev will apparently end his mandate ruling with terror, through the courts and the prosecutors, Gruevski added.
In contrast to the pressures Zaev’s regime is exerting against the critical press, Gruevski points to the collapse of yet another narrative from his years in office – that he allegedly had a journalist prosecuted for political purposes.
Gruevski also discusses the latest racketeering scandal, which involves extortion attempts against a major dialysis provider.
One of Zaev’s associates accused of being involved in the extortion, FZO healthcare fund manager Den Doncev is believed to have been the source of another leak against Gruevski in 2014, when he attempted to entrap the Prime Minister during a phone conversation he was secretly recording.
– I guess this guy, who comes from Zaev’s village of Murtino, liked me so much he wanted to offer me a million EUR for no reason. For what I gather in this new case, this guy was trying to prevent the sale of a Macedonian company to a foreign company, so he would be better placed to extort money from it. Now that things have gone badly for him, he is coming up with stories that I was allegedly the real owner of this company. Fortunately, the international company who was making the offer is a serious one, a major player, and has experience with this type of small time local crooks. It conducted additional investigations and determined that it is the target of an extortion attempt, and acted through its embassy. Doncev was exhausting the Diamed company by refusing to pay for its services, but at one point something happened that made him so happy, he decided to pay not only all the money FZO owed, but also to start clearing all future invoices as soon as they arrive, as if we live in Sweden. If I’m the secret owner of the company, was he doing this because he loves me so much?, Gruevski asks ironically, implying that the FZO manager Doncev collected a bribe and afterwards ordered a change of FZO policy toward Diamed. “He really is a perfect pair for Zaev, they come from the same village, and here I have to apologize to all the decent and honest people of Murtino I have met, but I wish they stay together for a long time to come, soon to be in the opposition. Although, I fear one of them will be on a flight to Australia as soon as Zaev’s Government is removed”.
In conclusion, the former Prime Minister and VMRO leader predicts that Macedonia will be allowed to open its EU accession talks, citing pressure from the United States against EU countries who want to block this move, and the plans by Bulgaria to withhold its claims for further down the road in the accession process, after the accession talks have begun. “This is all good news for Macedonia in the short term. But, it is just a delay. The demands, the blackmail, the risks, remain”, Gruevski concludes.
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