Following a warning from VMRO-DPMNE deputy leader Aleksandar Nikoloski that NATO countries have raised alarm about foreign spies working in the Macedonian Defense Ministry, Croatian news site Hrvatska Danas has listed some of them. Defense Minister Radmila Sekerinska denied that she is keeping foreign spies amon her staff, but the Croatian media outlet has now published names and specific allegations.

According to the news site, one issue is former Macedonian Army Chief of Staff General Miroslav Stojanovski, who is one of the closest advisers of Defense Minister Radmila Sekerinska. During the bloody break-up of Yugoslavia, Stojanovski was a member of a special forces unit of the Serb led Yugoslav National Army (JNA) which took part in the three months long siege Croatian city of Vukovar. JNA perpetrated massacres of croatian prisoners, killing at least 1.130 non-combatants.
Hrvatska Danas cites testimonies from Croatian survivors who saw Stojanovski personally take part in war crimes, an issue which was raised by Croatia in the past, when Stojanovski was Army Chief of Staff.

I would recognize that cold look and those eyes everywhere. He was then prisoners were taken to camps in Serbia. Stojanovski told me that “I will not get out of it alive”. It’s a disgrace that this person, responsible for the deaths and disappearances of dozens of people of Vukovar be received in Croatia with honors, a Croatian survivor is quoted in the article.

Back in Macedonia, where he joined the Macedonian Army and was promoted by SDSM appointed President Branko Crvenkovski, Stojanovski was also accused of deploying army units, including snipers, during a protest of the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party.

The Croatian site also names Dragan Nikolic, the State Secretary of the Defense Ministry, who it describes as the son of a JNA officer who is also close to the SDSM party.

He makes no discernible contribution to the Defense Ministry, other than making sure SDSM party loyalists are promoted, the Croatian news site reports.

Goran Vasilevski, head of the VSBIR military intelligence service, is listed by Hrvatska Danas as a person who was long denied a security credential in Macedonia because of his close ties with Serbian intelligence.

Vasilevski is a rarity in the Macedonian Defense Ministry in that he was writign for the paper of the Serbian Defense Ministry without receiving approval from his own Ministry, Hrvatska Danas writes, publishing Vasilevski’s pictures from when he was taking part in the SDSM led Colored Revolution protests, adding that “It’s doubtful that Macedonia can become a member state of NATO when its defense is so close associated with the defense structures of the Republic of Serbia, which is not a NATO member, or partner”.