VMRO-DPMNE spokesman Naum Stoilkovski accused the newly appointed director of the Intelligence Agency Erold Musliu of appointing people from his wife’s NGO organization Nexus to position in the Agency.

This NGO, founded only two years ago at Musliu’s home address, operated on project activities with SDSM mayors and was promoting Stevo Pendarovski, who then appointed Musliu as Intelligence Agency director. The NGO says it worked on prevention of radicalization and de-radicalization of islamists, with Vasko Suttarov as project manager. Sutarov is now promoted to a top position in the Agency by Musliu, Stoilkovski said, adding that this is a conflict of interest that the Agency director appoints as his top assistant a person from the NGO his wife runs.

Pendarovski’s office said that it encourages the Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate this possible abuse of position by Musliu, but also demanded that the opposition not undermine the reputation of Macedonia at a time when NATO member states are still ratifying its NATO accession protocol.

Musliu’s appointment drew the ire of the coalition DUI party, which suspects him to be a leading leaker of embarrassing material against them, including allegations about collaboration of top DUI officials with Yugoslav intelligence, and the latest wiretaps leaks coming from an activist in Chicago.