Zaev hopes that Verusevski will alter his statement that the 2015 wiretaps were “heavily modified”

In his interview with the Voice of America, Zoran Zaev sought to paper over the shocking statement by his security adviser and former spy chief Zoran Verusevski, who said that the tapes Zaev used to seize power were “heavily modified”.

Let’s wait for the second court hearing to see what he really says. He is dissapointed with the events in the Special Prosecutor’s Office which converges toward the words he is using, Zaev told VOA.
He also denied that there is any doubt over the movement of the illegal recordings, after the two UBK agency officers charged with conducting the wiretapping said that they gave the tapes to Verusevski, but he denied that in court. Zaev says that the recordings were given to the SDSM party, not Verusevski directly, but that Verusevski was responsible for their handling.

Zaev used the recordings to spark protests and a major political crisis in 2015, which contributed to an armed attack by a terrorist group from Kosovo. Using the now disgraced Special Prosecutor’s Office, Zaev’s SDSM party and its international supporters were able to damage VMRO enough to seize power from it and embark on the imposed name change process. Meanwhile, some of the key cases which Zaev claimed are revealed by the wiretaps, as the death of journalist Nikola Mladenov, the alleged cover up of a police brutality murder of a youngster, and the 2012 Good Friday massacre, have collapsed publicly. The fall of the SPO office and now Verusevski’s statement only further contributed to having the entire operation, which Zaev labeled “the truth about Macedonia” as a propaganda campaign and a sham.