Ninja: Everything was under UBK control and VMRO-DPMNE paramilitary headquarters

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The attack on Parliament on April 27 was commanded by the VMRO-DPMNE paramilitary headquarters. “For a United Macedonia” was formed by VMRO-DPMNE and had fictitious leaders. At the protests organized by “For a United Macedonia” 80% were from VMRO-DPMNE, who provided all the requisites which were used. I have seen all the leaders of the protest at the VMRO-DPMNE headquarters at Kiril Bozinovski’s, said defendant Aleksandar Vasilevski otherwise known as “Ninja” in his statement today before the court regarding the incursion on Parliament on April 27th, last year.

He said that he was put to work in the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK) by Goran Grujevski, and then he was Nikola Boskoski’s “eyes and ears”. Both have now fled to Greece.

According to him, operational data he came by, said that the organizers of the protests were paid by VMRO-DPMNE.

Answering a cross-examined question, whether the leaders of “For a United Macedonia” Igor Durlovski, Bogdan Ilievski – Batman, Boris Damovski and Vlado Jovanovski from VMRO-DPMNE, were paid to protest or protested for patriotic reasons, Ninja replied:

“I didn’t see with my own eyes what they had in their pockets after they saw Kiril Bozhinovski, but from the operational knowledge of the Fifth Administration I know that they were paid by VMRO-DPMNE. After all, Nikola Boshkoski told me that the director of the UBK, Vladimir Atanasovski informed him on the matter,” he said.

He went on to say around 18 o’clock, he was at the party headquarters. There, he added, there were people from the parliamentary command-operational headquarters of the party – Brishkovska-Boshkovski, Bozhinovski, Janakieski, and Chavkov.

From here, Ninja pointed out, they coordinated the events that took place on April 27th.

Responding to cross examined questions from the prosecution, Aleksandar Vasilevski-Ninja said that UBK had been following Zoran Zaev, Zoran Verusevski and Oliver Spasovski, even though he was the interior minister. He added that political analyst Albert Musliu was also followed and had hidden cameras placed when he was not at home.

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