Zoran Verushevski Зоран Верушевски | |
|---|---|
| 3rd Director of the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence | |
| Preceded by | Dobri Velichkovski |
| Succeeded by | Bojan Bojanovski |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Zoran Verushevski |
| Ethnicity | Macedonian |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Yugoslavia |
| Branch/service | Yugoslav People's Army |
Zoran Verushevski was the third director of the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK),the domestic counter-intelligence and security agency of the Republic of Macedonia.
He was arrested in January 2015,and as of May 2015 [update] he is still under arrest by Macedonian authorities [1] under suspicion of two crimes:espionage and assisting in violence towards representatives of the highest state organs. [2] Opposition leader Zoran Zaev was also charged,on January 31,with "conspiring with a foreign intelligence service to topple the government" [3] and foreign diplomats are also allegedly involved in the alleged coup d'état. [4]
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