He and Stamboliski were convicted of approving an unplanned supply of spare parts for T-55 army tanks in late 2001, only a few months after a formal ceasefire had been negotiated between ethnic Albanian rebels and Macedonian security forces under the Ohrid Agreement.
On i Stamboliski osuđeni su jer su odobrili neplaniranu nabavku rezervnih delova za vojne tenkove T-55 krajem 2001. godine, samo nekoliko meseci nakon što je dogovoreno zvanično primirje između lokalnih albanskih pobunjenika i makedonskih snaga bezbednosti, u sklopu Ohridskog sporazuma.