The 15 year old scandal resurfaced again in Athens, in which current and former Greek politicians admitted to paying large sums of money to journalists and News organizations to spread Anti Macedonian propaganda, though without ever releasing the names of the recepients of these money. In Macedonia, different story. The Greek Government while paying their own journalists to spread propaganda and hatred against Macedonians living there at the same time (re)inventing history, Athens had also deposited large sums of money to Macedonian journalists and politicians to support Greece in the naming dispute.
Though this was evident since 1990, it went over the top after PM Gruevski took office. More than a dozen Macedonian journalists and several politicians support Athens' views and propagate immediate change of the country's name. In fact these people support whatever Athens' views are. How good are these bribes? Some of Macedonia's journalists (see list below) apart from supporting Athens, go in hysteria mode sending letters to EU organizations misinforming them of how terrible the Macedonian Government is to its people and neighbors!? Few journalists and organizations have been fined over 40,000 Euros each for deliberately printing false information after being challenged in Court by Government officials. The journalists paid the court punishment (on what salary?) and continued to misinform. Athens keeps tabs on who received the $130 million of bribes in Greece to spread propaganda on how 'greek' Macedonia was, and this information is of "high national interest", therefore not available to the public despite challenges from Greek paper (Eleftherotypia). In Macedonia, journalists and Newspapers on Athens' payroll are not attempting to hide this fact. Some of them go as far to drive around in cars bearing Greek license plates!
The following list is of Macedonian journalists and newspapers whose direct deposit accounts are on a one way street to the Greek Government. The list is well known, and has been recently published by a Skopje based paper Vecer and TV Sitel. Where does Greece have all this money available from? Paying 'Greeks' on average 1,500 drachmas ('award' went up each year) to report anyone who spoke Macedonian to a local police station since 1945. This kind of irresponsible spending eventually caught up to Athens...//Valentina Trajkovska
Mak Newspapers bribed by Greece
Dnevnik
Utrinski Vesnik
Makfax
A1 Television
Vreme
Spic
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| Mak Journalists, Policians bribed by Greece
Branko Crvenkovski
Vladimir Buckovski
Ljubomir Frckovski
Radmila Sekerinska
Nikola Gelevski
Branko Geroski
Vladimir Milcin
Ivica Anteski
Maja Bojadzievska
Dzabir Derala
Lidija Dimova
Gordana Duvnjak
Gjuner Ismail
Ema Markoska
Erol Rizaov
Ida Protugjer
Biljana Sekulovska
Slobodanka Jovanovska
Mariela Trajkovska
Goce Mihajlovski
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