Three former senior defense officials are in detention as of Saturday under suspicion that they are responsible for the affair with the ARM (Macedonian Army) weapons, which the police confiscated 10 days ago. The investigating judge ruled that Nelko Menkinovski, former assistant to the defense minister and head of the Sector for Logistics in the Defense Ministry, advisor Viktor Raicki, and Colonel Ilija Skodrovski, commander of the General Staff Command for Logistics who was discharged following the confiscation of these weapons, should be detained.

The Interior Ministry informed on Saturday that it filed criminal charges for breach of duty against these three officials, who are suspected of damaging the defense for $1,017,600 through fictitious documents.

Two other senior ARM officers and the director of MZT "Special vehicles and equipment", the firm that exported the weapons, were also charged.