Using the radioactive acceptor Ag-111 for perturbed gamma gamma-angular correlation (PAC) spectroscopy for the first time, defect complexes formed with Ag are investigated in the II-VI semiconductors CdTe, ZnTe, and ZnSe. The donors In, Br and the Te-vacancy were found to passivate Ag accepters in CdTe via pair formation, which was also observed in In-doped ZnTe. In undoped or Sb-doped CdTe and in undoped ZnSe, the PAC experiments indicate the compensation of Ag accepters by the formation of double broken bond centres, which are characterised by an electric field gradient with an asymmetry parameter close to eta = 1. Additionally, a very large electric field gradient was observed in CdTe, which is possibly connected with residual impurities.