Rattle announces high profile arrests soon
(KTV)
The EULEX Prosecutor’s Office is investigating high profile people of political life in the country for organised crime and corruption. This was stated to KTV’s Pulse show by Jonathan Rattle, Chief Prosecutor in Kosovo’s Special Prosecutor’s Office. He did not mention names, but said that they were proceeding the cases.
Rattle admitted that there is corruption at high levels in Kosovo, and that people in power are using their power to become rich. According to him, the Kosovo Special Prosecutor’s Office has investigated 374 cases, including those prosecutions that are already known. According to Rattle, the most concerning cases are governmental corruption, organised crime in construction, procurement, highway, and more.
Rattle highlighted that Medicus case does not deal with Dick Marty’s accusations at all.
Rattle stated that post-war murders are being investigated as well.
Assembly to discuss Draft Law on Elections this Thursday
(Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
On Thursday, Assembly members will decide if Draft Law on Elections will pass. Preliminarily, the Draft Law was passed by the Legislation Committee, where MPs addressed their criticism. It was said that the Draft Law does not guarantee appropriate election process.
Criticising the Draft Law, the Assembly Speaker Jakup Krasniqi said that the Draft Law was not election reform, and that no substantial changes were made.
On the other hand, destruction of election material of 2013 local elections has started at the Count and Results Centre. The Central Elections Commission (CEC) Chief Executive Officer Enis Halimi said that this was the final stage of the last election process. However, election material of 300 polling stations will not be destroyed, as they are still subject to investigation by the State Prosecutor’s Office and Elections Complaints and Appeals Commission (ECAP).
Former MUP members from Anamorava demand equal treatment with their north colleagues
(Klan Kosova)
For several years in his life he served to Serbian Police as an inspector in Anamorava region, but when Belgrade and Prishtinë/Pristina agreed on dissolving MUP and transforming its members to Kosovo police officers, Predrag Djordjevic was declared redundant. Along with 800 of his colleagues who worked in southern part of Iber he was retired, which he does not find convenient. Djordjevic insists that he and others should be given the opportunity like it was the case with their colleagues from north Kosovo, who became Kosovo police members following a 15-day training course.
The former inspector, who is now leading the Trade Union of Retired Serbian MUP members in Kosovo, together with his colleagues, is ready to go through the verification process by authorities in Prishtinë/Pristina. “Not everybody is responsible. Recently Serbia employed 100 persons, but it fired them, while in the war time they were only ten or eleven years old. Let them verify us, so that we can know who was responsible for crimes,” Djordjevic said.
This Serb citizen from Anamorava, who lives in Belgrade and who rarely comes to Kamenicë/Kamenica, believes that his demands to join Kosovo Police will be met soon.
