Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, said today that information from relevant institutions do not support allegations that Minister of Agriculture, Nenad Rikalo, was involved in any criminal offence during the conflict in Kosovo.

Haradinaj suggested that certain persons claiming to have witnessed Rikalo mistreating Albanians during the conflict had a different motive behind their coming forward. “These people that are talking had usurped Minister Rikalo’s flat after the war and were seeking ransom to release it,” Haradinaj said.