A court document obtained by BIRN reveals that two policemen in north Kosovo admitted in court to tampering with evidence at the crime scene where Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic was shot dead.

Kosovo police have arrested two police officers from northern Mitrovica on suspicion of having manipulated evidence in the investigation into the murder of the Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic.

A court in Kosovo on Thursday found Naser Kelmendi guilty of the "unauthorised possession with intent to distribute, sell and/or export/import dangerous narcotic drugs" and jailed him for six years.

The Basic Court in Pristina found Kelmendi not guilty of the murder of Ramiz Delacic, however, or of organised crime and other charges related to narcotics.

Rada Trajkovic, a former MP in the Kosovo parliament, claimed organised criminals are actively involved in politics in Serb-majority northern Kosovo, and accused Belgrade of turning a blind eye.

Former Kosovo MP Rada Trajkovic claimed on Thursday that Serb “mafia” groups have been openly participating in northern Kosovo politics since 2013, and warned that they control “life and death” in the mostly Serb-populated area.

Kosovo’s prosecutor Drita Hajdari said the country must support the new Hague-based war crimes court in order to fulfil its obligations to the international community.

Drita Hajdari told a debate in Pristina on Wednesday evening that Kosovo is obliged to back the new Specialist Chambers, set up in The Hague to prosecute former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters for wartime and post-war crimes.

Kosovo journalist Parim Olluri has been called a Serbian spy – and worse – on social media after he published an article criticizing the government's offer to award relatives of ethnic Albanians convicted of involvment in the 2015 gunbattle in Kumanovo, Macedonia.

The head of the EU office in Kosovo, Nataliya Apostolova, said that by stalling over the new special war crimes court and the border deal with Montenegro, Kosovo MPs are holding their own nation hostage.