Kosovo's Prime Minister Isa Mustafa has accepted the resignation of his environment minister, who offered to step down last week after his name appeared on a list of officials being investigated on suspicions of abusing public money.

Ferid Agani was among 64 people, 44 of them doctors, who allegedly used their positions to channel patients to private hospitals in exchange for money. The public officials involved allegedly got kickbacks from the hospitals.

Kosovo's government is blaming what it calls "paramilitary anarchists" for setting fire to a car owned by a minister's family.

The government issued a statement Wednesday denouncing what it called "an unprecedented criminal attack ... aiming at creating an atmosphere of violence and fear."