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.

The Minister for Environment and Spatial Planning, Ferid Agani, yesterday met with the Mayor of Zvečan/Zveçan, Vučina Janković, and the Minister for Local Government Administration, Ljubomir Marić, with whom he discussed the project of construction of a returnee settlement for displaced returnees ‘Sunny Valley’ in Zvečan/Zveçan.