Known businessman Arrested

Amir Azemi, owner of the company “Roni-Com”, has been arrested by Kosovo Police in co-operation with the Kosovo Tax Administration.

Kosovo's Tax Administration had announced that the action conducted in Ferizaj concerned tax evasion.

The Directorate of Tax and Intelligence Investigations in co-operation with the Kosovo Police today is conducting a action by which the search has conducted a location raid on Ferizaj City. The case in question is suspected of tax-concretional evasion for extinguishable transactions”, said the ATK short communiqué.

Kosovo Police stopper Azem has confirmed his lawyer, Haxhi Milaku.

He has said Azem was arrested in the early morning hours by Kosovo Police and ATK.

Milaku said his client's family and the lawyer had not accepted any information about the reason for Azem's arrest, nor his whereabouts.

When they took over the Special Unit with these ATKs they hid the man and didn't even know where the family was, and I looked for the prosecutor and the crimes and no one had any information about where they sent him. Dedication, Azem has been kidnapped without any information”, Milaku said.

He has said it's about a work already prewritten because it was before 2008. The company “Roni-Com” has been part of the large tax theft file that was broadcast on the Life show in Kosovo.

The ATK in her communiqué has not shown the name of the arrested nor the business name.
“The ATK has reported that the Department of Tax and Intelligence Investigations with authorisation of the Constitutional Prosecutorship at Ferizaj has been conducting investigation into the suspicion of tax evasion against a person who is owned by a tax subject and suspected of issuing bills with extinguishable transactions, as well as mediating between subjects”, is said in the ATK communique.

The company “Roni-Com” owned by Amir Azemin are suspected of extinguishable transactions.

“From the action of the raid carried out today, under the suspicion that we are dealing with extinguishing transactions, where through these transactions have been taxed, or has enabled others to avoid tax”, the ATK communiqué says.

During the raid, ATK says they have found other people's identification tools.

“In the quality of evidence, these documents and equipment have been seized: 3 laptops, 1 telephone, 7 bank cards, subject stamps, 1 copy of the identification of another person, 1 overall ATK state for another subject, 1 copy of the bank's status for another person, deals, bills, and other financial documents. Investigations concerning this case will continue, given the evidence provided”, the ATK communiqué said.