This is the member of the Initiative that brought 30 thousand euros to August.

Close to 30,000 euros has cost the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MASHT) a 6-day training of its workers at the “Meditran” hotel in Budva in Montenegro. This training from the administration field, which began at the end of September, was held in two groups, which have held three days of training.

Training has kept the Kosovar Institute for Management (KMI), which is the registered business on behalf of party member Ilir Rexhepi. Until about 1 year ago, Rexhepi has been manager at the institute. But he was forced to give up this position after the Anti-corruption Agency had opened the case against him, since he held several leadership positions in public institutions.

Times Ditore sources within August have shown that this minister has paid KMI 600 euros per person for pursuing this training from the administration field. On the list of participants in training, according to names provided by the newspaper, there were archives, receptionists, administrative assistants and translators of August.

Besides costing the Ministry 600 euros in training for 1 person, all those who participated in the training have received 26 euros a day from payday. The first group stayed in Budva on September 27th, 28th and 29th, and the second went straight after a few days --” -- said this August source for the Koha Ditore newspaper.

On February 27th of this year, Ilir Rexhepi has joined the party Social Democrat Initiative, whose party is also owned by Education Minister Shyqi Bytyqi.

Just two months after the presentation, August had chosen that coordinator to project E SIP, $11 million, which the Ministry previously received from the World Bank.

On May 9th, the paper had reported on the suspicious process of choosing him at the helm of this project.

The newspaper's sources had said that, for his election, the August assessment commission had made some changes to Rexhepi's CV to enable the appointment at the top of the million project. However, STAT Secretary Ekrem Kastrati had argued that Rexhepi had fulfilled the criteria and had not taken into account his political affiliation.

In addition to as a legalist in the KMI and co-ordinator of the World Bank and August project, Ilir Rexhepi holds the position of water pipeline member “Pristina” and is also legalist at AAB College. You can read the full article in today's daily issue.