Kosovo-75 public officials with two and more jobs

Bland Office by KIPRED, has said that data for 656 public officials has generally been analysed, of which 60 officials have two positions, 10 officials have three positions, and 5 officials have four positions. An official at the Kosovo Council for Cultural Heritage has four jobs, while even in the CEC an official has four jobs.

In the Kosovo Assembly, seven officials have three jobs. Also, in the AKP an official has three jobs.

We have a reactor that's paid as a reactor, and so is a UPP professor, is teaching in high school, and then we have the same one teaching in elementary school. Meanwhile, the August papers did not send them to us and we had trouble identifying”, the Office said, the KSP reported.

Even Leonidas Molyqaj from Arise, said that out of 34 institutions, only 12 have responded positively to the demand for access to salaries and for additions of public officials.

She said it is disturbing that among these institutions, Kosovo's Assembly is one that has not returned answers to additions and to the salaries of MPs and all other workers.

This process of declaring property in Kosovo is facing numerous problems that have not yet been addressed. Like. It has been very difficult to see often that Kosovo Assembly deputies have received hires and extra payments for jobs they have done. Some of them have chosen to declare only one to enter the Assembly of Kosovo, where maybe they've even been hired, but for us as researchers, it's been very difficult to separate, whether it's a basic salary or it's an extra hire. On the other hand, there are officials who have declared only revenues, without pointing to the sources from which they have received the remaining”, Moliqaj said.

Vetevendosje MP Sami Kurteshi has said he is not equipped with the EU's findings that corruption is a vasmic disease, as this, according to him, is not in the genes, but the built system is corrupt and criminalised.

The disaster is that this system of ours, built like this, is going to punish people who get 5 and 10 euros, probably they can give no money to get out of jail, but it doesn't take those who receive 1 million 2 million, 5m euros because they pay. And that's what the thieves say in prison: The judge does not eat straw, eats money, is typical of the Republic of Kosovo. So it goes, we have a judge, a judge, who for the amount of about 60 million euros has been sentenced on bail for two and a half years, while a man who stole five meters of wood has been sentenced to months of effective prison. This is the justice system in Kosovo”, Kurteshi stressed.

Dardan Sejdiu, deputy from the PSD, has said the property is without an alternative and should still be done.

I see a banner after Blend, where he says "Veting without an alternative." I think this is the next step. So, a package of laws passed in the Kosovo Assembly is a good step, but it is insufficient to make sure that there is an adequate approach”, Sejdiu said.

While Billal Sheriff of the Social Democrat Initiative has said that this research done by nongovernmental organisations hopes that in a very short time all responsible persons will give answers and release those jobs and keep what they want only one.

And what needs to be done is that the competent authority, which is the Anti-Corruption Agency, is to send you a letter and tell you, you have to choose which job you want to hold and which position you want to issue”. This looks pretty easy”, Sheriff said.

Ahmet Isufi from AAK, considers that civil society has a major impact on the correction and change of the situation if the issues are addressed directly, properly.

There is not much need for numbers that need direct commitment at addresses where such elements really exist, of conflict of interest, of corruption and addressed directly”, Isufi said.

While, what has surprised LDK deputy Hykmete Bajaram, during these anti-corruption activities, are that the highly corrupt “persons, who have captured the state, have been taken to this week and are trumpeting against corruption”.

She, including herself, has said some Kosovo Assembly deputies are legalist even in the UP.

As far as I know, in laws which are applicable in this area, we all have the right to have a job as primary and second job as secondary jobs. A large part of the deputies, including me, being honest with you, are also legislate at public universities, but I think we can't be like that, as you call it, ésupremen, to keep five or six positions. But it is very strange, like in government institutions and other institutions, people today hold five positions. This is a call and is responsible for their superiors, and it is a call for the Kosovo prosecution to deal with these, taking into account the major unemployment we have in the country”, Bajrami said.

“Jeva Anti-Corruption” will continue until 14 December through different debates and activities.