IKD: Demarketing is not the only condition for visas that is not fighting high-level corruption

Corruption according to the Kosovo Institute for Justice is another important factor, without whose struggle Kosovo can hardly gain visa liberalisation.

Ehat Miftaraj, from the IKD, says fighting high-level corruption has remained only in statements by state officials.

According to him, the findings of this institute show that only low-level corruption is being fought in Kosovo.

“The fight against corruption has turned into declarative war both by politics, but also by justice institutions like prosecution and courts. The IKD findings as a result of systematic monitoring of corruption cases testify that low-level corruption is fought in Kosovo, while massively high-level corruption is housed by”, he says of Periscope.

Miftaraj says 2017 is the year during which there have been mostly reports of corruption in the highest state institutions, but that justice bodies have closed their eyes, or even amnitated these cases.

“Viti 2017, will be remembered for an extremely large number of media reportings for corrupt activities by Government, Police and State Prosecutor, but that systematically the Kosovo police and prosecution in co-ordination, whether through non-action or closure of cases, are amnisors of these criminal acts”, Miftaraj says.

The impunity of top state officials, who are involved in corrupt relatives, according to him, mostly harms the people of Kosovo, who have remained isolated.

Such an approach has installed in Kosovo the culture of invisibility, which is undoubtedly largely damaging the people of Kosovo by denying the right to free movement and economic development”, Miftaraj said.

Otherwise, European Commission Director General for Neighborship and Negotia for Enlargement Christian Danielsson said that after meeting with Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj today, Kosovo has two more conditions to meet for visa liberalisation, the one for demarcation with Montenegro and fighting corruption.

According to him, if these two conditions are met, then it can be continued./Periscopi/