15 minutes agoNone of the AKI bosses took the mandate to the end
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The Kosovo Intelligence Agency is not being comfortable with its directors. This is due to the fact that in the last three years this vital agency for the state of Kosovo has changed three directors. In January 2015, former AKI chief Bashkim Smaj had resigned from his position after several years [...]
In January 2015, former AKI chief Bashkim Smaj had resigned from his position after several years of staying at the helm. Shortly after that resignation, former President Atifete Jahjaga and former Prime Minister Isa Mustafa had named Agron Selimajn at the helm of AKI.
Before becoming chief of AKI, Selimaj had served in this institution as chief inspector. But, even Selimaj could not send the mandate to the end, as two years later, exactly on January 27, 2017, through a letter he sought from incumbent Hashim Thaci and former Prime Minister Isa Mustafa, the release of AKI chief's post.
After Selimaj, President Thaci, along with former Prime Minister Mustafa, appointed Driton Gashi to the post of director of the Kosovo Intelligence Agency, (AKI).
However, even Gashi, like his two predecessors, Smaj and Selimaj, did not carry the mandate to the end after being dismissed today by Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, following the arrest and deportation scandal of six Turkish citizens from Kosovo to Turkey, who were asked by the Turkish state as members of the Fentullah Gylen organisation.
The AKI director is appointed by the president and prime minister together, with a five-year term, with the possibility of being renamed even for a mandate.
