Luka: We're analyzing 15 Telekom contracts that are not being implemented

Subtitles are done with professionalism. The problem is that the government has entered contractual relations without having the previous budget. The public procurement law imposes vehicle ownership when it signs the contract. The problem lies in standing up to the contract we have vowed. Much of the blame is also representation in arbitration. For example, the case with AXOS is the case we have won, but where we are represented by local companies we do not win”, he said.

Minister Luka said public enterprises are among the biggest challenges Kosovo has today.

“are the most harmful contracts that have been signed in these very companies. We are making a group of the best lawyers that Kosovo has, where there will be an analysis of Telekom for 15 contracts that have been signed and not implemented. They range from 600m euros to 10m euros. The idea of this is to clear Telekom of these contracts and see how we can rebuild Telekom and these are problems from possible ignorance and misuse. During July, the entire arrangement is held, and 6 months is the time when these <x1) contracts will be analyzed.

Infrastructure Deputy Minister Fehmi Mujota said the problem of Bechtel Enkas' contract is investment in small projects, reports EO.

As far as Bechtel Enkas' contract is concerned, it is what has had a process of no less than two years. The government has had a serious approach. If I were a minister, I would have given up projects that have less weight and continued with Bechtel Enkas' contract. The contract started in the right time and way. Even the current minister has made hasty steps with public statements”, he said.

Alban Hashan, from the Riinvest Institute, said the discussion focuses on 5 important contracts with which Kosovo could lose 170m euros, if the prosecution parties win the case.

The first “contrame is about Bechtel Enkan, another contract is the case of printing passports by an Austrian company, the Z-Mobile contract, the ACP Axos contract and the failure of Brezovica privatisation. 170 million would be the damage if the prosecution parties won the case. The good news or the bad news is that 65 million are being lost. Even though public contracts are in different sectors, we have managed to find common denominators. One of the denominators is the lack of professionalism in contract design, there are abuses of official duty, and lack of transparency”, he said, writes EO.

Korab Sejdiu, independent MP in the Kosovo Assembly, said the privacy clause should not be present in public contracts.

And in the arbitration clause, it should be obvious that it should be open. We are a public institution and cannot enter secret processes with public money. For me it's pointless that a minister makes a decision without making the opinion of a company that pays over 8 million euros”.