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(7 years ago)The Kosovo Intelligence Agency is not being comfortable with its directors. In the past four years, four directors of this agency have offered to resign from this position or have been dismissed. In January 2015, former AKI chief Bashkim Smaj had resigned after continuing his mandate [...]
The Kosovo Intelligence Agency is not being comfortable with its directors.
In the past four years, four directors of this agency have offered to resign from this position or have been dismissed.
In January 2015, former AKI chief Bashkim Smaj had resigned from this position, following the continuation of the second mandate by then Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and the president, since on February 4th 2009, the Smaj Union had been appointed the first director of the Kosovar Agency, writes Periscope.
The main reason Smaj was fired has been the case of minor Erion Zeka, for whom he had said he had returned him from Syria until he had nothing to do with the operation.
His return had been made by a Kosovo jihadist who had decided to abandon Syria. However, Smaj I had offered the resignation to former Prime Minister Isa Mustafa and President Atifete Jahjaga.
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.
Pristina's Constitutional Prosecutor, had launched investigations into former Agency chief Agron Selimajn, AKI inspector general Shkelzen Soopjanin, AKI Deputy Director Latif Merovci, the director of the Department of Inspectation, Gazment Isufun, and the director of the Department of Technical Supervision, Judi Hashan.
Among the works they allegedly performed was a suspicious tender for the former Prime Minister Isa Mustafa's boys firm.
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.
He was dismissed by Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj in March 2018.
His dismissal came after the scandal in the arrest and deportation of six Turkish citizens from Kosovo to Turkey, who were asked by the Turkish state as a member of Fetullah Gylen's organisation.
And after Driton Gashi, the president of the Republic of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, along with the country's prime minister, Ramush Haradinaj, on April 20th of 2018, have appointed Chief of Intelligence Shpend Maximun, who at the time held the position of Kosovo Police General Director.
But after a year and a half in this position, Shpend Maxun on Wednesday, November 6, 2019, offered to resign. Kosovo incumbent Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj announced the news.
The resignation of Maximu, who has nearly a decade in the AKI Police, by Prime Minister Haradinaj has been forwarded with “the medal of Skenderbeu” and with praise for professionalism and loyalty to the homeland.
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. /Periscopi/