Board member employs four children in Telekom for a month

Within a few days, all his children managed to be employed in one of Kosovo's public enterprises, where their father is nothing short of one of the directors of the Telekom Board.

Osman Ejupi was selected to be a member of the Telekom Board on March 29th of 2018, on a board that was named political, KTV reports.

A few months later, his four children joined Telekom.

The first to be employed was Artina Ejupi-Tolaj, who received the contract on June 18th of 2018.

A week later, Artina joined her siblings in Telekom.

On June 25th, the contracts were also obtained by Arjina Ejupi-Islami, Ardian and Arude Ejupi.

All are employed as sales agents whose salary is about 800 euros.

Kohavision has also tried to contact Osman Ejupi to ask him about employment or whether he used his authority to hire children.

“Please contact me in half an hour, because I'm driving”, he said.

But after that phone call, Eupee stopped calling.

Kohavision has also sent questions to the Kosovo Telecom management to take their official stance on employing Osman Ejupi's children, a member of the Telekom Board, but the same have not returned at all.

Osman Ejupi's name figures in the Business Record Agency. A few days before being appointed as a member of the Board of Telecom, on March 14th of 2018, had opened a pre-school institution and the authorized person is his daughter, Arjina Ejupi-Islami.

Even Telekom's main shareholder, the Ministry of Economic Development, is aware of such employment.

Minister Valdrin Luka himself has said in KTV that the number of employees -- since June 2018 in Telekom -- has increased for 200 people.

In fact, according to him, his reasoning from Telekom is that these employment has been made in the name of taking over the sale of Vala services.

Osman Ejupi has long been a member of the Kosovo Competition Authority Board.