Civil society: NKEC will be compensated for 100 thousand euros a year for wages, even though as much as 2023 S.

Actually, it says in response, NKEC has five board members and an executive chief.

A Secretary of the Company and a Principal Financial and Treasury Official are expected to be employed this year. In total, all these employees will be compensated for about 100,000 euros a year, while the NKEC will not perform any work until 2023”, it says in response.

“for 4 years, which is the time until it is expected to complete T construction New Kosovo, Kosovar taxpayers will pay about 400 thousand euros only for NKEC” staff, said Burim Ejupi from INDEP.

Establishing spending at a time when guarantee of the project is necessary to vote in the Kosovo Assembly constitutes, among other things, ignoring the authority of the Parliament.

Besides the unnecessary establishment of NKEC, spending on Kosovo taxpayers' money is scandalous and incompatible with the reality of a project that is in big question. With that, the future of the project is still not clear, the Government of Kosovo is creating financial obligations that cause losses and ill-management of public funds from the state budget”, Agron Demi from the GAP Institute added.

In response it is said that in the course of successive spending, during the beginning of May 2019, the Ministry of Economic Development (MZHE) had opened the tender for “Independent Government Engineering and Independent Environmental and Social Consultative Services for T C Kosova e Re”, worth about 4m euros for the 6-year period.

The higher organisations reacted to the issue, and the same tender was cancelled after the opinion of the Anti-Corruption Agency, which has listed violations of the Procuration Law, respectively, the part that concerns rules and operational guidelines for public procurement.

Kosovo's “government has no right to create expenses for Kosovo citizens for a project that the day is being rejected by citizens, by the most creditable international institutions, by political parties and civil society. 400 thousand euros of these salaries are only part of the large costs that our budget will cover if the contract for construction of TC Kosova and Reque is established. We call on the Government of Kosovo to withdraw immediately from the contract to build New Kosovo TC and not add its financial burden. We call on the Kosovo Assembly to use parliamentary surveillance mechanisms, to take measures to prevent the increase of contract implementation costs until the same is voted in the plenary session. On the contrary, every day and more citizens are paying the cost for a contract, and the project, never asked for, concludes communiques from these organizations.