The Dangerous Fear of Causeds

During this week, Kosovo Police have conducted a broad police operation that has included the Pristina, Peja and Gjakova region. As a result of police investigations and actions, five people have been arrested, while two remain in police search.

The total value taken by suspects illegally is estimated to be more than 2.5m euros, while the overall damage caused is allegedly over 6m.

Meanwhile, in some videos, published this week in local media in Kosovo, the truth of which Radio Free Europe has not confirmed is seen several people suspected of criminal acts taking money and being called in the name of Kosovo Assembly Speaker Kadri Veseli.

The event is said to have taken place in 2012 - 2013.

Following his speech, Kosovo Parliament Speaker Kadri Veseli has responded, who has announced that he has deposited criminal speculation in the Special Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo because of, as “the mismanagement of my name by a criminal group” says.

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In a response sent to Radios Free Europe, Kosovo Police confirm that the Directorate for Investigation of Economic Crimes and Corruption during January (January) period has arrested eight people for carrying out guilty criminal acts.

While, according to the Kosovo Police during the past year, under suspicion of carrying out this criminal offence, 14 people were arrested.

<x0 mby the basis of reasonable doubts (sources of open/closed information), the Directorate for Investigation of Economic Crimes and Corruption, is operating with all its available capacities, within the framework of the Operational Plan Fajde, for combating criminal work”, said in response to the Kosovo Police.

To combat these phenomena, economic and security experts say competent organs must be more efficient.

Economic Affairs expert Naim Gashi in a proposal for Radio Free Europe says such criminal groups have existed in Kosovo for years, which, as a result of effective non-investigation of the justice system, they have been given the opportunity to strengthen.

Even now, after the recent Kosovo Police action in co-operation with the Prosecutor, Gashi says these mechanisms are investigating small groups, rather than large and specific groups, that are in almost all regions of the country.

Kosovo Police and Prosecutor's Office are unfortunately seeing this phenomenon in 20 years after it happened. Citizens know there are culprits, while only the police and the Prosecution for 20 years later has thought there is this extremely dangerous phenomenon for society”, Gashi says.

According to him, the consequences of this phenomenon are extremely negative because entire families are destroyed by certain criminal groups.

“We have two first damage destroyed families, citizens and businesses, while on the other hand the criminal groups are strengthened, and all of this has happened before the eyes of the Kosovo Police and Prosecutor's Prosecution. It is good that the prosecution is finally following these criminal groups”, Gashi says.

The inability for some expectations to take loans at commercial banks, Gashi adds, in a sense has been able to get citizens to take money out of these groups, but in numerous cases, these criminal groups exploit people and put them in debt and then blackmail them.

“It is impossible to take credit to commercial banks without mortgages or other things and commercial banks don't give cash in large sums, as the filekeepers give, without a reason or project to spend those means for purchasing real estate, building”, says Gashi.

On the other hand, Avni Islami, a security issue expert, tells Radio Free Europe, that the phenomenon of the guilty in Kosovo endangers the country's security and endangers citizens. He adds that the blames in Kosovo have not rarely become the cause of inciting conflicts among different individuals.

Kosovo's “Fenomene of the files has been expressed even before the recent war in Kosovo, but has continued even after the war ended even after the functioning of the banking system in Kosovo. As such, this phenomenon has endangered the safety of the country, as several times because of the files committed murder of”.

“Dukures have presented and the permanent danger parks for citizens' safety and thus security organs have taken action against hawks, but not all persons involved in these criminal acts have ended up in handcuffs. Part of them I doubt have been and remain connected to people of influence in the country and thus these cases have not been discovered even though competent organs have known such a thing”, Islam says.

Islam adds that security institutions in the country have not been very efficient in fighting this phenomenon, but that the police's recent shares in arresting people organised in guilty criminal acts are necessary.

Such criminal acts, such as the file, are punished according to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kosovo.

According to this Code, anyone who either accepts or contracts a substantial amount of wealth in exchange for service to the other person is fined and sentenced to imprisonment of 5 to 12 years, depending on the value of financial means loss or the realisation of property.