Tahiri: Prime Minister Hoti through the end of Task Force anti-corruption is encouraging government crime

He said that with this decision, Avdullah Hoti became part of crime and corruption, news reports.

The task Task Against Corruption Task Force's performance, personally with an ad hoc decision, without an analysis, without basis and specifically for the prevention of fighting corruption, has jeopardised the status of all the substances that have been developing and inside this Task Force”, Tahiri said.

He said anti-corruption force that has extinguished Avdullah Hoti has seriously damaged the state even in proportion to the visa liberalisation process, but also with strategic partners from the US and EU.

MP Abelard Tahiri's full statement:

Dear Citizens

Honored MPs

The rule of law agency in Kosovo has fully imposed.

But today, we are seeing developments that exceed the very stagnation.

We are seeing developments that reverse commitment to rule of law and the fight against corruption.

In fact, we're seeing sophisticated organized crime, as was the case with 2 million.

And instead of taking measures to prevent the same, measures are being made to encourage the same.

Prime Minister Hoti, with a scandalous decision, has shut down the Anti-Corruption Force in the Kosovo Police.

What has moved him to do so is good enough to tell us for himself, for doubts exist and his reasons are not enough.

Having failed to reason on the decision, he has tried to reason on the matter.

But in both cases he has failed to hide the truth.

For this scandalous decision, Prime Minister Hoti has argued to us that the foundation basis for Task Force has been non-unconstitutional.

So surprisingly, before he takes any action to empower order and law, he takes action to stimulate criminality, and he does that in the name of the Constitution.

So before I deal with his motive and damage to the atmosphere for order and law, I want to deal with his reasoning.

The first, Task Force Against Corruption, is not against constitutionally, since it has not gone out of the constitution and law, such as illegal entities and over the law.

All those investigators who have been part of it have had procedures and investigations based on the Constitution, the Criminal Code of Criminal Procedure of the Republic of Kosovo.

They have been part of the Kosovo Police and have submitted to the law, accountability and hierarchy, like all other departments within the police.

This Task Force is simply formed within the best organisation of police operational work, and the need to increase anti-corruption efficiency.

The second, its establishment, has been a typical government decision for effective implementation of the fight against corruption. Prime Minister Hoti has had to know that politics cannot be involved in law enforcement operations, but that the government defines policies for its more efficient implementation.

Third, it was founded in full co-ordination with the most serious partners Kosovo, the United States of America and the European Union has had.

If it had been unnecessary, unconstitutional, and illegal, these partners would not have participated in this government policy, let alone have supported its development and advancement.

This was evident and is being seen for each day both in a practical and declarative way.

Fourth, it is founded to prosecute crime and corruption in a specialised manner, having the investigation of criminal acts mandated by the Special Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo mandate.

Maybe for Prime Minister Hoti, the Special Prosecutor is also against the constitutional, since the prosecution as entities exists, and there was a need for Special Prosecutor.

Fifth, the removal of the Task Against Corruption Task Force, personally with an ad hoc decision, without analysis, without grounds and ultimately for the purposes of preventing corruption, has jeopardised the status of all substances that have been developing and within this Task Force.

The sixth, Prime Minister Hoti has overlooked the fact that under institutional reforms, the functional Review of Order and Law Sector is taking place.

As soon as I was justice minister, we have launched this major reform that the Republic of Kosovo has undertaken to have full clarity of the competencies and mechanisms the state needs to implement the rule of law and fight crime and corruption.

The current justice minister has expressed the will to continue reform, while the prime minister has not only not supported him, but has already become the obstacle of this process, which testifies to the loss of Task Force.

So the prime minister has had so quickly the dissolution of this Task Force that not even a single meeting has been in advance with the carriers of this reform, at least to ask where this Task Force performance assessment stands.

And on this community of unconventional facts, he has found an excuse for his decision without basis.

Dear MP colleagues,

When you're in the opposition, you can talk about governance because you have arguments, and when you're in the government, you can't reason with arguments because you're talking about it.

Prime Minister Hoti's first job of order and law has been to dismantle Task Force that strengthens order and law.

This is no coincidence. This is a deliberate and unreasonable act.

The damage to this decision, not only are we looking to our partners in a declarative way but we will see them in practice too soon.

We will not only see in relation to our integration aspirations and in the visa liberalisation process, but we will also see in the bravery committed by criminal acts.

Therefore, I consider that Prime Minister Hoti's scandalous move to stave off the Kosovo Police Anti Corruption Force has jeopardised the security of the rule and law, jeopardised the security of investigators who have already been exposed as victims of a government decision, and have jeopardised the safety of citizens of the Republic of Kosovo.