Government Minister Kurti, who fought in Kosovo on monthly pay, is well paid

New Defence Minister Anton Quinn took office to lead with the Kosovo Army, heir to the Kosovo Liberation Army. But Quinn is known as a professionally engaged military in Kosovo for payment, where he received 1,000 marks a month for a full year, earning 12,000 marks for his commitment to the Kosovo war.

Today he took up the new post, the minister of defence of the Republic of Kosovo. From today, I will lead the Kosovo Army. This is Anton Quinn, a military professional and participating in the Kosovo war.

Thousands of boys and girls, women and men, had been engaged in the Kosovo war to join the Kosovo Liberation Army to fight against multi-year-old occupier Serbia.

Their whole commitment was voluntary, without compensation for money or other forms, writes Insander newspaper.

However, the new defence minister, who will lead Kosovo's successor sons and girls, was engaged in the Kosovo war, paying off every month as mercenaries do in various wars around the world.

Anton Quinn, being a military by training and schooling conducted in Croatia, was engaged during the war in Kosovo with payment from the then defence ministry, where the minister was Ahmet Krasniqi, a senior LDK official.

That he was paid during the war in Kosovo, Quinn has accepted it on his own, saying he received 12,000 marks back then.

I got a salary from July 1998 to the same month in 1999, a total year goes by about 12,000 marks for the whole war, so for those calling me a mercenary, my profit was 12 thousand marks. Twelve thousand marks I've had my monthly profit with my business in Zagreb”, Quinn said. But he has had a reason why he had agreed to pay to fight in Kosovo.

When it's funding for military capacity building, etc., there's a lot of money in it. And controlling money under conditions of war is very difficult. So that the military will not display ambitions and turn into a war projector, the minimum and its maximum is the pay the Ministry has given”, Quinn had said.

That Anton Quinn had been paid for the war in Kosovo, Kosovo President Hashim Thaci had first discovered during reporting on the parliamentary investigative commission for “Gylenists”, when Thaci and Quinn were severely crashed.

When you talk about war, don't sweat it, you've been in war. One leg is behind you in Albania, one in Kosovo. You are hi in Kosovo after NATO entered Kosovo. You fought, you were a warrior mercenary. You're a paid Bosco Bus. You must be ashamed. You the mercenary you fought there, one day you didn't have a war in Kosovo”, Thaci had declared during the commission's meeting.

Anton Quinn, the post of defence minister, took over from Rrustem Berisha. /