MPB claims about the safe with classified documents in this ministry

A communiqué for the media reportedly after accepting Minister Agim Veliu's office, a state of regularity has been found in his cabinet and some of the classified documents with the corresponding level of ranking.

For this reason the Ministry of Internal Affairs has originally established a Commission, which has recorded the state of documents located in one of the cabinet's vaults.

This commission through the June 8, 2020, report has found that some of these documents have not been found in a state of physical security, according to standards as defined by law, and with the regulation for the Physical Information Security Classified.

After the commission report, which has raised concern, The MPB as the storage agency for these documents will act in accordance with the Law on Classification of Information and Security Verification and will invite competent authority, the Kosovo Intelligence Agency, to prove whether these concerns are reasonable or not, thus to prove that former Prime Minister Jelal Svecla's cabinet has preserved these documents under conditions and standards under the provision for Classical Security Information Equipment.

MPB along with AKI will take further steps in order to clarify this issue as provided by the Law on Classification of Information and Security Verification, which, at Article 50, stipulates that “any authorised host of such classified information, who does not defend classified information as required by this law, commits criminal acts and sentences to “imprisonment.

Based on norms all public institutions guarantee physical security and information security related to classified information in accordance with standards and procedures defined through these sublegal acts.

Otherwise, the safe with classified state documents bearing the stamp of privacy and which directly relate to national security was left open in the former office. Minister of Internal Affairs Jedal Svecla, where they should be under the lock.

Legally, criminal sanctions are presented not only to those who release it but also to those who do not protect the flow of these documents to the public.

It's about the safe in which the Interior Ministry's confidential documents are stored that contain important information on state security.

Regarding reports that former interior affairs minister Jedal Svechla's task officer, Jedal Svechla, has left the safe with classified state documents open, bearing the stamp of privacy and directly linked to national security, the deputy chairman of the Security Affairs Commission, Beka Berisha declared days earlier that these clarifications will be received by Minister Agim Veliu, who is expected next week to report before this commission.