Former director of AKI tells why the opening of the presidency vault was tempted

According to the former director of the Kosovo Intelligence Agency, the Smaj Union, the frequent change of directors of the Kosovo Intelligence Agency is undermining this institution and endangering national security.

He has said it is difficult that it is AKI to function only with duty advisers as it is now happening.

I have served since the first day of the agency's establishment for six years of establishment of this institution and know the gravity and importance of the frequent changes that bring to this institution”, Smaj has expressed.

These changes are very disturbing, especially in the last five years, as far as I've followed, we have some five different directors who have been changed in just five years and this carries tremendous consequences to the institution, but it also carries very serious consequences to Kosovo's national security. The most vital institution of national security today is without leadership with a task leader, as we have done practice almost all the country's institutions currently are only with a taskman, Smaj has said.

Commenting on former AKI chief Kreshnik Gashi's dismissal, and media reports that he has attempted to open the AKI safe illegally, Smaj said the way these topics were addressed and how they were presented to the public was not only wrong but also dangerous to the country's security.

The management of national security information, with the least it has to be done is the way it's treated, is the way that as individuals or officials of both positions have launched it, national security is not treated in these forms, national security is very delicate and should be treated in all other forms, not throw the burden from one institution to the other”

I can talk about how practices exist, how transition processes are managed, transitions take place even in the more developed countries, that is, conveying information from an institution's title to the next title, but there are mechanisms and processes on how this is done, not through the media, it's not done with such an approach that affects even the institution that is managing classified information, but also the information producer in this case as it is AKI, so the way that it is approach to the problem is harmful to the security of the country<1x>

Smaj has said carrying AKI information from one president to the next is a regular procedure, and this should be done in the presence of an AKI official.

It's a practice, it's a procedure with that system that I built in AKI, of course I haven't made any discovery but I've got the best practices of the most powerful international services, is that the moment the institution's title changed, the institution that produces the information should make an investigation and a full record of information that happens at the moment of change, we've had a state of emergency because transfer and transport couldn't happen between the president and the president, the transfer that usually didn't happen to be able to happen.

The acting president, in the presence of an information producer, carries the information to his successor, is usually in the presence of an AKI official. There are individuals with access to classified information, not everyone can access this” information.

There are only three state positions, the chairman of the assembly, the prime minister and the president have access to information without security verification, all other institutions must first have access to this information, cannot anyone who can create access to this classified information even if he is official, if someone has produced another”.

According to Smajt, the attempt to open the presidency safe has not been made to obtain documents but to make it an ID of documents and a recording of information carried to the incumbent president.