Experts seek responsibility for property sales outside Kosovo

The former head of the Kosovo Economic Ode (OEK), Safet Gerjaliu, praised that the privatisation process has been conveyed with ineligible and misuse, both by local and international activists.

The economic process of privatisation has brought numerous challenges, in the first place the lack of rule of law and law has been the key element that Kosovo is much more damaged by this system than it has benefited. This best proves that 845 public and social companies are only privatised for 645m euros, the other is that we have about 30,000 hectares of land which are privatised for less than 90m euros. We also have more than 80 thousand employees who have remained unemployed as a result of the privatisation process, these better testify to the failure in this” process.

Gerjaliu has said no one has been asked to account for the misuse and sale of Kosovo property in countries in the region.

“We have had misuse and sale of Kosovo property in Montenegro, in Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. For these, no one has asked for accountability as to who stands behind the sale of these assets and how damaged Kosovo”.

Even Emrush Ujkan, executive director of the Council of Investors, thinks there has been a lack of rule and law in the privatisation process.

He has even said that the new government should consider reviewing this process.

The government is tasked with the mandate to take care of a process that will occur transparently and always conform to legal procedures. The government on the other hand must be careful what approach it will pursue and whether it will need some of the legal and procedural aspects to review in the privatisation process.

Wolfani has also talked about recent relatives and the purchase of hundreds of low-priced hectares, until he proposed that these cases should be investigated because they are in public interest.

I judge that there really was a lack of rule of law and it's one of the phenomena, but it's not only in the privatisation process and it's been the main determination, but also in the process of privatisation that recent relatives and the purchase of hectares is something that needs to be investigated, because it's in public interest that something like that should not happen”, Wolfan said.