Former Kosovo MTI secretary caught 50kg of drugs on border

According to intel, Rate was arrested early this morning at the exit terminal.

During today's Police Directorate and the Directorate of Access and Customs have officially announced that their officials during the search of an Audi passenger car with Kosovo license plates, led by that Kosovo citizen, have found seven packs of marijuana.

The co-ordinated targets of the Police Directorate and the Directorate of Access and Customs this morning around 3:30 prevented the smuggling of plant matter suspected of narcotics weighing about 48.2 kg. The BR has been deprived of freedom under suspicion that it has committed unauthorized criminal work. Production, possession and distribution of narcotics. Further police-prosecution measures and actions in this case are under way”, the announcement said.

Former Trade and Industry Minister Vesel Krasniqi, on 9 September 2020, had made a decision to suspend the work of the ministry's Secretary General, Burim Rreci.

The reason for his suspension from this position, according to Krasniqi, is “negence” and “non-co-operation” on the part of the rec.

“based on the legislation in force, as well as on Mr. Source Rreci, placed on the slide of this decision. The measure is preventative and does not elaborate on the final outcome of the” decision, the decision signed by former minister Krasniqi, the Express follows.

There have been several inflows to this function. He was appointed to the position of MTI Secretary General in 2018, while Ramush Haradinaj was in the government. This appointment was opposed by several civil society organizations, but it was also opposed by the British Embassy because it had not met the terms for that position.

In the meantime, Radic was suspended by the MTI on August 29th of 2018 by then MTI Minister Bajram Hasani, on August 29th 2018. A week after that decision, then Prime Minister Haradinaj had freed Hasani from office on the grounds that such a thing has been requested by the Initiative.

A week after the dismissal of Minister Hasani, Rreci had returned to his previous position.

In reasoning about the decision to return to Rreci's work, there were said to have been material and procedural violations in the suspension decision.

Meanwhile, on November 11, 2019, Burim Raraci again becomes news after an incident in the ministry where he was engaged. According to information, Rreci was physically attacked by Arian Krasniqi, the son of Jakup Krasniqi's brother, former head of the Parliament and chairman of the National Council of Social Democrat Initiative.

After this incident, Krasniqi was suspended from work.

Meanwhile, Raracy had remained in the position of MTI Secretary until February 2020, when Government “Kurti” had placed him on the reserve list, along with several other secretaries.

However, this government decision “Kurti” was canceled as government arrival “Hoti”. In June, at the Kosovo government's regular meeting -- with MTI Minister Vesel Krasniqi's proposal -- was urged to return to Dreci's post.

The Secretary-General of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, scheduled for the government's decision number 1/26 of the 2901.2018, should return and continue working within the legal mandate within the Ministry of Trade and Industry”, MTI Minister Vesel Krasniqi had said on 22 June that year.