Kurti with ministers and deputies accuse the Special Prosecutor of dealing with their charges

The arrests at the Ministry of Industry, Undertaking and Trade on Friday, which continued with the arrest of a businessman, prompted Prime Minister Albin Kurti to turn to citizens in a video to say that the government is responsible and fair” and that it has brought about “economic and democratic advances unprecedented in post-war Kosovo”.

“There is no corruption and misuse”, Kurti said, indicating that Minister Roseta Hajdari has done good work. He accused the prosecutor of failing to sue his ministers for the crime and corruption he says found in institutions.

Hundreds of official reports and criminal records have deposited our ministries for the crime and corruption we have found, but generally this has not impressed the State Prosecutor”, Kurti said.

The government's chief said that shares like Fridays are “attempts to change the” situation, and that “are in the service of the plan to return the former rotten and corrupt”.

According to him, prosecutors and judges who are engaged in such operations are of the old and corrupt political <x01>.

“Picamas, libels and their pompous shares will be heard over and over”, Kurti warned, as if to show that such developments could occur again.

Ministers, deputy ministers and deputies reacted in the same line.

LVV MP Armend Muja published a long Facebook post at 4:32 this morning. He said the prosecutor's “is explained from the context and there are basic errors”.

“Perhaps officials have been arrested without hearing. What if you miss tomorrow, after a week or a month? The motive for his great-great-time or combating VV's Puritanism is not just the opposition. P's hearing exhibitors LAN, which has sold agricultural land (2 euros of gold), has stolen grain subsidies and exhausted reserves by holding ders?

Deputy Justice Minister Blerim Sallu said what the Special Prosecutor has done is “mishandling legal mechanisms for revenge, and nothing more!”

Finance Minister Hekuran Murati, meanwhile, cited a criminal outcry the prosecution had rejected him about misappropriations in expropriations on the Kijevo-Zhaq road.

So all the evidence and facts are thrown into the water, because it was a case involving the old cast”, Murati wrote on other occasions.

Kosovo's government is involved in the Special Prosecutor's File, which is investigating dilemmas with state reserves in the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Trade.

The director of the World Bank State Reserve Division in MINT, Hafiz Gara, and the director of the European Integration Department and Policy Co-ordination at the same ministry, Irfan Lipovica, were arrested on Friday. With them, businessman Ridvan Muharrem of his strong ties to Vetevendosje Movement, including his proximity to Prime Minister Albin Kurti. All three, according to the Prosecutor, have caused more than 600 euros in damage to the state budget destined for state reserves.

According to the prosecution, the suspects had brought 52.5 tonnes less than the contracted amount of grain, while they had not brought any oil or sugar at all. The alleged damage value is estimated to be 601 thousand and 940 euros.