Haxhiu arm Martin Berishaaj in Croatia: Fighting Corruption

Justice Minister Albulen Haxhiu has participated in the “European Union Enlargement Future conference: Judicial and Basic Rights”. It also spoke of the rule of law, the fight against corruption, etc.

Haxhiu announces:

The “European Union Enlargement Future conference: Basic Law and Rights”

Before the ministers of the Western Balkans as well as those from Ukraine, Turkey, Georgia and Moldova, representatives from the EU, I reaffirmed the commitment of the Government of the Republic of Kosovo and the Ministry of Justice for an independent, impartial, efficient and professional judiciary.

I stressed that on the reforming road, the Republic of Kosovo has already begun to score results in rule of law, the fight against corruption, criminal and civil reform, as well as concrete results in addressing human rights.

In particular, I addressed the fact that our efforts are aimed at ensuring independence, accountability, integrity, quality and efficiency of the justice sector in our country.

I mentioned all the reforms we have undertaken since the beginning of the mandate and the progress achieved with emphasis on those that are related to property in the justice system, the legal package against organised crime and corruption, the addressing of war crimes and actions we have undertaken in order to address domestic and gender-based violence.

I announced to those present that the Ministry of Justice has had a total of 35 measures and obligations coming out of the PKZMSA, and that 28 measures are fully implemented and that for the other 7 obligations, it is working intensively towards finalisation and realisation of them.

This regional conference is being held in Zagreb-Croatia, organised by Croatia's Ministry of Justice in co-operation with the European Commission.

Ambassador Martin Berisha's case

There's a company in Slovenia called GEN-I. The company is one of the largest in the region to trade electricity. Media in Slovenia have found that money from Slovenian taxpayers has been distributed through this company.

The central GEN-I in Slovenia, the subsidiary opening in Belgrade, Sarajevo, Tirana and other countries. Later, the mother company is released before its branches for various reasons of financing.

That money, goes out of the Slovenian state and becomes easily manipulated. The company's filters wash them away by paying different people and allegedly one of them is Kosovo's ambassador to Croatia, Martin Berisha.

It is formally paid for consultancy, such as from GEN-I to Belgrade with inflated sums where it then withdraws the money from its accounts and restores it to Slovenia.

From there, the same are sent to various stock markets, mainly in Italy. The latest information is that Martin Berisha with part of that money has also financed the election campaigns of the Vetevendosje Movement and Lists Guxo.

Berisha is currently being charged by Kosovo's Constitutional Prosecutor for lying statements of property and by the Special Prosecutor for Money Laundering until the ambassador remains.

Slovenian media Prava published data on suspicious transactions, and it is found to be about 100m euros sent from GEN-I to Slovenia as a central company at various branches and branches, as in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Albania.