Actaza for Banjska: How did Stevitch and his company help Radichi?

It says that between January 1, 2017, and September 24, 2023, through his company RAD D.O.O., he helped Milan Radoichi hide the origin of the money.

According to the indictment, which the Special Prosecutor of Kosovo raised against 45 people on September 11th, and in which Radio Free Europe had access, Steviq consciously and via his business subjects and economic activities helped Radocchia launder money, transferring real estate to third parties, with the aim of hiding their origin.

Earlier, Stevic and his companies have received tenders for projects different from Kosovo, and recent years only from Serbia.

The latest tender of millions of euros received from Serbia a day after the establishment of the indictment in Kosovo.

In the indictment, Stevic is said to have been aware that Radojic's income stems from criminal activities and, therefore, there is a suspicion given that he committed criminal work “money laundering”, which is punishable with the Law for preventing money laundering and fighting terrorism financing.

The penalty for this crime is up to ten years in prison.

Despite the effort, Radio Free Europe failed to contact Stevitch.

Under the indictment, the trial of the preliminary procedure issued warrants for Stevic's arrest and, 20 August, 2024, issued a warrant for the arrest.

Based on the information that REL has, Stevic has long since not been found in Kosovo.

Who is Radule Stevic and what is known about his companies?

The businessman from Zvecani, Radule Steviq, has two companies registered in Kosovo . RAD D.O. and RAD P.T.P. ) while in Serbia under his name is RAD 028.

As early as December 2021, Steviq is, as is Radoic. sanctioned by the United States for involvement in international crime and corruption. His companies in Kosovo and Serbia are also under sanctions.

Company RAD P.T.P. In Kosovo, Stevic recorded it in April 2013, while in February 2018 he registered another one named RAD D.O.

As can be seen at the Business Recording Agency in Kosovo, the main activities of Steiqi companies are construction of residential facilities and other construction works.

Based on data published at the Kosovo portal “Open Procuration”, where information on public contracts can be found in Kosovo since 2018, Steviqi companies They have received about 5m euros from Kosovo's budget.

The services of his company have mainly exploited Serb-run municipalities in northern Kosovo, working according to the Kosovo system: Northern Mitrovica, Leposaviq, Zvecan and Zubin Potok.

Stevic and his RAD 028 company, which was registered in Serbia in January 2014, have received millions of euros for the realisation of various infrastructure projects from Serbia's budget.

Stevic also won the tenders, which mainly brought out temporary municipal authorities operating in Kosovo under the Serbian system.

Some of these organs were closed this year by Kosovo authorities, with the explanation that they functioned contrary to Kosovo's constitutionality and laws.

What is the record of money laundering?

In the indictment in Banjska case, Radule Stevic is mentioned as a businessman, who has knowingly participated in money laundering in favour of Milan Radojchiqi.

It also mentions companies that, by October 6th, 2023, reportedly owned by Milan Radojiciqi and Zvonko and Zarko Veselinovic: INCOP from Qureja, Novi Pazar Put, Betonerka Aleksinac, Velmortrans Plus and Dolly Bell Belgrade.

It adds that after the attack on Banjska, Radoic has been withdrawn as co-owner of these companies so that they have no legal consequences.

For this Radio Free Europe also reported October of last year.

Kosovo's Special Prosecutor praised that Radoic has gained great power through money laundering and has controlled Kosovo's north through criminal activities.

According to her, he has used this influence as <x0instrument to fight against Kosovo's constitutional rule, through terrorist acts and personal needs”.

The “all institutional support provided from Kosovo's budget for citizens in the north has ended up in the hands of accused Milan Radojicic, who has managed to create companies that seemed legal, and has received public contracts. A similar scheme has been developed in Serbia, but with clear intent to fight against the judicial order of the Republic of Kosovo”, it is said in the indictment.

It adds that money laundering has also been conducted through Radule Stevict-owned companies ( RAD D.O.O., RAD P.T.P. and RAD 028) and that Milan Radoicic, named as “leader of the terrorist group”, has decided on operations of his companies.

The money has ended with indictee Milan Radoiciciq”, said in the indictment.

However, the indictment does not specify how Radule Steviq “cleared before” in favour of Milan Radojici and how exactly those money ended in his hands.

Tenders from Kosovo budget

Stevick's companies won tenders in Kosovo until December 2021, when it was sanctioned by the US.

Thus, in August 2018, the Leposaviqi municipality signed contracts with Stevicz's company RAD P.T.P. for “the reconstruction and expansion of the Communist Administration building in Leposaviq”, worth about 345,000 euros.

That same year, the same company won the tender from the North Mitrovica municipality for “the reconstruction of the sidewalk and the Ivo Lolla Ribar Road north of Mitrovica”, worth nearly 330,000 euros, while about 325,000 euros were allocated for the <x2->building of the Sports Hall in North Mitrovica, St. II”.

Besides, the RAD P.T.P. company. He also received tenders for building dwellings for vulnerable persons, for procurement of technology, construction materials, or furniture.

Steich's other company RAD D.O.O. received, as well, valid tenders, opened by Serb majority municipalities in northern Kosovo.

One of the most valuable contracts was that of rebuilding Kral Petri Street infrastructure in North Mitrovica, which was connected in July 2020.

The North Mitrovica municipality allocated nearly 700,000 euros for these works.

The latest tender by institutions working in the Kosovo system, Steviq won in September 2021 for additional work in rebuilding the Zvecan sewer network.

Tents from Serbia's budget

Although after December 2021, when it was put on the American blacklist, it took no cents from Kosovo institutions, Radule Stevic continued “building” through Kosovo with money from the Republic of Serbia budget and with the company RAD 028.

According to the Agency for Business Registers in Serbia, Stevic secured access to more than 8m euros in 2022 and 2023, while data for this year is not yet available.

According to the public procurement portal in Serbia, the RAD 028 company signed the last contract on 12 September with the interim municipal authority in northern Mitrovica for procurement of construction materials for construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation and adaptation of household residential facilities for twenty municipalities on Kosovo territory.

There are ten Serb-run municipalities in Kosovo, but Serbs also live in environments belonging to predominantly Albanian municipalities.

This tender amounts to around 407m dinars, or about 3.5m euros.

Except Company RAD also won Beta Gradnja D.O.O. Kosovo Mitrovica, which is mentioned in the Kosovo Special Prosecutor's Act in the Banjska case.

RAD 028 won tenders worth all year long, and some of them have to do with building residential facilities for the needs of vulnerable social persons, which have been allocated about one million euros from Serbia's budget, then decorating a newly built cultural and educational object, building a warehouse, restoring a facade and building sidewalks in the Lipjan municipality, worth about 3m euros, and so on.

At the end of July 2023, Radio Free Europe reported that RAD 028 was getting jobs financed by Serbia's budget in municipalities south of Ibër, although in some of them almost no member of the Serb community lives.

In the first six months of 2023, RAD 028 received over sixm euros from the government's budget in Serbia.