There was an indictment as Minister of Trade for Coal and Marketing Kurti returns Kusari-Lila to the old post

Mimoza Kusari's return to the helm of this ministry comes despite the fact that an indictment for the energy sector privatisation case had been prosecuted in court.

In 2021 the indictment was confirmed against former cabinet ministers Thaci 2 in the case of hydropower plants, since the Court of Appeals had rejected defence complaints about the rejection of Mimoza Kusari-Lila, Besim Beqajt, Dardan Gashi, Nenad Rashiqi, Flanza Hodza and Arben Djukka.

Former ministers were charged with “misusing official position or authority”, regarding the privatisation process of the Kosovo Energy Corporation's distribution (KEK). Appeals had also rejected the Special Prosecutor's complaint about the other indictees against whom the procedure had been suspended, praising that the act of first degree had been fair and legitimate and without substantial procedural violations.

For this occasion, four former cabinet ministers, Thaci 2, Besim Beqaj, Mimoza Kusari-Lila, Dardan Gashi and Nenad Rassic, as well as 15 other people were accused by the Special Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo (PSRK) of misusing their official position, in case of privatising the distribution of the Kosovo Energy Corporation.

According to the Special Prosecutor's Act of the Republic of Kosovo, founded on April 10, 2020, Besim Beqaj is accused of being head of the Government Committee for Privatisation (KQP), as well as Mimoza Kusari-Lila, Nenad Rassic, Dardan Gashi and Lorik Fejzullahu, in order to provide any other rich benefit to the person and to cause harm to the other person, have exceeded its competence.

According to the indictment, the same May 8, 2013, they unanimously voted that the hydropower plants, which generate electricity such as: The Lumbardide hydro power plant, Hidro power plant in Burim, Radovac's Hidro power plant and Hidro power plant “Dakance”, to be transferred to the Kosovar Company for Distributation and Energy Supply (KKDFE) and then privatised by the company “Limak-Calick”

The same day, the indictment continues, the agreement for imports, the transfer agreement, the supply agreement, the implementation agreement, the debt agreement and the signing of these agreements has been signed, despite the fact that the same ones have not had to be transferred and privatised because such a thing prohibits the Law for Electrical Energy Regulatory with the number 05-L-04, Article 35, par4.

 

 

According to the PSRK, these assets have been under concession, as well as the IFC recommendation has been that the same remain within KEK's framework, and with these actions the same have damaged the interests of KEK and the Government of Kosovo as shareholders, namely, only for monthly rent for the remaining period, the damage is 1,054,000.00 euros, because the same is to be paid to KEK and not to the privatisation company.

And other damage, according to P. The SRK is also the value invested in hydropower plants of 12,628,166.41 euros, which was not registered and presented as the value of pre-privation assets, but privatisation was made according to the value registered in 2003.

With these actions, P The SRK had charged these with the criminal offence of “the misuse of official position or authority”, by Article 422, pars 2 concerning Article 31 of the Republic of Kosovo's”, reportedly in reports at the time.