2 hours agoFrom the status shift, the state involvement and Vjosa Osman's sister how Periscope reported to “Ziraat Bank”
Periskopi(a month ago)
(a month ago)About a year earlier, Periscopi had reported to the Turkish bank operating in Kosovo “Ziraat Bank”, where in some revisions of editorials, it had emerged that this Turkish bank, through the CEC, had achieved the change of status from the foreign branch operating in Kosovo, had become an agricultural society.
All this Periscop research was based on documents and communications between BQKU, the Ministry of Commerce and ARBKU.
Kosovo's Central Bank had made an illegal decision that the Turkish bank operating in Kosovo “Ziraat Bank”, to convert status from the foreign branch that has operated in Kosovo to action society, reports Periscope.
In changing the status of this bank at the time, several institutions, such as BQKU, Trade and Industry Ministry, Roseta Hajdari, ARBK, and President Vjosa Osmani's sister Blinera Osmani, were included in the quality of Turkish bank lawyer “Ziraat Bank” that exercises in Kosovo.
Change of legal status has confirmed the bank itself in a post on their Facebook page. Bank, inform their customers they don't need any concern.
We have the pleasure of informing you that, since May 19, 2025, T.C. Z IRAAT BANKASY A. The branch in Kosovo has completed its legal transformation, and now operates like Ziraat Bank Kosova SHA, a stock society registered in the Republic of Kosovo”, the Turkish bank's announcement to its clients said.
The Ziraat bank's illegal transformation was legal for BQCH
They said we were called to the Law for Banks.
The CEC considered it legal and based on existing laws and regulations, the transformation of Ziraat Bank from the foreign branch into action society in Kosovo.
In Answers They Sent Periscope, the CEC relies on Article 12 of the Law for Banks, which, according to them, gives them the exclusive right to seek such a transformation.
We remember that ARBK in its official communications has ruled that such transformation is not allowed with the Trade Society Law.
But for BQCH the Law for Banks is “stronger” than the law on Action Societys, even though the deputy director of ARBKA, Lebibe Haliti, had found such a transformation of the Ziraat bank is illegal.
According to BQKU, the transformation has been initiated and guided by them as regulatory authority, due to difficulties in overseeing a foreign branch, and that this change has been made to strengthen financial supervision and stability of the banking market in the country.
