"Kosovo hotbed of crime, UNMIK corrupt"

A Swedish journalist has made damning comments about the work of the UN mission in Kosovo. UNMIK officers are linked to the local Albanian mafia in Kosovo, and the international mission, which is supposed to protect the security, property and rights of residents and set democratic foundations, has achieved exactly the opposite, claims a journalist with an influential Sweden daily, Dagens Nyheter, Maciej Zaremba. "Kosovo hotbed of crime, UNMIK corrupt" "Kosovo has become the hotbed of injustice, anarchy, crime, a European center of women and drugs trafficking," daily Politika quotes Zaremba, who spent six months in Kosovo. Zaremba alleges that in the eight years since it first set up its mission in Kosovo, the United Nations has spent EUR 22bn, and pointed out that the black market is still thriving in the area, while the province is on the verge of legal collapse. During his several month long investigation of the Kosovo system, Zaremba concluded that the overly paid UNMIK officials are not there to fight organized crime which is the worst evil in the province, "but that they rather feel responsibility only towards their own career, in which Kosovo is but an episode." "This is why the only thing which all of the seven Kosovo governors, that is heads of UNMIK, have ever mentioned in their reports are stability and progress, the Swedish journalist specified," pointing out that only in that way could they advance their careers.

"Kosovo hotbed of crime, UNMIK corrupt"

"Kosovo has become the hotbed of injustice, anarchy, crime, a European center of women and drugs trafficking," daily Politika quotes Zaremba, who spent six months in Kosovo.

Zaremba alleges that in the eight years since it first set up its mission in Kosovo, the United Nations has spent EUR 22bn, and pointed out that the black market is still thriving in the area, while the province is on the verge of legal collapse.

During his several month long investigation of the Kosovo system, Zaremba concluded that the overly paid UNMIK officials are not there to fight organized crime which is the worst evil in the province, "but that they rather feel responsibility only towards their own career, in which Kosovo is but an episode."

"This is why the only thing which all of the seven Kosovo governors, that is heads of UNMIK, have ever mentioned in their reports are stability and progress, the Swedish journalist specified," pointing out that only in that way could they advance their careers.