PRIŠTINA -- EULEX chief Gabriele Meucci says that the anti-corruption efforts of the EU mission in Kosovo are being conducted according to the law.
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We guarantee to every citizen that we are working according to the law - we are interested in working against corruption, and we are working against it, Meucci told a press conference at the EULEX headquarters.
"We do not comment on investigations," he said when asked about the case of EULEX prosecutor Maria Bamieh.
The prosecutor has only been suspended, and it is not true that we are prosecuting her criminally, Meucci said.
He added that journalists who have been writing about corruption within EULEX are not being prosecuted either.
The EULEX chief commended the work of the international factor in Kosovo, adding that at least two investigations take place each week.
"We have worked much - the figures say that we had at least two investigations a week, and EULEX is investigating over 500 cases," he said.
Asked about dismissals of local EULEX staff, Meucci briefly replied that, besides local staff members, EULEX prosecutors and police officers have been dismissed as well.
The daily also reports that Jaroslava Novotna received a letter from a citizen that Flori received a bribe in the amount od EUR 375,000 from Nusret Cena. Novotna replied that “EULEX personnel has immunity from prosecution”.
Ismet Kabasi, former Kosovo prosecutor, could also not conduct any kind of investigation.
Novotna said that the provisions of section 3 and 5.5 of the Law on the Status, Privileges and Immunities of the staff of diplomatic and consular missions in Kosovo and the international military mission and their staff (Law No. 03/L-33), do not allow the possibility to have EULEX judge as a suspect in a criminal proceeding.
What a wonderful, democratic, right-based, law-abiding organisation EULEX is. In fact if we were to give out awards for truthfulness, EULEX would come in at a high second place, with HORSE SH..taking the number one spot on the podium.
(Goran, 31 October 2014 02:22)