Berliner Zeitung: Albanian Mafia Gangs Rule in Kosovo
Albanian al-Qaeda in Kosovo and Metohija, on UN paychecks as Kosovo police since 1999. Continued terror of remaining non-Albanians in Serbian southern province.
German Intelligence: Kosovo is a Criminal Enterprise
An article published in the Berliner Zeitung, based on the information by German Intelligence Service (BND), confirms that leading Kosovo Albanian KLA terrorists turned politicians, Agim Çeku, Hashim Thaçi, Ramush Haradinaj and Xhavit Haliti are the heads of Albanian mafia gangs which rule Kosovo.
Berliner Zeitung portrays the current situation and the future of Kosovo as grim, referring to a thorough report carried out by the German intelligence in 2005.
Based on this report, Kosovo is ruled by activities of mafia gangs, in which ranks senior local and international politicians, who have no interest in a rule-of-law state, are involved. The goal of this network, the BND report says further, is to turn Kosovo into a suitable political terrain for their criminal activities.
Seen from this perspective, according to German newspaper, it will be difficult for the international community to create genuine rule of law structures in Kosovo. Even in the future, Kosovo “will have a key role as transition point of drugs towards Western Europe.”
These “multifunction persons,” as the German Intelligence BND calls them, are using their political leverage to control the underground forces in order to strengthen their personal interests and create links in politics, economy and justice. They cover the “entire spectrum of criminal, political and military activities,” and are mainly involved in the smuggling of arms, drugs and cigarettes, illegal fuel trade, people smuggling and extortion.
The BND warns such ‘multifunction’ persons are currently occupying the very top of Kosovo Albanian political institutions: PDK leader Hashim Thaçi, PDK senior official Xhavit Haliti and AAK chief Ramush Haradinaj (accused of the war crimes by The Hague). The current “Prime Minister” of the southern Serbian province, Agim Çeku, another indicted war criminal, according to the German Intelligence Service is also heading the criminal activities of Kosovo Albanian mafia gangs.
Çeku, Thaçi and Haliti according to BND control mafia gangs in the Drenica region, and they regularly meet illegally at Hotel Grand in Pristina to check on their activities.