Haradinaj, Schook and Walker in Kosovo privatization
The main participants in the privatization of socially and privately owned enterprises in Kosovo will be the former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (OVK) Ramus Haradinaj, former UNMIK deputy chief Steven Schook and former chief of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) mission William Walker, the internet portal Inner City Press reports.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Thursday, March 26, 2009
The portal, which follows the work of the UN in New York, states that Kosovo authorities have taken over the Kosovo Trust Agency from the UN, which was confirmed by Kosovo Foreign Minister Skender Hiseni.
The current UNMIK Chief in Kosovo Lamberto Zannier told the Inner City Press that he was not aware of any UN rules concerning former UNMIK officials benefiting from the privatizations in Kosovo, but that there should be some professional ethics.
The portal sources say that Schook passed information to Haradinaj, including the ones about the witnesses who were to testify before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) against the former prime minister and OVK leader Ramus Haradinaj, who was acquitted of all charges for Kosovo crimes by the first instance verdict of the Tribunal.
Many of the witnesses ended up dead. And the UN has nothing to say, the portal underscores.
The retired US General Steven Schook left Kosovo in mid-December 2007, after numerous affairs and after it had been discovered that he was under investigation of the world organization on suspicion of being involved in corruption.
