EULEX arrests group of suspects for crime and fraud
EULEX carried out an arrest operation early on Wednesday at the warrant issued by the international prosecutor of the Kosovo Special Prosecutor's Office and detained ten individuals on suspicion that they were members of an organised criminal ring which managed to pull a fraud on the Italian Embassy in Pristina.
(kosovocompromisestuff) Thursday, February 06, 2014
EULEX is conducting searches at several locations, the mission released but it did not list the names of suspects for organised crime and leverage bargaining. The Kosovo Special Prosecutor's Office and the Italian Embassy in Pristina are closely cooperating in the investigation, the release states. Pristina media reported that EULEX arrested Uk Rugova, son of former president Ibrahim Rugova, in his home in the Pristina neighbourhood of Velanija together with seven more individuals suspected of organised crime. Rugova's lawyer Bajran Tmava confirmed that Rugova was arrested and placed in a 48-hour detention on a warrant issued by the EULEX prosecutor. Sources in the Kosovo Police Service (KPS) say that the KPS did not take part in the operation and that the charges cover the criminal act of illegal sale and purchase of visas. The sources also say that one official of the Italian Embassy in Pristina was also arrested in the operation, Koha Net reported.
