UNMIK personal tycks ha tagit 400 miljoner euro och det är skattepengar som de flesta av oss har betalat rätt eller fel
Jag ber er håll er till ämnet inga historie lektioner nu annars ber jag mod att stänga tråden
German daily Die Welt claims to be in possession of a joint EU-UN report making damning accusations of the way EU funds were handled by international workers in Kosovo.
"The United Nations tolerated fraud. There were tens of millions of EU taxpayers' money abused in Kosovo, but the culprits are running around freely," the paper quotes the spokesperson of the Union parties in the Budget Control Committee of the EU Parliament, Inge Grßle.
A joint study group made of EU anti-fraud authority Olaf, the United Nations investigators and the Italian financial police Guardia di Financia has made 50 or more sample investigations: "Of which there were 12 cases of evidence of criminal activities," says the secret report of the group. In a further 27 cases, it found "irregularities" and "the violation of UN rules".
In the use of EU funds in the energy sector, more than €400 million since 1999 were embezzled, the paper cites the report. Nine years since the conclusion of the conflict, blackouts are a daily occurrence in Kosovo.
The paper says several UN employees were issued arrest warrants for corruption. One of those the paper alludes to could be Joe Truschler, a con man who for years ran the Kosovo electricity corporation. Truschler was prosecuted and convicted by his native Germany for the fraud of €4.5 million from KEK.
In 2006, Guardia di Financia investigated Gavin Jeffrey, working for the telco PTK, the most profitable public corporation, ordering him not to leave Kosovo. However, Jeffrey was allowed to go back to Britain by UNMIK, who controlled the borders at the time.
Jeffrey was investigated along with a group of local executives of PTK in 2004, when he left and established his own company as an outside consultant to PTK.
UNMIK personnel have been investigated in all revenue-making public corporations of Kosovo.
Even during the expansion of the Prishtina Airport, there were loud allegations of abuse and manipulation in the bidding process, concludes Die Welt. General Director at the Prishtina Airport during UNMIK years was James Johnson, suspected for corruption at the Miami International Airport before coming to Kosovo, a simple Google search reveals.
Tenders, public companies and the economy from 1999 until independence in 2008 were handled by UNMIK’s so called 4th/EU Pillar. EU began a rule of law mission in Kosovo on December 11.
German reporting on Kosovo developments is fraught with factual inaccuracies; however, the report mentioned in this article seems to correspond with the actual developments.
Jag ber er håll er till ämnet inga historie lektioner nu annars ber jag mod att stänga tråden
German daily Die Welt claims to be in possession of a joint EU-UN report making damning accusations of the way EU funds were handled by international workers in Kosovo.
"The United Nations tolerated fraud. There were tens of millions of EU taxpayers' money abused in Kosovo, but the culprits are running around freely," the paper quotes the spokesperson of the Union parties in the Budget Control Committee of the EU Parliament, Inge Grßle.
A joint study group made of EU anti-fraud authority Olaf, the United Nations investigators and the Italian financial police Guardia di Financia has made 50 or more sample investigations: "Of which there were 12 cases of evidence of criminal activities," says the secret report of the group. In a further 27 cases, it found "irregularities" and "the violation of UN rules".
In the use of EU funds in the energy sector, more than €400 million since 1999 were embezzled, the paper cites the report. Nine years since the conclusion of the conflict, blackouts are a daily occurrence in Kosovo.
The paper says several UN employees were issued arrest warrants for corruption. One of those the paper alludes to could be Joe Truschler, a con man who for years ran the Kosovo electricity corporation. Truschler was prosecuted and convicted by his native Germany for the fraud of €4.5 million from KEK.
In 2006, Guardia di Financia investigated Gavin Jeffrey, working for the telco PTK, the most profitable public corporation, ordering him not to leave Kosovo. However, Jeffrey was allowed to go back to Britain by UNMIK, who controlled the borders at the time.
Jeffrey was investigated along with a group of local executives of PTK in 2004, when he left and established his own company as an outside consultant to PTK.
UNMIK personnel have been investigated in all revenue-making public corporations of Kosovo.
Even during the expansion of the Prishtina Airport, there were loud allegations of abuse and manipulation in the bidding process, concludes Die Welt. General Director at the Prishtina Airport during UNMIK years was James Johnson, suspected for corruption at the Miami International Airport before coming to Kosovo, a simple Google search reveals.
Tenders, public companies and the economy from 1999 until independence in 2008 were handled by UNMIK’s so called 4th/EU Pillar. EU began a rule of law mission in Kosovo on December 11.
German reporting on Kosovo developments is fraught with factual inaccuracies; however, the report mentioned in this article seems to correspond with the actual developments.
