State Prosecution should initiate investigations against Minister Ismaili

Prishtina, 24th May – Today, the newspaper Zëri, in an editorial, relying on documents that possesses has denounced Minister Fadil Ismail about his involvement in corruption affairs. As this newspaper informs, Minister Ismail has been involved in different corruption and conflict of interest affairs while he was on various functions in Public Companies.
These published materials should have been sufficient evidence for State Prosecution to initiate investigations against Mr. Ismaili. We believe that the Prosecution would take seriously the case of

Mr. Ismaili, but also for other cases, the media and civil society are constantly talking about.
Minister Ismaili, who was appointed just a few days ago, took over the most important ministry in the Government of Kosovo, which is the Ministry of Economic Development. Leading this government department by Mr. Ismaili, which includes sensitive processes of Kosovo’s economy, privatization of public companies, strategic economic orientation and so on, are very suspicious because of his implication in different corruption and conflict of interest affairs.

Also, being committed declaratively that Kosovo Government will have ‘zero tolerance’ to corruption, the Government and the Prime Minister must have an attitude about the findings of the newspaper Zëri regarding Mr. Ismaili. No doubt that this is primarily a responsibility of Prime Minister where Ministers are involved in corruption affairs. Such a thing should not be a justification of the coalition, making compromises to not to act in such cases when government officials are denounced for corruption practices, which is to the country’s disadvantage, at the disadvantage of good management of public property and damaging public budget and citizens.