Acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti has confirmed wiretapping conducted by senior Serbian officials during meetings in Brussels within the framework of the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue.
Kurti said that this action shows a new form of Serbia's undermining and sabotaging approach. While security and political development experts say that this is a scandal, for which the EU should take action against Serbia. However, Brussels has so far remained silent.
On Dukagjini Television's "Five" show, wiretaps were published this week that Igor Popovic, assistant director in the so-called Office for Kosovo in the Serbian government, had made at the meeting on September 17, 2020 in Brussels as part of the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue.
These illegal wiretappings of conversations with European officials were also confirmed this Friday by the acting Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, at a meeting of the acting Government. "The latest case where illegal and secret audio recording of conversations in Brussels is proven is an extremely serious case that reveals in a form that we have not encountered before the systematic, destructive, undermining and sabotaging approach of Serbia, in relation to the parties, the mediator and the process itself mediated by Brussels," said Albin Kurti, the acting Prime Minister of Kosovo.
Popovic was arrested on July 18 of this year in Kosovo after calling the KLA terrorists.
Kurti added that Serbia is continuing to work to destabilize Kosovo, while he said that security bodies are successfully opposing it.
Such an action is considered a scandal by political analyst Afrim Kasolli, who says that the EU should not only seek responsibility and sanction Serbia, but also its officials.
"This is a scandal of its kind, for which in addition to Serbia, Brussels must also be held responsible, because it is illogical, unprecedented and dangerous that an institution in an office such as this of the EU, with foreign and security policy, could serve the Serbian secret service and obtain information there," said Afrim Kasolli, political analyst.
Such an action did not surprise security expert Fadil Kajtazi at all, who says that Serbian officials have used their immunity to bypass security measures.
But what use can these intercepts, which Popovic sent to the Serbian BIA, be to them?
"These are conversations that are analyzed, analyzed by groups of experts, meaning they are analyzed comprehensively, including the intonation of the voice, the way of responding, gestures, etc., in order to study the characters of those participating in the conversations," said Fadil Kajtazi, a security expert.
The same does not rule out the possibility that, if there are elements from these interceptions, blackmail could occur.
In the released audio recording, Popovic and other Serbian officials speak with a European official regarding several properties in Kosovo.
The television then published several messages, which prove Popovic's connections with one of the heads of the Serbian BIA, Bojan Dimić. / RTV Dukagjini
