Veseli's lawyer, Rodney Dixon, said that the SPO has confused statements made in post-war interviews by Veseli about the Kosovo Intelligence Service, presenting them as statements made about the KLA's intelligence-counterintelligence service.
He said that the ZPS says that Veseli had led the apparatus for identifying opponents, but Dixon argued that in a 2011 interview, when Veseli was questioned by prosecutors, he was talking about SHIK and the year 2000 and the directorates of this service.
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Letter to the Reader — Why We're Asking for Your Support ContributeDixon said that the SPO claims that SHIK has been operational since 1999, but claimed that there is no evidence that this service was operational at that time, and only towards the end of this year did things "start to move" on this issue.
Veseli's lawyer said that this service was created after the war.
"The evidence shows us that during the war it was impossible to create this structure. The treatments and contacts abroad helped him in the previous structure. After Rambouillet, Veseli left his post as head of the G2 military service, within the KLA, and this is April 1999 and became the head of the civilian SHIK. So SHIK was part of the [provisional] Government," said Dixon./rel
