The Government withdraws, the anti-corruption Task Force is extinguished only in name

On paper, for two weeks now, there is a Government decision signed by Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti to abolish the anti-corruption Task Force, but in reality, the unit is not disbanded.

As sources have said, an unwritten "agreement" has been reached between the Government and internationals, that the structure of the Task Force remains intact, while Hoti does not reverse his decision.

In the concrete questions of TIME on this topic, the Government did not respond, but they added that Prime Minister Hoti gave the answer to this issue on Friday.

"This Task Force has been in the air, undefined in the police organization chart...", he said on October 29 in the Assembly.

The 30 investigators of the Task Force, as KOHA has learned, will now work within the Directorate of Investigations, which includes about 600 policemen divided into different departments.

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The Task Force investigators will not become part of any of the existing departments, continuing with the same commitments.

Since its establishment, the head of this Task-Force has been accountable to the head of the investigation department.

However, regarding this issue, the response was also missing from the Kosovo Police.

Ehat Miftaraj, from the Kosovo Institute for Justice, has said that the Government has already withdrawn from its decision, and this, in addition to international pressure, is also thanks to the reaction of civil society and the media after the decision.

Despite the fact that the dissolution of the Task Force structure, at least until the definition of the new structure of the Kosovo Police, will not happen, for Miftaraj the damage done by the Hoti Government in this case is great.

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"These 30 police officers are more vulnerable, but what is worse is that through this decision the politician has sent a message to the police, to the prosecutors, and to those who enforce the law in Kosovo, that if you have the courage, the courage, the will to investigate, the Task Force or the institution where you work, can easily be dissolved by a government decision", he said.

At the Government meeting, on the day when this Task Force was dissolved, Hoti called this institution unconstitutional, contesting every investigation that has passed through this unit.