However, after all this, Rexha has made other accusations against the leadership of the mufti of Kosovo, Naim Tërnava, and the chairman of the BIK Council in Pristina, Sopjani.
Rexha claims that in 2022, for personal reasons, the mufti of Tërnava once requested 20 thousand and then 15 thousand euros in cash from the BIK Council's cash desk in Pristina.
Rexha says he handed the money over to the office along with the council's deputy chief imam, Idriz Gjigoli.
"Journalist: Has there ever been a time, Mr. Rexha, when you were asked to withdraw money from the cash register and give it to someone without a cover?"
Rexha: After the statement I made with the lawyers that we would file a criminal complaint, I didn't want to prolong it any longer, but since you're asking, it's a case, namely, that the deputy head of the Council, Idriz Gjigoli, called me and told me that the mufti was asking for twenty thousand euros and after a period of time, he asked for another fifteen thousand euros.
Journalist: When did he get it, when did he request this money on behalf of the Mufti of Tërnava?
Rexha: During the year two thousand and twenty-two, approximately, somewhere on the date August two thousand and twenty-two, and Idriz Gjigoli was present for all of this.
Journalist: So he asked you for twenty thousand euros once, fifteen thousand euros once?
Rexha: He didn't ask me directly. Idriz Gjigoli called me and told me: The Mufti is asking for this amount of twenty thousand euros.
Journalist: And what did you do?
Rexha: We gave it to him.
Journalist: Who did you give it to?
Rexha: To the Mufti.
Journalist: Twenty thousand once and the second time?
Rexha: The second time I gave you fifteen.
Rexha says that the mufti of Tërnava returned these vehicles in 2023.
But how did he manage to justify the lack of funds?
He says he did this by not recording membership fee income for 2022.
He says he only registered the same in 2023, when he says he returned 35 thousand euros to the mufti of Tërnava.
"Journalist: How did you come up with a reason?"
Rexha: No, only one form was used here. That is, the religious services and membership blocks of their value were not registered in that year so as not to appear in the negative and declare that the mufti borrowed the funds from us. We used that method of transferring the blocks without registration and registering them in the coming year, but they were lost, and then registered in the year two thousand and twenty-three.
Journalist: When?
Rexha: From the year, from January onwards
Journalist: Did he tell you why he gave you this money?
Rexha: There is no market. And it's not mine and I didn't ask. It's not mine to ask, assuming that in some way he is the owner of the house or the leader.
Journalist: Has he returned all of the thirty-five thousand euros?
Rexha: He returned them.
Journalist: Did he return them to you or to Idrizi?
Rexha: No, he brought them back to the office.
Journalist: Has he come to you?
Rexha: He came to our office. He even returned it.
When asked if this was their practice, Rexha denied it.
"Journalist: Has this been a practice that has been used in other cases, Mr. Rexha, when the money that was withdrawn was not registered as a membership block for that period, and was then registered the following year?"
Rexha: There have been cases of such debts, meaning they have been carried over from year to year.
Journalist: So, once again… Were there any other cases besides this with Mr. Ternave?
Rexha: No, no, I don't.
Journalist: Is there any other similar case? Rexha: I don't have any.
However, the same practice turns out to have been used a year ago.
The Finance Commission, in a report provided by "Oath for Justice", made remarks about membership and religious service payments for 2021, which were registered later, in 2022.
However, it is not known whether in this case, the money had left BIK's coffers, and who used it.
"We have encountered numerous receipts for membership and religious services from 2021, recorded as income from 2022," the report states.
"The Oath for Justice" has attempted to get an answer to this from the mufti of Kosovo, Naim Tërnava.
However, he has not responded to emails.
On the other hand, the journalist tried to meet the same person in the office.
But, with the excuse that they would respond via email, they refused.
He has not received a response from Gjigoli, who was involved in the Rexha case.
Furthermore, Rexha has made serious accusations of financial gain towards Mayor Sopjani.
"Rexha: Mr. Sopjani, in addition to this, in the past, he also gave us the duties where he was, in all the mosques where he served, he could not have stayed long, because he himself is a person who violates the rules. We have the case in the settlement in Tophane that the community members have requested his removal for misuse that he has committed. I mean, the funds, which are for the maintenance of the mosque, the community has declared to the office and they have said that they have taken them and we are unable to pay the electricity and other obligations."
Furthermore, he claims to have placed a billboard on the mosque premises, and to have appropriated the proceeds from it.
"Rexha: Also, he made a billboard because it was transferred later, after the congregation requested that it no longer be part of this mosque, they transferred it to the Middle Mosque or near the museum and there he put up a billboard. I told him, I warned him, I told him that he doesn't do this form. The form of payment for the billboard means that its rent must go through the office. So that he can pay it later like the form he made for the others, let him do that too, but not in this form.
Rexha: He received the payments directly from the owner of the billboard or whoever gave him permission to put it up, and the moment the mufti heard about this case, he immediately told him to go and remove them."
Rexha also makes other accusations of abuse of office.
"Don't talk about the issue of bribes. He received the salary he had as a mayor, he received the salary he had as an imam, I can say that perhaps the only worker who received the salary never went to the mosque but also used it, it is written somewhere in the report that he also used the card for the use of oil. The workers have told me that I have not seen it, the workers have told me that Mayor Hetemi fills his own car and the family car with the council card many times."
In the end, Rexha expresses his willingness to cooperate with the justice system regarding everything that has happened at the BIK Council in Pristina since he worked there.
"With my lawyers Kastriot Feka and Flutra Selimi, we are also preparing a criminal report for all these violations. We are able to provide answers to all of them before any justice institution or prosecutor's office for everything that happened during the time I was there."
Regarding this case, "Oath for Justice" had first received information about half a million euros of misuse in BIK.
Then the amount dropped to 260 thousand.
While the official amount is now claimed to be 166 thousand euros stolen from income from charity, vitra, zakat, membership and income from rent of premises.
But this remains to be revealed by the justice authorities.
