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34 “Preportr” has analyzes the overall distribution of public investments made by these two ministries among Kosovo municipalities. Of total, municipalities known as traditional strongholds of PDK and those with considerable electoral interest have benefitted more compared to municipalities with larger number of inhabitants. Based on public investments made, municipality of Skenderaj sits atop of much larger municipalities such as Prizren, Mitrovica, Peja, Gjakova. Nevertheless the graph remains the same as there are no drastic differences between the municipalities. However, a large portion of the bids has been contracted to companies close to PDK, or consortia that include at least one company from traditional strongholds of PDK. Clearly, the contracts assignment has been conducted based on political interests. Therefore, these investments do not have the stated effect for the areas since the winning companies are those close to the political power. This way, the funds dedicated to the municipal investments, even in those not traditionally known as PDK ones, are diverted
to the municipalities that have always voted this party. The graph also shows that small municipalities like Theranda, Skënderaj, or Drenas have either even or exceed amounts of public investments in Mitrovica, Gjakova, or Peja. Therefore it is clear that we are dealing with certain benefits from public investment projects, but also profiting of companies with certain origins from such projects depending on the interest of the political party in power. Ministries reject meeting “Preportr” “Preportr” has requested the Ministry of Transport and Ministry of Education to provide access to bid documents, in order to gain a complete and clearer insight on procedures according to which contracts have been assigned by these two ministries during 2008 – 2010. Preportr’s aim was to verify the compliance of these bids with the provisions of the Law on Public Procurement and to find out if these two ministries had previous capital investment plans before deciding to invest on certain regions of the country. In spite of official request made for meeting and following up for three weeks the departments of procurement in both ministries did not respond to “Preportr’s” request. Public Procurement – the most affected sector by corruption According to the Kosovo Anti-Corruption Agency the public procurement is the sector mostly affected by corruption. The Agency has continuously stressed in its reports that public procurement in Kosovo in most cases violates the law to benefit certain persons or companies. “Deeds or misdeeds in most cases refer to clear violation of procurement procedures as prescribed by the law through assignment of contracts that favor certain economic operators, and eliminating the operators that fulfilled the criteria of the call for bids file” says in Agency’s report for 2010. Senior Investigations Officer at the Agency, Blerim Kelmendi, informed “Preportr” that most frequent form of corruptive action regarding public procurement relates to abuse of official duty, favor certain companies over the others, massive falsifying of documents, abuse of official duty by procurement commissions, falsifying the diplomas of technical staff, falsifying authorization of international enterprise representation or falsifying their licenses, and bribery. The Agency’s report for 2010 supports the claims of this officer. The report claims that: “during investigations proofs have been found that indicate massive falsification of official documents that intend providing certain economic operators with public contracts. In cases they even use fictional names of professional personnel and falsify contracts with specific persons that have never been employed by those economic operators, or falsify reports for completion of duties that have not been completed although the contracting authority has completed the payment. Equally problematic is proving and verifying the completion of the duties towards the state as such documents have also been falsified continuously. Bribery takes place mainly in cases when favors are other benefits are to be exchanged”. Since its establishment, the ACA reports have stressed that public procurement is the most affected sector by public funds abuse. The 2009 report concludes a situation similar to one in 2010. It states that “most often, open violation of public procurement procedures and the Law on Public Procurement has taken place by favoring certain economic operators for public contracts and eliminating other operators in spite of fulfilling the criteria ascribed by the call for bid file.” 35 The Weakest Link of Kosovo’s Democracy forum 2015
Page 1 and 2: forum The Weakest Link of Kosovo’
Page 3: Table of Contents Introduction 5 Fr
Page 6 and 7: 6 Forum 2015
Page 8 and 9: 8 Constitution of Kosovo and the La
Page 10 and 11: 10 “The aim is that, together wit
Page 12 and 13: 9 12 The tendency to grant absolute
Page 15 and 16: They should be tried! Hasan PrETEnI
Page 17 and 18: Lack of Systematic Legislation for
Page 19 and 20: 19 c) Without this legal infrastruc
Page 21 and 22: eappointment of judges and prosecut
Page 23 and 24: consequences Consequences of draggi
Page 25 and 26: 25 Investigative Journalism From Pr
Page 27 and 28: the Ministry of transport and the M
Page 29 and 30: The graph shows that municipality o
Page 31 and 32: Media reporting on companies close
Page 33: invested between January 2008 and D
Page 37 and 38: MEST and MTPT Award Bids to compani
Page 39: “Preportr “contacted “Bajrama
Page 42 and 43: 42 A comparison between companies t
Page 44 and 45: 44 Euros for a project of “Constr
Page 46 and 47: 46 List of Bid- Winning Companies a
Page 48 and 49: 48 thousand to few million Euros. A
Page 50 and 51: 50 A rETroSPEcTIVE oF ÇoHu! ProJEc
Page 52 and 53: 52 its regular coverage. To convey
Page 54 and 55: 54 Corruption and Organized Crime:
Page 56 and 57: 56 Alliance for Future of Kosova (A
Page 59 and 60: eport on 100 Days of “Çeku” Go
Page 61 and 62: discontent for giving the ministers
Page 63 and 64: and the minister never held himself
Page 65: Post and Telecom of Kosova (PTK) On
Page 68 and 69: 68 Main violations/failures: • Co
Page 70 and 71: 70 vate corporation and as such est
Page 72 and 73: 72 understood due to short time and
Page 74 and 75: *** 74 director of Kosovapress news
Page 76 and 77: 76 Procurement review Body As of Ju
Page 78 and 79: 78 In spite of numerous promises to
Page 80 and 81: 80 the merits of country’s indepe
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84 conclusion Public health and edu
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86 itself. Diverse interpretations
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88 Political responsibility So far,
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90 The Auditor has identified a gre
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92 The current battle to capture th
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94 All these people have been remov
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96 PIHEs without prior clarificatio
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98 interest in the entire licensing
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100 when appointed or promoted with
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104 former director of KTA, Ahmet S
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106 Still not clear on what basis t
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108 to Environmental Strategic Impa
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110 => Kosova A/B b) Through a deci
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112 offers for Prishtina Airport’
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114 French ambassador provide any a
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116 planes. In addition there have
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