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Kosovo Officials Stay Hooked on Luxury Cars from Page 1 Opinion: Serbia Shows its Anti-European Side April 13 - 26, 2012 Issue No. 86 www.prishtinainsight.com Price € 1 Kosovo-Serbia COMMENT Movement Deal Belgrade Shuns Caught in Crossfire Plight of Kosovo Hundreds of trucks, loaded with goods, snaked down the Roma hilly terrain for 3km from the Serbian border crossing with Refugees Kosovo on Wednesday. Merdare, the main commer- cial crossing point between the > page 3 two countries, has been the scene of long queues for weeks NEWS as delays on the Serbian side Milosevic’s Secret cause lengthy tailbacks. Angry drivers have been Files to be Opened leaving their vehicles in the queue and crossing on foot into After the Elections Kosovo. On the Kosovo side of the > page 6 border on Wednesday, traffic NEWS was light and there were no queues... Macedonians Flock See Page 4-5 See to 'Miraculous' Frescoes > page 9 Kosovo Officials Stay FEATURE Kosovo Blocked from Hooked on Luxury Cars Eurovision Despite a pledge to slash the use of ministerial cars and cut fuel costs, spending on luxury cars and travel Song Contest continues to rocket. > page 12 ment ordered all state institutions Money Diverted to Luxury minister a new four-by-four, so the By Besiana Xharra to look for savings in spending on money was taken from the INSIDE PRISHTINA fuel and official cars and issued an Limos: Department of Cultural Heritage, oon after taking office in late Critics Say Revamp 2007, Prime Minister Hashim order regulating the use of official In late 2011, the Ministry of and had been earmarked for cul- vehicles. tural projects, according to gov- Takes Prishtina SThaci made sweeping prom- Culture bought a luxury Touareg ises to clamp down on the pur- But four years on, spending has, car for its minister, Memli ernment papers. Back to Square One chase and use of official cars. “We in fact, increased, with money Krasniqi, at a cost of 47,000 euro. Haxhiaj declined to elaborate on will be careful in using budget being diverted from other projects “Buying this car was necessary what schemes lost out as a result of > page 18-19 money by accounting for every to fund new ministerial cars. because the minister’s car was the car purchase. But Memli penny that will be spent,” he said. In total, some 3 million euro has very old and had technical prob- Krasniqi was not alone in having “So I want you [ministers] to been allocated for 2012 on the pur- lems,” Shasivar Haxhiaj, a minis- funds diverted to buy official cars. send me by tomorrow a report on chase of cars. This is up from 1.5 terial adviser, said. Last October, Finance Minister the use of cars in your ministries,” million euro for 2011. The former culture minister, Bedri Hamza agreed to reorganize he added. “Our budget must not be And abuse of official cars con- Lutfi Haziri, declined to comment the 2012 budget for a number of Kosovo’s only English-language spent on luxuries when we have tinues to be widespread in min- on whether the car he had been ministries so that new cars could newspaper is available: many needs and so many people istries, municipalities and other using was in need of replacement. be bought. living in poor conditions.” state institutions, according to the Funds in the 2011 budget had not Delivered to Later that month the govern- Office of the Auditor General. initially been allocated to buy the continues page 2 Your Door Albania’s Power Crisis Pinned Austrian Construction Giant From Newsstands on Company Errors Leaves Kosovo across Kosovo Documents obtained by Prishtina Austria’s Strabag is to sell up its assets Sent To Insight show that high electricity exports in Kosovo after disappointing sales, Your Inbox in January 2011 by Albania’s Power Prishtina Insight has learnt. Corporation, KESH, destabilized the River In 2006, the company purchased the Drin cascade, diminishing in a single largest quarry of former Yugoslavia, close From month this key energy reserve. to the city of Drenas, for 2.5 million euro. It our partners The repercussions of the high sales of invested a further 6million euro in the news electricity and poor... page 12 economy quarry and in building... page 7 see page 16 for more info is supported by: 2 April 13 - 26, 2012 news Kosovo Officials Stay Hooked on Luxury Cars from page 1 The Ministry of Economic Old Cars Sold Development, led by Besim Beqaj, moved 110,000 euro out of the cat- Off Cheap egory for “goods and services” he latest public auction towards the purchase of cars. of official cars organ- The Foreign Ministry shifted Tised by the Ministry of an identical amount in their Trade and Industry in budget from “mobile technology October 2011 sold off 172 for embassies” towards purchase unwanted cars, generating of new cars. 234,000 euro, Arta Istrefi, “The Foreign Ministry is in a spokesperson at this min- poor situation in terms of cars,” istry, said. explained Artan Behrami, advis- This works out as little er at the ministry. more than 1,300 euro per He would not specify when the vehicle – a bargain. The low- ministry would buy the new cars, est price for a car was 117 or how many. “It has only a few euro, while the highest price cars and they are small so the pur- paid was 4,582 euro chase of new cars is more than “Prices are not set by the necessary,” he said. Ministry of Trade, they are The Ministry of Integration Minister of Culture Memli Krasniqi bought himself a VW Touareg soon after taking up the position. set by each institution that and Ministry for Diaspora also applies to sell their cars,” reallocated funds for the same Ministry of Trade and Industry, purpose of use increase the risk 2010,” the auditors wrote. Istrefi said. purposes. fuel expenditures were above the that ministry vehicles are being “While half of Kosovo’s citi- Meanwhile no official In November 2011, the Ministry levels predicted in the budget and used for private purposes,” the zens live in poverty, the leaders of institution of Kosovo of Education spent 100,000 on four that “authorizations for use of auditor wrote. the country at central and local appears able to divulge the Hyundai for the three deputy min- vehicles were missing, [and] the At the Independent level live lives of luxury, buying total number of cars owned isters and the permanent secre- travel receipts were not accurate- Commission for Mines and expensive cars,” Avni Zogiani, by the Kosovo government. tary. The ministry argued that ly filled out regarding the Minerals, the auditor reported: from the Cohu organization, the existing cars were too old. mileage”. “In 12 tested samples for the peri- which monitors corruption, said. According to a contract for the In the Foreign Ministry, the od February-December, we The actions of the government Public Administration, which maintenance of vehicles issued minister’s adviser had used the noticed that the request form for make a bad impression on the was leading the process, was last year, the Prime Minister’s ministry’s Renault Clio outside use of vehicles was not filled out international community, too, unable to say how many, if any, office now has a fleet of six work hours without the with the required data (travel Zogiani added. devices had been installed. Mercedes, four Touareg, three Permanent Secretary’s or the purpose, destination, time of “Mayors in more developed Hajredin Kuci, Deputy Prime BMWs, as well as 15 Nissan and Minister’s approval. Between departure/return from the trip countries as well as government Minister, said: “We have increase Kia Sportage cars. January 20 to March 6, 2010 she etc).” officials go to work by trains, and spending in this direction An audit of the Ministry of covered 1,585km without com- At the Ministry of some of them also use bikes,” he because we have also increased Finance’s accounts for 2010 pleting travel forms and did not Communities and Returns and noted. “Such a thing never hap- our working capacity. Our revealed that two top-of-the-range keep records on destinations and Ministry of Transport, inconsis- pens in Kosovo.” Government has worked more Mercedes had been bought for the travel purposes. tencies were found in the fuel Plans to track government than the one before us, therefore minister and deputy minister for “The use of official vehicles bills. “Reports on fuels expenses cars with GPS devices in order to if we compare our work, it is just under 100,000 euro. In breach without necessary approval, did not present a true and fair curb such abuse were launched obvious that we did not increase of the procurement laws, the ten- records of destinations and the picture of expenses incurred for in 2010, but the Ministry of spending.” der had been issued so that only a specific brand of Mercedes could be offered, rather than a range of similar vehicles. Serbian Police Find Running on Empty: In its financial report for 2011, Stolen Cezanne which was published last month by Minister of Finance Hamza, it also emerged that the govern- painting stolen from arrested on Wednesday and the ment spent 23 million euro on Zurich in 2008 and worth police are still searching for fuel that year, up 5 million euro A82 million euro was found the fourth person. on the figure for 2010. on Wednesday in Belgrade. The operation, which was The figure back in 2007, the Serbian police found a paint- carried out in Belgrade and year before the Prime Minister ing by the post-impressionist Cacak, was organised by made his promise, was 8 million.
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