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74. BAJRAM (Nevzad) KRYEZIU
Born on January 30, 1955, in the village of Rogačica, Municipality of Kosovska
Kamenica. As a member of the KLA general staff for the Karadac zone, and the KLA
commander for the village of Rogačica, he was one of those who issued orders for the
assassination and kidnapping of the Serbs on the territory of the Municipality of
Kosovska Kamenica. He organized the murder of Stojan Tasić, from the village of
Čarakovac and of the policeman Trajan Trajković, from the village of Kololač,
Municipality of Kosovska Kamenica, while the actual perpetrators of the crime were
members of his terrorist group acting on the territory of this Municipality. Beside that, he
organized and executed terrorist attacks on police checkpoints in the village of Končulj,
Municipality of Bujanovac, and planned a series of terrorist attacks on the police stations
in Bujanovac and Preševo. Following the withdrawal of the members of the Serbian
Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces from the Municipality of Kosovska
Kamenica in July 1999, he organized a parade of the KLA members in the villages
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inhabited by the Albanian population, aiming to demonstrate the power of this
organization. After KPC was formed, he became the spokesman for the 6th RTG in
Gnjilane and was also in charge with the coordination of cooperation with the members
of the international community on the territory of the Municipality of Kosovska
Kamenica. As a lieutenant colonel of KPC, together with the members of ANA, he
carefully watched the terrain in the Municipality of Bujanovac and followed the activities
of the police force, with the intention of carrying out new terrorist attacks in that region.
75. MAZLOM (Alija) KUMNOVA
Born on March 17th, 1946, in Djakovica. In October 1993, he was sentenced to five years
imprisonment by the District Court in Peć. On August 25, 1998, criminal charges were
brought against Kumnova and 97 members of the terrorist group from Djakovica by the
district public prosecutor’s office. At the beginning of the 90s, together with Bajram
Mehmeti, Nasim Zeka, Nur Murtezi and Lulzim Shasivari, he was engaged in the
organization of Albanian paramilitary units thus forming an illegal national defense
headquarters where he performed the duties of a deputy commander of the headquarters,
in charge of the rear lines and finances. In the terrorist base in the village of Jablanica, he
was engaged in the formation of a city guerilla and, together with Sokol Dobruna, he
organized the illegal transfer of a large number of arms and other military equipment
from Albania. In April and May 1999, on the territory of Djakovica, in the Čabrat
settlement, following his direct instructions, Hekuran Hoda and Abdulah Babalija
committed a number of criminal acts in which three member of the police and army
forces were killed and a dozen suffered slight wounds. After the arrival of KFOR,
Kumnova proclaimed himself to be the „first mayor of liberated Djakovica“. He is
currently the president of ABK branch in the same city.
76. MIRSAD (Jusuf) KURTESHI, alias „Dubula“
Born on July 1st, 1975, in Priština. He was one of the most active KLA members in this
city. As a member of the terrorist group headed by Abedin Sogojeva, one of the top
officials of the KLA secret police for the Obilić region he took part in the massacre of
seven ethnic Serbs in the village of Mazgit, Municipality of Obilić in June 1999 and in
the destruction of a dozen or so Serb houses in Obilię in November of that same year.
Between 1999 and 2000, he was involved in the terrorist activities of the group headed by
Arif Krasniqi, aka „Muja“. He took part in the murder of the Rapajię family from Obilić,
on December 28, 2000, together with Kadri Sulejmani, aka “Mouse”, a member of the
KLA secret police, with Sabit Lladrovci, a former KLA member, now engaged in the 1st
RTG of KPC, with Muhamet Ēerkezi, aka „Ēerkez“, a member of LAPMB, and Ahmet
Ēerkezi and already mentioned Sogojeva. Together with the above listed individuals he
planted explosives in the Kastelo restaurant in Obilić, where the Serb population
congregates. He is connected with the murder of Miladija Stanojević, the harassment of
ethnic Serbs, KPS members (for example Tanja Mihajlovię from Priština), with the
destruction and plunder of Serb property in that region, as well as with physical abuse
(Stojka Stojanović, Muhamed Limaj, Tomica Antić, Novica Ilić, Milenko Mihailović and
others). Because of the said activities, he was arrested by KFOR and UNMIK police on a
number of occasions.
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77. AGIM (Latif) KUQI
Born on October 7th, 1963, in Suva Reka. In June 1998, together with Blerim Kuqi, Naim
Berisha, Osmani Elshani, aka „Shlafi“, and a certain Nusret from Samodreža, he formed
a terrorist group on the territory of the Reštane village, in the Suva Reka Municipality.
Agim and Blerim Kuqi managed the main KLA headquarters for the villages of Opteruša
and Zočiste, situated in the village of Dobrodeljane, in the Suva Reka Municipality.
Following their orders, they illegally purchased arms and ammunition. Kuqi’s group, on
the Suva Reka – Orahovac route, better known as the Restansi road, wounded the
policeman Milorad Nešković and murdered Sadriu Kryeziu from Suva Reka. In the
middle of July 1998, under his command, 16 Serbs were kidnapped from Opteruša and
Zočiste and were subsequently taken to the Drenovac village while their houses, along
with the houses of other Serbs in those villages, were burned to the ground. Following the
action of the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces in
the region of Suva Reka, Agim, Blerim and Ruzhdi Kuqi and Osmani Elshani, aka
„Shlafi“, fled to Albania and joined FARK.
78. RAMIZ (Muhamet) LLADROVCI
Born on January 3rd, 1966, in the village of Gladno Selo, Municipality of Glogovac. In
the middle of 1993, he spent some time in Albania where he was engaged in organizing
of military training for individuals who, having completed the training, were sent to
K&M, with the purpose to carry out diversionary terrorist activities. At the end of the
same year, he went to Germany where he joined and was active in the work of NMRK,
primarily in the field of arms, ammunition and military equipment acquisition, which he
transferred to K&M and sent to his brother Fehmi, one of the most influental KLA
commanders in the Drenica region (killed in 1998). For KLA needs, he recruited young
Albanians who were employed in Germany and other Western Europe countries. After
the Serbian security forces withdrew, he came to K&M, where he was immediately
accepted into KPC and appointed deputy commander of the National Guard within this
formation. Throughout 2001, he was engaged in providing logistic support to LAPMB
members, as well as to Albanian terrorists active on the territory of the Republic of
Macedonia. He used his high position in KPC to acquire financial benefits. His associates
accuse him of embezzling huge amounts of money from the funds collected by the
Albanian emigrants as aid to KLA and later KPC formations. Because of his connection
with the terrorist organizations, he was placed on the American „black list“ of
organizations that have restricted access to financial aid, i.e., of the individuals who are
forbidden to enter the US. Also, he is also banned from all activities of KPC for a year.
79. FATMIR (Kadri) LIMAJ, alias „Steel“
Born on February 4th, 1971, in the village of Banja, Municipality of Suva Reka. From
1992 to 1994, he was engaged in the illegal organization PMKL. Toward the end of 1995
he joined KLA where, under the command of Rexhep Selimi, he was in charge of
identifying individuals who were collaborating with the Serbian Ministry of Internal
Affairs and of carrying out all preparations for the terrorist acts against the Serb security
forces in Mališevo and Orahovac. In 1996, together with Selimi, he planned and
attempted to murder Shukri Krasniqi, from the village of Banja, and Vesel Pintolij, from
the village of Temeęin, Municipality of Suva Reka. During 1998, he was the commander
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of the camp in the village of Lapušnica, Glogovac Municipality, where, in the period
between June 22 and July 25 of the same year, 22 individuals were held and, physically
abused and murdered. Among the victims were Milovan and Miodrag Krstić, Boban
Mitrović, Živorad Krstić, Stamen Genov, Djordje Djuk and Siniša Blagojević. He was the
initiator and direct participant in the capture and abuse of ethnic Albanians and Serbs and
he demonstrated special brutality in his direct participation in the genocide against the
civilians, since, following his orders, in the limekiln in the village of Klečka,
Municipality of Lipljan, over 50 individuals were burned. He was the organizer and
perpetrator of the attack on Orahovac on July 17, 1998, when over 50 people were
kidnapped, of whom 40 are still listed as missing. At the beginning of October 1999, the
group headed by Fatmir Limaj kidnapped, in front of a number of citizens, Ramiz Hoxha,
in the Belanica village, because he had allegedly negotiated with the members of the
Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs the return of Albanian refugees from the village of
Banja to their homes. Ramiz Hoxha was later murdered. Together with Rexhep Selimi, he
founded the „Falcon’s Eye“ group which, beside terrorist activities (primarily murder),
was involved in the arms and drug trafficking, racketeering, organized prostitution and
the like. These activities were carried out in collaboration with the members of the crime
clans composed of the Elshani and Kolaku families, from Suva Reka region. For a certain
time period, Limaj was in the position of Kosovo’s deputy defense minister only to be
arrested by Slovenian police on February 17, 2003, and taken to the Scheveningen jail,
having been indicted by the Hague Tribunal for crimes against humanity and the
violation of the laws and customs of war (for killing civilians in the jail located in the
Lapušnik village). From the top echelons of DPK, an initiative was launched to form a
special fund for the defense of Fatmir Limaj, one of the most trusted associates of that
party’s president, Hashim Thaqi. The initiative was delivered to the Government of
Kosovo. The initiative suggests that, from the budget of the Government of Kosovo, two
million euros be taken for the said purpose. At the same time, pressure was exerted on the
owners of companies and shops to contribute between a hundred and a thousand euros for
the same purpose.
80. EKREM (Kurtesh) LLUKA, aka „Vuka“
Born on October 11th, 1959, in Peć. In 1992, as the owner of the Dukadjini printing house
in Peę, he helped make a seal for the elementary and secondary schools in the Albanian
language with the inscription reading “Kosovo Republic”. Lluka diversified his business
activities in the second half of the 90s, thanks to his association with, and the financial
support to, Sellim Shabani and Salli Nimani. He is currently one of the financially most
powerful people in the province and the owner of a number of companies on the territory
of K&M and abroad. Among other things, he owns a cigarette factory, a brewery, a radio
and television station. Also, a chain of restaurants and hotels and a basketball team. He is
one of the main financiers of Albanian terrorists in Kosovo and Metohija and, towards
the end of the 90s, he provided close to two million euros for their needs. Recently he
was allegedly forced to pay the racket amounting to around 100,000 euros a month. He is
involved in trafficking of cigarettes, in oil and oil derivates, and motor vehicles, and is
included in drugs and arms trafficking (via the network in Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece,
FYROM, Serbia and Montenegro, Albania, Italy and Germany). At the same time, he
controls the Serbian–Albanian mafia and trade along the Priština-Belgrade-Priština route.
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His closest associates in these operations are Isa Balaj and Alli Haskaj. Considerable
profits are gained by trafficking in women from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and
Slovakia, who are later forced into prostitution. He is involved in „money laundering“
activities, for which he uses his companies „Albatroniks“ and „Dukadjini“. Via the
„Albatroniks“ company, a certain amount of money has been transferred and paid into the
accounts of certain Islamic non-governmental organizations, which are suspected of
being connected with the Islamic fundamentalists in Syria. Ekrem’s brother, Agim Lluka,
is a co-owner of the „Albatroniks“ company which carries out the largest part of the
smuggled cigarettes trade. Beside that, Ekrem Lluka uses EMK Petrol for transporting
weapons and military equipment through Albania to FYROM. He is very close with the
members of the Haradinaj family and he conducts his activities in collaboration with and
following the authorization of Hashim Thaqi and Ramush Haradinaj, and is closely
connected with Agim Ēeku and Arben Xhaferi, the leaders of the terrorist groups in
FYROM. Ekrem Lluka’s connections with the Elshani family are especially indicative. It
is a family which, among other criminal activities, is involved in serious threats to, and
elimination of, Ramush Haradinaj’s political rivals. Towards the end of October 2002,
the members of the Italian police, while trying to cut the main cigarette smuggling routes
in K&M, searched Lluka’s business premises (cigarette plant in Zahać) and, on that
occasion, seized around 280 tons of cigarettes, while Ekrem Lluka and Naser Kelmendi
were taken into custody and later released to await trial.
81. ISA (Bajram) LATIFI
Born on August 25th, 1964, in the village of Štedim, Municipality of Podujevo. Carrying
out the orders of top KLA commanders on the territory of the operative zone of Lab to
murder certain ethnic Serbs in Podujevo, on June 23, 1999, he killed Slobodan Mirović
and, three days later, Sreten Živković. Two months later, together with Fehmi Jakupi and
Samet Arifi, he killed Srbislav Djukić, from the village of Glavnik, and Radovan
Djindjić, from Podujevo.
82. MUHAMET (Braim) LATIFI
Born on May 26th, 1955, in the village of Polatna, Municipality of Podujevo. He was one
of the organizers of KLA for the Podujevo region and the whole Lab zone. During 1998
and 1999, he carried out duties of the commander of the so-called territorial defense of
Kosovo and, after KPC was formed, he was appointed military police commander of the
5th RTG. In the second half of 1999, he headed so-called 2nd group of KLA’s police in
the region of Priština, with 46 members situated in a building belonging to the Catholic
church. This group was in charge of the camp where Serb prisoners were held, located in
the village of Gornja Lapaštica, in the hamlet of Žergovo. There, Latifi and with three
members of his group murdered Miroslav Milačić from Podujevo, Branko Marković and
Branko Djukić from Priština, and Jovica Kordić, from Vučitrn. Following Daut
Rexhepi’s orders, from the Corps for the Defense of Kosovo, in mid-1999, Latifi planted
explosives in the market place in the village of Bresje, Municipality of Kosovo Polje, on
which occasion two Serbs were killed and some 40 persons were wounded. Moreover, in
the second half of 1999, he was in charge of overseeing the area between Merdare and
Podujevo, where he headed a terrorist group, the socalled Assassination Guard, which
was formed in order to carry out attacks on the local non-Albanian population.
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Organizing some kind of illegal customs authority on the territory under his control, he
banned the import of goods produced in Serbia and demolished each shop that sold them.
This „customs authority“ imposed tax on the illegal felling of state and privately owned
forests (whose owners were Serbs), in the amount of 5 DM per cubic meter.
83. LULZIM (Azir) LECI, alias „Gjagji“
Born on February 23rd, 1974, in the village of Gminac, Municipality of Kosovska
Kamenica. He was an assistant commander of KLA’s Karadak zone and a member of
KLA headquarters for the Municipality of Kosovska Kamenica. In 1999, these
headquarters were located in his house, in the village of Gminac, where a large amount of
weapons was also stored. He managed a group of 15 KLA members which carried out a
few murders and set a large number of houses on fire in the villages of Oraovica, Firiceji
and in Kosovska Kamenica itself. Also, he organized an attack on the Bogdanović couple
(Milutin and Taska), in the village of Kriljevo, Municipality of Kosovska Kamenica, in
August 2000. While LAPMB was active in southern Serbia, he organized the transfer of
terrorists from K&M into LAPMB and, on a number of occasions, he stayed in the
security zone. He is currently in the position of an adviser in the Ministry of Labor and
Social Policies in the Government of Kosovo.
84. AFRIM (Hallit) LULAJ, alias „Abu Musem“
Born on September 12th, 1974, in the city of Osek Hilja, Municipality of Djakovica. He
was a member of the infamous „Abu Bekir Sidik“ unit composed of foreign mercenaries
– mujahedins and the most extreme Albanian terrorists from K&M. Within this unit,
Lulaj headed the branch in the village of Smonica. He took part in the organization and
implementation of terrorist attacks against the members of the Serbian Ministry of
Internal Affairs and the YA forces, on the Čabrat hill, over Djakovica, on the Djakovica-
Dečani route.
85. NUREDIN (Jetulah) LUSHTAKU
Born on February 27th, 1967, in the village of Donje Prekaze, Municipality of Srbica.
Because of his terrorist activities, he was sentenced, in absentia, to 20 years in prison in
1997. From 1991, he was a member of Adem Jashari’s terrorist group and took part in a
large number of terrorist acts on the territory of Drenica and other parts of K&M. Beside
other activities, he took part in the attack on a police convoy in the Ludović village,
Municipality of Srbica, in 1997, and together with a group of terrorists from the village of
Lauša, Municipality of Srbica, he was a perpetrator of the assassination of Sefer Zani,
from the village of Poljance. After Adem Jashari’s murder in 1998, Lushtaku was
appointed commander of KLA headquarters in the village of Donje Prekaze and a
member of KLA general staff for the operative zone of Drenica. He maintained close
connections with Sami Lushtaku, Sahit and Musa Jashari, Fadhil Kodra, Jetulah and Sabit
Gecaj and others. During his stay in the village of Likovac, he took part in the harassment
and abuse of the Serb prisoners. In the period between 1998 and June 1999, he supervised
terrorist activities on the territory of the aforementioned operative zone, carrying out the
orders of Sami Lushtaku, Hashim Thaqi and Sylejman Selimi, aka „Sultan“, the then
acting KLA commander for the Drenica region. After the establishment of KPC, Thaqi
appointed him commander of the 114th brigade of the 1st RTG in Drenica. After Sami
Lushtaku was removed from KPC, Thaqi maintained his influence over the said
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organization by appointing Nuredin Lushtaku commander of the guard, with the
headquarters in Prizren. He is a member of the illegal terrorist group called the „Falcon’s
Eye“ and, together with a group of terrorists from the Drenica region, he took part in a
large number of attacks against the members of the police and the YA forces on the
territory of Bujanovac and Preševo. He occasionally stays on the territory of FYROM,
providing assistance to the local terrorists. At the previous elections in K&M, following
Sami Lushtaku’s and Thaqi’s orders, he intimidated Albanians in the Drenica region who
opposed Thaqi’s policies.
86. SAMI (Malazim) LUSHTAKU
Born on February 20, 1961, in the village of Donje Prekaze, Municipality of Srbica. By a
verdict of the District Court in Priština, he was sentenced, in absentia, to 20 years of
imprisonment for his criminal acts of terrorism. Together with Adem and Hamza Hasari,
Fadil and Nuredin Lushtaku, Sylejman and Rexhepi Selimi, Tahir Jashari and Jakup
Nura, he is one of the founders of KLA in the Drenica region. He completed his military
training in Albanian and, in 1997, took part in the abuse and the massacre of the Serb
civilians who were kidnapped and held in a camp situated in the Likovac village,
Municipality of Srbica. He was a perpetrator of a terrorist attack on a police station in the
Rudnik village, Municipality of Srbica, in 1998, as well as on a police convoy in the
village of Ludovię, Municipality of Srbica. In that period, he was appointed Deputy
Commander of the KLA General Staff for the Drenica zone of operations, with the
headquarters in the village of Likovac, Municipality of Srbica, and for a certain period of
time he carried out the duties of the commander of this operative zone. Later, Hashim
Thaqi appointed him Commander of the 2nd operative zone in the Prizren region
(Paštrik). At the same time, he was elected Deputy Head of the Kosovo’s Secret Service
where, among other duties, he was in charge of engaging volunteer units from Drenica,
which were sent to the region of the Bujanovac, Preševo and Medvedja municipalities, in
order to carry out terrorist acts. Due to the increased terrorist activities the consequence
of which is a destabilized security status in K&M and following the initiative of the
representative of the US administration, on July 6, 2001, Lushtaku was fired from his
position of the KPC Commander and is prohibited from carrying firearms. For violating
this prohibition, he was taken into custody by KFOR for questioning. After that, he left
the region of the Srbica Municipality, fearing the arrested for his criminal and terrorist
activities during and after the armed conflict, and spent the larger part of 2002 in Albania,
in the city of Kuks. His family is one of the most influential in the Drenica region and
works closely with Hashim Thaqi, Rexhep and Sylejman Selimi and Xhavit Halliti,
playing a significant role in the organized crime in K&M. He is on the American „black
list“ of organizations and individuals who, because of their terrorist activities, have
restricted access to financial aid, i.e., who are not allowed to enter the US.
87. ENVER (Demo) MAVRIQI
Born on January 23rd, 1961, in the village of Firiceje, Municipality of Kosovska
Kamenica. Until 1990 he worked as a policeman in the Serbian Ministry of Internal
Affairs. On behalf of the KLA General Staff for the Kosovska Kamenica region, he led a
group of 15 KLA members, whose task was to form checkpoints where passengers and
vehicles were searched, and certain Serbs and Albanians were taken prisoner. In the KLA
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General Staff situated in the dormitory of the secondary school in Kosovska Kamenica,
he personally took part in the physical abuse of a large number of Albanians who were
suspected of collaborating with the state bodies of the Republic of Serbia. Beside that, on
June 28, 1999, he ordered the Serbs from the village of Firiceje to abandon their homes,
threatening them that otherwise they would be killed. In July 1999, he ordered the
burning of all Serb houses in the said village. In the same period, he kidnapped, and
subsequently murdered Živorad Stojanović, a policeman from the Firiceje village.
Throughout 2000, he organized KLA police in Kosovska Kamenica and acted as its
commander, using the premises of a usurped apartment whose owner was an ethnic Serb.
He was also included in organizing the members of LAPMB on the territory of Kosovska
Kamenica and their transport to the ground security zone. He was arrested by KFOR for
illegal possession of arms and spent some time in the prison in the Bondsteel camp.
88. NAIM (Ramadan) MALOKU, alias „Besnik“
Born on February 17th, 1958, in the village of Labljane, Municipality of Peć. A former
YNA officer. During his studies at the Military Academy in Zagreb, Maloku, together
with Xhafer Jashari, Fadil Hakaj, Ramadan Gashi and a group of Albanian soldiers who
were doing military service at the time in Zagreb, formed an illegal organization called
the Movement for the Albanian Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia (PASRJ). Because of
that, in 1985, together with a dozen or so officers, he was arrested and sentenced to 4.5
years in prison by the military court. He was pardoned in 1988, after which he moved to
Ljubljana. He joined KLA in 1996 and, two years later, returned to K&M. He was
appointed the Chief of the General Staff of the operative zone Dukadjin by Ramush
Haradinaj, the then acting commander of the aforementioned zone. Beside training KLA
members, he also organized weapons supply from Albania and, in March 1999, he
headed a terrorist group in its attack on the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal
Affairs Serbia and the YA forces in the village of Vrelo, Municipality of Istok. Following
the withdrawal of the Serbian security forces from K&M, Maloku took an active part in
the forceful expulsion of the remaining Serbs. During 2000, he formed a new Albanian
political party – the Liberal Center of Kosovo - which later joined Ramush Haradinaj’s
Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, in which Maloku became Vice-President.
89. FATON (Bajram) MEHMETAJ
Born on January 24th, 1963, in the village of Požare, Municipality of Dečani. Due to the
criminal act of espionage for the Albanian intelligence service, Mehmetaj was sentenced
to 5 years in prison in 1986. He was a member of the KLA general staff in the operative
zone of Dukadjin, where he carried out the duties of the security chief, maintaining direct
contact with Ramush and Daut Haradinaj. He was the perpetrator in the assassinations of
a number of Kosovo Serbs and Montenegrins, as well as the arrest and physical abuse of
civilians in Metohija. Following the demilitarization of KLA, he was made a member of
the general staff of the 3rd RTG of KPC and the chief of the intelligence department of G-
2 in this zone. He supplied the members of the intelligence service of Albania with the
data of security importance connected with to the activities and organization of the
international security forces in K&M. In June 2002, together with a group of KPC
members, he was arrested by UNMIK police for a series of murders and other crimes
committed in 1999 against Albanian and non-Albanian citizens whose bodies were later
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found close to the Radonjić Lake, Municipality of Dečani. In July of the same year, he
was released from prison, due to the lack of evidence. He organized the murder of Tahir
Zemaj, a former FARK commander, who came into conflict with the clan of Ramush
Haradinaj. The murder was committed on August 18, 2001. He is one of the organizers of
the delivery of threatening messages addressed to the Albanians of the well-to-do
families in K&M, from whom, in the name of „protection“, huge financial sums were
extracted. He is also a member of the extremists terrorist organization known as „Black
Eagles“, which is usually used for the protection of Ramush Haradinaj’s political and
criminal interests, i.e., the organized crime group „Dukadjini“.
90. NAZIF (Haradin) MEHMETI, alias „Dini“
Born on September 20, 1961, in the village of Sajkovci, Municipality of Podujevo. Until
September 1991, he was employed by Kosovo‘s Provincial Secretariat of Internal Affairs
and, after leaving the service, he spent some time abroad. When he returned to K&M, he
was appointed Deputy Commander of the special KLA units on the territory of the Lab
operative zone and was later engaged in KPS, in the Police Station No. 3 in Priština.
According to the anecdotal evidence, Mehmeti, in his position of a deputy commander of
the special units within the KLA’s 5th operative zone, together with Latif Gashi and Naim
Kadriu, participated in the murders of an operative of the State Security of the Serbian
Ministry of Internal Affairs, Milan Jović, in Podujevo. The members of the so-called Lab
group, which Mehmeti belonged to, took part in the attacks on the political opponents,
primarily of the DSK members. They were also involved in the robbery, racketeering of
the Albanian population in that region, as well as in the kidnapping of young Albanians.
They kidnapped Osman Sinani, from the village of Murgule, Municipality of Podujevo,
who was subsequently murdered, as well as Milovan Stanković, an employee of „Javor“
in Podujevo, from the village of Bečię, Municipality of Merošine, Ratko Vičentijevię,
from the village of Donja Dumnica, Visar Voca, Sabri Berisha, Goran Zbiljić, Čedomir
Blagojević and Živorad Biserčić. Nazif Mehmeti is also one of the perpetrators of the
terrorist attack carried out in August 1996, in the village of Donje Ljupče, Municipality
of Podujevo, in which an employee of the Center of the Serbian State Security of Priština,
Ejup Bajgora, was murdered. In that attack, beside Mehmeti, the other perpetrators were
Latif Gashi, Zahir Pajaziti, from the village of Tutučice, Naim Kadriu and Shaip Haziri,
from the village of Kačikol, Municipality of Priština. Beside that, he was one of the top
officers of an improvised jail in the village of Gornja Lapaštica, in which Serb and
Albanian prisoners were held. In July 2003, by a verdict of the International Court, he
was sentenced to 13 years in prison, for the war crimes committed on the territory of
Priština and Podujevo.
91. FADIL (Sadik) MUJOTA, alias „Cubi“
Born on July 17th, 1969, in the village of Malopoljce, Municipality of Štimlje. Prior to
1998, Mujota, together with his father Sadik and his cousin Bajrush, were engaged in the
illegal trade in weapons and ammunition. He was arrested in 1993, but he soon escaped
abroad. He remained in Switzerland and Germany until 1998, when he returned to
Malopoljce and joined KLA, taking over the command of the terrorist group in that
village. This group was directly subordinated to the KLA General Staff located in the
village of Jezerce, and organized and carried out terrorist attacks on the Štimlje-Uroševac
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and Štimlje-Crnoljevo routes, kidnapped and abused Albanians loyal to the Republic of
Serbia (Naim Shabani, from the village of Vojnovci). Beside that, Mujota illegally
crossed the border with Albania and took part in the acquisition and delivery of weapons
for KLA’s use. Following the withdrawal of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and
the YA forces from K&M, he continued his terrorist activities with the intention of
ethnically cleansing the non-Albanian population from K&M. He purchased a number of
Gypsy houses on the Štimlje-Lipljan route and, in mid-June 1999, following his orders, in
the private house of Mujota’s cousin in Štimlje, an improvised jail was set up for Serbs
and Gypsies. After the establishment of KPC, he was placed in the army barracks in
Uroševac. However, after a certain period of time, he filed an application to be
demobilized, since he was not satisfied with his rank and the treatment he received.
Along with Xhabir Zharku, he heads a criminal group from the village of Malopoljci and
is one of the organizers of the illegal acquisition and resale of narcotics in the region of
Gnjilane. These narcotics arrive in K&M from Albania, via Tetovo (FYROM). He is
involved in the trafficking in human beings where he collaborates with Jetulah Ēari, aka
“Guri”, from Suva Reka. Ēari is the owner of a facility in the village of Rečane where a
certain number of girls from Russia, Rumania and Bulgaria are kept. Mujota’s main
connection with the trafficking in human beings is an Albanian called Balem, from
Štimlje, from the Beqaj family.
92. SHEFQET (Esat) MUSLIU, nicknamed „Adzija“
Born on February 12th, 1963, in the village of Končulj, Municipality of Bujanovac. As a
KLA member in K&M, in 1998, he was engaged in Special Units under the command of
Ramush Haradinaj. During 1999, he took part in the abuse of the Serbs in Gnjilane, in the
interception, illegal arrests, harassment and looting of the passengers on the Bujanovac-
Gnjilane road, above the village of Dobrosin. At the beginning of 2000, he joined the
then formed group for the assassination of Albanians who lived in the region of Gnjilane
and who refused to cooperate with the terrorists. From December 1999, especially after
armed conflicts in southern Serbia were intensified, with his cousin Junuz Musliu and
other associates, he intercepted vehicles in the vicinity of the village of Dobrosin,
harassed the passengers, illegally arrested and mistreated them, confiscated vehicles and
goods and robbed them of their valuables, extorted money, allegedly for KLA’s use.
After LAPMB was formed, he managed its headquarters in Dobrosin. With the intention
of enlarging the influence of his organization, he ordered forced mobilization of ablebodied
Albanians, their short-term training and participation in terrorist actions. He
initiated the foundation of the local village headquarters in the region of Bujanovac and
Preševo, which he later united and placed under his command. At that time, he personally
took part or commanded a number of armed attacks on police positions in the villages of
Dobrosin and Končulj. From October 1999 until March 2001, in the Bujanovac
Municipality, he committed 49 of the most serious criminal acts. In KPC uniform,
together with his associates, he stopped vehicles moving towards Gnjilane and collected
„toll“, saying that every Albanian from Preševo and Bujanovac had to pay the requested
sum. He took part in the terrorist attack on a police patrol in Končulj, on November 23,
1999, when two policemen were wounded, as well as in the action carried out on
February 26, 2000, when, with a group of 11 armed LAPMB members, he attacked the
policemen in the vicinity of the village of Končulj, at which time two members of the
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Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs were killed. On June 8, 2000, together with Ramadan
Zairi and Nasuf Musliji, he planted four anti-tank mines in the vicinity of the elementary
school in Končulj, on the road towards Dobrosin, when 5 members of the Serbian
Ministry of Internal Affairs were wounded. He organized, on June 22, 2000, the murder
of the last remaining Serb residents of the village of Mali Trnovac and ordered that antitank
mines be placed on the village road in Mali Trnovac, and when the explosion went
off on November 10, 2000, a member of the police force, Ivica Božinović, was killed. In
2000, together with Lirim Jakupi and Vulnet Ibishi, he extorted 20,000 DM from Junuz
Vasufi and seized his car, threatening to burn his house if he reported the incidents to the
police. In this period, the same group took 2,000 DM by extortion from Naim Rexhepi,
the owner of „Ideal Commerce“, and from the owner of „Jeton Trans“, in the village of
Dobrosin, 5,000 DM. Towards the end of December 2000, in the company of Bulnet
Ibisi, he stopped the „Madjar-Tours“ bus in Končulj, from the direction of Gnjilane, and
harassed the pass engers Reshat Ebibi from the village of Turije, Municipality of
Bujanovac, and an older Albanian because, allegedly, they had assisted Serbs during the
sale of their property to Albanians. On that occasion, he forcefully took the amount of
10,000 DM from the passengers. Musliu continued his criminal activities in 2001 when,
with a group of associates, he seized Sabedin Ibraimi’s jeep. For the confiscated vehicle,
the aforementioned individual received a certificate, along with a threat that he would be
killed if he reported the incident to the police. Although, at the beginning of 2001 he had
declared that he would accept the agreement on the demilitarization of LAPMB, as the
commander of the General Sstaff of this organization, he ordered its members to hide the
greater part of the weapons in the bunkers and warehouses, and on February 4 of the
same year, he organized an attack on the position of the YA and police force in Lučani.
At the beginning of March, he organized the kidnapping of four Serbs, who were held in
Končulj, as well as the kidnapping and harassment of Radomir Stojiljković, from
Trstenik. After LAPMB was disbanded, he moved to Gnjilane, but continued to
command a group of terrorists who, following his orders, committed a number of terrorist
acts in the region of southern Serbia. When ANA was formed in southern Serbia, he was
elected its official and, together with Lirim Jakupi, he organized the activities of a
diversionary terrorist group following the commands of ANA top officials. With the help
of the members of his family in Germany, he initiated the establishment of the so-called
humanitarian fund, „Fatherland Calls“, intended for the collection of funds from the
Albanians abroad. He usurped the larger part of those means for his own personal needs.
Until his arrest, he led an extremely comfortable existence and, in the last two years, in
the Gnjilane Municipality, he bought a house and a few business premises. Although he
possessed the means which he had „acquired“ as LAPMB commander, Musliu, together
with Mustafa Xhemajli, was also involved in the smuggling of arms brought in from
Albania and sold on the territory of K&M, the FYRepublic of Macedonia and southern
Serbia. He was put on the American „black list“ of organizations and individuals who,
because of their terrorist activities, have restricted access to financial aid, i.e., who are
forbidden to enter the US. He was arrested on April 12, 2003, by KFOR and is currently
in the military base Bondsteel in the vicinity of Uroševac.
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93. ISAK (Smajl) MUSLIU, alias „Cerciz“
Born on October 31st, 1970, in the village of Račak, Municipality of Štimlje. After a stay
abroad, he returned to K&M in May 1998 and joined the KLA members in the
Municipality of Štimlje, where he was appointed deputy commander of KLA general
staff in the village of Rance. He belonged to the 121st „Agim Qelaj“ brigade within the
operative zone of Paštrik. In the village of Rance, he organized the recruitment and
military training of new KLA members, as well as the delivery of arms from Albania.
Beside that, he personally interrogated and harassed the kidnapped individuals (among
whom Albanian Hajriz Hajrizi, from the village of Belinac), and organized attacks on the
members of the police and YA forces. Towards the end of September 1998, together with
his unit, he abandoned his position in the Rance village and retreated into the Lapuštnik
village, Municipality of Drenica, only to be sent, in November of the same year, to a
special terrorist training center organized in Switzerland. After his return to K&M, he
was appointed one of the deputy commanders of the KLA general staff of the Nerodimlje
operative zone, in the village of Jezerce, Municipality of Uroševac. Following the
adoption of the UN Security Council Resolution 1244, he continued his terrorist activities
as a member of the KPC secret police in Uroševac, where he was one of the top officials.
He was arrested in February 14, 2003, by the members of the international security
forces, together with six like-minded individuals, and taken to the Bondsteel base,
whence he was subsequently transferred to the Hague, since the indictment of the Hague
tribunal has charged him with a number of crimes against humanity and the violation of
the laws and customs of war committed in 1998.
94. RUSTEM (Musli) MUSTAFA, alias „Remi“
Born on February 27th, 1971, in the village of Prepolac, Municipality of Podujevo. He
commenced terrorist activities in 1989, within the illegal group NMRK, and continued
them in 1998, by joining the KLA general staff for the Lab region, the 5th operative zone,
where he carried out the duties of the deputy commander and later of the commander of
the said zone. Under his command, towards the end of 1998, terror was committed
against the Serb population, the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and
the YA forces, as well as against some members of the Albanian population who were
murdered, kidnapped and taken to the prisons located in the villages of Bradaš and
Gornja Lapaštica, while their property was looted and destroyed. Following the
withdrawal of the members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the YA forces
from K&M, he formed terrorist groups „Skifteri“, „BIA“ and „Red Hand“ whose
members conducted ethnic cleansing, kidnapping and murder of the remaining Serbs in
the region of Priština and Podujevo (the murder of Milan Milovanovię, in the village of
Dabovac, Municipality Kuršumlija, as well as the placing of anti-tank mines on the
Kuršumlija-Prepolac road, in November 1999, when three members of the Serbian
Ministry of Internal Affairs were murdered and five wounded). In September 1999, the
KPC commander, Agim Ēeku, promoted him to the rank of major-general and appointed
him commander of the 5th RTG of Lab, and towards the end of 2000, commander of the
6th RTG. These appointments were intended to initiate organizational and technical
preparations for further terrorist activities in the region of Preševo, Bujanovac and
Medvedja, in view of the fact that, members of LAPMB had carried out terrorist acts
under the direct command of Rustem Mustafa, in 2000. He abused his high position in
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KPC to accumulate financial means some of which were used to finance LAPMB, while
he took the rest for himself. Together with Ismet Bekteshi, he is accused of embezzling
seven million DM from the KSIK aid fund, which he used to finance his private business
activities in Priština. He had close contacts with Rexhep Veseli and Ellami Bajrami,
connected to the narcotics smuggling, and a member of the Fadil Gumnista mafia
organization. Upon his and Fatmir Humoli’s command, the terrorist group „BIA“
committed, an attack on the Niš-Ekspres bus, when 11 passengers of Serb nationality
were killed on February 16, 2001, in the vicinity of the Livadice village, Municipality of
Podujevo. From June 26, 2001, Mustafa is on the so-called black list of the US
administration, as an individual who is directly responsible for the instability in K&M
and the overall Balkan region, which is why he was replaced as the commander of the 6th
RTG of KPC, and an investigation was launched against him following KFOR initiative.
On the basis of the statements given by family members of the murdered Albanians
(Agim Musliu, Alush Kastrati, Idriz Svarēa, Drita Voce) and the eyewitnesses report on
the murder of Enver Sekiraēa, the UNMIK police arrested Rustem Mustafa on August 11,
2002. On July 16, 2003, he was sentenced by the International Judicial Council of the
District Court in Priština to 17 years in prison, for the war crimes committed in the region
of Priština and Podujevo.
95. SALIH (Jaha) MUSTAFA
Born on January 1st, 1972, in Priština. Due to his membership in the NMRK illegal
organization, he was sentenced to five years imprisonment in 1993. As a KLA member,
he acted within a special unit which committed murder and kidnapping and robbed the
property in the Priština and Podujevo municipalities. After KPC was formed, and
following orders from Rustem Mustafa and Fatmir Humoli, he formed an illegal terrorist
group called „Skifteri“, with the goal to carry out assassinations, kidnapping and looting
of ethnic Serbs and their property. Within „Skifteri“, he formed his own group, which
was composed of Behar Berisha, Ruzhdi Halili, aka „Rudi“, Nazif Metoli, aka „Tabut“,
Hilmi Veli, aka „Death“, Haki Abazi, Aslan Sinani, Gani Koci, Shefqet Murseli, Shaqir
Beqiri, brothers Faik and Raif Arifi and others. Toward the end of June 1999, together
with Agim Rexhepi (false name Agron Xhemaili), from the village of Karuševac,
Municipality of Obilię, he organized the assassination of a certain Boško, a former
department store employee in the same city. He was the organizer and perpetrator of the
assassination of a number of ethnic Albanians from the region of Podujevo (among
whom Ukshin Zeqiri and Milaim Gjakoli), and is connected with illegal arms trade and
narcotics distribution.
96. ARIF (Pajazit) MUQOLI, alias „Prof“
Born on May 15th, 1952, in the village of Hrtica, Municipality of Podujevo. He was a
member of the KLA operative zone Lab and, after the 151st brigade „Zahir Pajaziti“ was
formed, he was appointed its commander, with the headquarters in the village of Bradaš.
After the demobilization of KLA, he was appointed one of the top officials in the KPC
general staff. He was involved in the murder of Mirko Sarić, from the village of Tačevac,
Municipality of Kuršumlija, committed on July 20, 1999, in the village of Metohija, as
well as in the systematic ethnic cleansing of the Serb population on the territory of the
Podujevo and Priština municipalities.
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97. MALIQ NDRECAJ, alias „Commander Maliqi“
Born in the village of Mačiteva, Municipality of Suva Reka. After KLA operative zone
Dukadjin was formed, Ramush Haradinaj appointed Ndrecaj commander of the 132nd
KLA brigade, named „Murat Zeneli“, with the headquarters in the village of Jablanica.
This brigade was in charge of the jail in which the kidnapped Serbs were tortured and
murdered. Following the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK in K&M, he commanded a
special unit called „Evil River“ whose members carried out a large number of criminal
acts against the non-Albanian population in the region of Djakovica. After ANA
headquarters were formed in the Debalde village, Municipality of Vitina, in 2002,
Ndrecaj was appointed commander, entrusted with the training of ANA members.
Following the instructions of Ramush Haradinaj, Ndrecaj took part in the armed conflicts
in Kumanovo (FYROM), where he led the terrorist group within NLA, using the alias of
„Commander Mala“. He was also active in the illega transport of arms and other military
equipment from Albania for the needs of the terrorists in the regions of Preševo,
Bujanovac, Medvedja and in FYROM. In that context, with his group, composed of
Shaban Tahiri, from the village of Berjah, Selman Sadiku, from the village of Nivokaz,
Municipality of Djakovica, Binak Mazreku, from the village of Voks, and Hajdar Habibi,
from the village of Junik, Municipality of Dečani, Ndrecaj took weapons from a
warehouse situated in the Dečani region and stored them in the immediate vicinity of the
administrative border with southern Serbia, as well as the state border with FYROM. Due
to these activities, he was arrested by KFOR in March of 2003, but was soon released.
98. SELAMI (Ilmi) NEZIRI, alias „Agron“
Born on July 5th, 1972, in the village of Donja Slatina, Municipality of Vitina. Due to his
activities within PMKL, criminal charges were filed against him in August 1993, and he
was tried and sentenced to 14 months imprisonment. Having completed his training in
Albania, at the beginning of 1998, with a group of 10 KLA members, he illegally crossed
into the territory of K&M where, together with Ahmet Isufi, Shemsi Syla and Lulzim
Leci, from the village of Gmince, Municipality of Kosovska Kamenica, he participated in
the establishment of KLA headquarters for the operative zone of Karadak, as well as in
mobilizing and training new KLA members, and in the delivery of weapons and military
equipment. In the summer of 1999, he was appointed commander of the 173rd KLA
brigade, and later commander of a KPC unit in Vitina. At the same time, he carried out
duties of vice-president of the Municipal Assembly of Vitina until October 2000, and was
also the leader of the terrorist group „Black Eagles“, whose members took part in
assassination, harassment and expulsion of Serbs from that Municipality. In March 2001,
during the armed conflicts in FYR Macedonia, Neziri headed a group of around 300
terrorists from the territory of the Vitina Municipality, which took part in the battles
against Macedonian security forces in the region of the Tanuševci village. Shortly after
the aforementioned activities, he was removed from KPC. In mid-2002, he was engaged
in the delivery of weapons to FYROM. A part of the weapons was stored in the border
villages of Debelde and Mjak, in Vitina Municipality. In the same year, he was appointed
director of the Insurance Department in the municipal assembly of Vitina. He still holds
the same position and is very active in organizing the purchase of Serb property in that
Municipality.
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99. JAKUP (Smajl) NURA
Born on February 13th, 1966, in the village of Prelovac, Municipality of Srbica. At the
beginning of 1997, by the verdict of the District Court in Priština, he was sentenced to 20
years in prison for his criminal acts of terrorism. After a short stay with the terrorist
group of Adem Jashari in 1991, he was sent to Albania for military training. After his
return to K&M, he took part in a number of terrorist acts against the members of the
police, including the attack on the police members on the railroad crossing in Glogovac,
when four policemen were killed, and the attack in the village of Likosane, Municipality
of Glogovac, as well as in a number of kidnappings and assassinations of the Serb
civilians. In the period between February 1998 and June 1999, he was the KLA
commander for the village of Prelovac, Municipality of Srbica, and a member of the KLA
general staff for the region of Drenica, and is now a member of the special unit within
KPC for the Drenica region. He is closely connected with the currently most active
terrorist groups in K&M, southern Serbia and FYROM. In mid-2001, with a group of
terrorists, he stayed the administrative border towards Bujanovac, Preševo and Medvedja,
where he took part in the terrorist acts against the members of the police and YA forces.
100. ENVER (Osman) ORUĒI
Born on December 6th, 1962, in the village of Rezalo, Municipality of Srbica. He
graduated from the Military Academy in Belgrade and used to be the commander of the
Federal Secretariat of Internal Affairs in Vučitrn. From 1998, he was active as a KLA
member, in the region of the Čičavica mountain, where a large number of crimes were
committed against the members of the ethnic Serb population. Under the direct leadership
of Oruēi and Mensur Kasumi, the abduction of the Serbs from the village of Nevoljane,
Municipality of Vučitrn, was organized. Members of the KLA 124th brigade, commanded
by Enver Oruēi, kidnapped five Serb senior citizens from the village of Nevoljane and
drove them, via Čičavica and Prekaze, into an improvised jail set up in the village of
Likovac. In this jail, Serb and Albanian prisoners were mistreated and murdered, among
whom was the policeman Ivan Bulatović. Sabit Geca and Sylejman Selimi, aka “Sultan”,
especially excelled in the massacre and assassinations.
101. GJUMSHIT (Ahmet) OSMANI
Born on May 2nd, 1951, in the village of Zitinje, Municipality of Vitina. Within KLA, he
was engaged in the collection of intelligence data. After KLA was disbanded, he was
appointed head of the KPC secret police in Gnjilane, usually carrying out orders given by
Ahmet Isufi and Shemsi Syla, the commander and the deputy commander of the
operative zone of Karadak. Together with Nazmi Bekteshi, from Gnjilane, a former
member of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, and now a member of the secret
police, he abused the remaining members of the Serb population in the region of Gnjilane
Municipality, with the goal of their forced expulsion. Also, following the orders of Isufi
and Syla, he organized the murder of prominent Serbs in Gnjilane, so that in the city itself
more than a hundred people were killed and 90% of the ethnic Serbs were exiled. He
usually engaged individuals from the criminal environment for the most serious criminal
acts (murder, rape, arson, physical abuse). These activities were especially directed at the
former members of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs who had remained in K&M.
In order to demonstrate his loyalty to KLA, the former operative of the Security Service
of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Fatmir Drmaku, from Gnjilane, had to,
following orders given by Osmani, take part in the murder of DSK members.
102. NEBIH (Qerkim) PRENIQI
Born on August 26th, 1975, in the village of Ade, Municipality of Obilię. As a member
of the KLA secret police, under the direct command of Abedin Sogojeva and Sabit
Lladrovci, he took part in the murder of the Rapajię family from Obilić, on November
28, 2000.
103. RAHMAN (Sadri) RAMA
Born on November 23rd, 1970, in the village of Okraštica, Municipality of Vučitrn. He
performed the duties of the commander of KLA 4th operative zone encompassing the
region of the municipalities of Kosovska Mitrovica, Vučitrn, Leposavię, Zvečan, Zubin
Potok and a few villages from the Obilić Municipality. As a member of Adem Jashari’s
terrorist group, he was directly involved in the supervision of the actions in the Drenica
region in 1993, only to be moved on later to the Vučitrn region, where he was engaged in
the organization of the terrorist groups in almost all the villages of this region. In June
1998, he organized and supervised terrorist attacks against the Serb families in the village
of Pantina, Municipality of Vučitrn. On the occasion, he kidnapped the Miljković couple
(Ratomir and Čedomirka), whose destiny remains unknown. After the expulsion of the
ethnic Serbs from the aforementioned village, he ordered total destruction of all Serb
houses and other buildings. In June 1998, he headed a group of 1,000 KLA members who
managed to transport a large amount of weapons and military equipment from Albania to
K&M. As the commander of the aforementioned zone, Rama embezzled the financial
means collected abroad for the acquisition of weapons and other equipment for KLA
needs. After the withdrawal of the Serbian security forces from the territory of K&M, he
forcefully took over a number of business premises and apartments whose owners were
members of the non-Albanian ethnic communities, mostly Serbs. After the establishment
of KPC, Rama was appointed commander of the 4th RTG, with the headquarters in
Kosovska Mitrovica. In November 2001, he found himself with the rank of major-general
in the position of the commander of the 5th RTG of KPC in Priština, from which he was
removed at the end of June 2003. Rama has huge financial means at his disposal, which
he used to buy a house in Priština, the value of which is estimated at approximately
250,000 euros, and he built four large houses in the village of Okraštica, where his
parents and brothers live and constructed the most contemporary farm for raising cattle
and poultry, the value of which is estimated at over 200,000 euros. He owns a number of
luxury cars and jeeps. He is closely connected with Agim Shahini from Vučitrn, the
owner of the „Bes-Arti“ trade company from that city and the president of the
Association of Trade Companies in K&M.
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