KOSOVO CESSPOOL OF ORGANISED CRIME IN SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE
March 1st, 2011
BY MARK ROWE
LEAKED NATO documents have indicated that the prime minister and senior officials in Kosovo have close links to organised crime. That presents a daunting challenge to law enforcement officials, but their task is made more problematic by the pervasive nature of corruption in the country. Mark Rowe reports.
THE EUROPEAN Union has around 1,900 law enforcement officials deployed across Kosovo to strengthen law and order, in its EULEX mission launched in December 2008. It does not appear to be a job for idle thumbs in a country with an official ...
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