Maarti Ahtisaari: Did He Take Bribes From the Albanian Mafia?

Exclusive Evidence UN Special Envoy for Kosovo Marti Ahtisaari Received Albanian Mafia Bribes for Kosovo Independence

Defense & Foreign Affairs Analysis.

By Valentine Spyroglou, GIS Station Chief, South-East Europe.

On July 8, 2007 the KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army, Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosovës or UÇK) war veterans issued an announcement warning the international community and especially the United Nations (UN) not to interfere the process of recognizing Kosovo’s independence. The KLA announcement specifically said that the Albanian leaders of Kosovo should not accept more suspensions (delays) or new negotiations because these would lead to new hostilities. If their demands were not accepted, then the KLA veterans warned that they would have to take action as KLA soldiers and honor the oath of their national heroes. The announcement came while the UN Special Envoy for Kosovo, former Finnish President Marti Ahtisaari, was publicly accused of having connections with the Albanian mafia in Kosovo.

The Finnish News Agency, STT, published on June 26 and June 27, 2007, two articles stating that the UN Special Envoy for Kosovo was “bought” by the Albanian mafia in order to support independence for Kosovo. The STT articles reported that the information was initially published by the Banja Luka (Republica Srpska, Bosnia & Herzegovina) Daily Fokus on June 21, 2007, entitled “Albanian Mafia Bought Ahtisaari”. According to the Banja Luka report, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had requested that the German Federal Intelligence Service, BND, inform him in detail on what was happening in Kosovo, and he finally received a detailed report on Special Envoy Ahtisaari’s activities in Kosovo. Based on the Banja Luka article, the UN Secretary General was informed that Albanian separatists in Kosovo had paid for Ahtisaari’s plan which proposed independence for the Serbian province. The BND secret service team, headed by Brigadier Luke Neiman, who was directly appointed by the German Government to designate part of the German Secret Service apparatus to the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNOSEK: United Nations Office of the Special Envoy for Kosovo), discovered the connection between the Albanian mafia and Marti Ahtisaari.

Brig. Neiman had recordings of discussions between Ahtisaari and Albanians; how they transferred money; the banks accounts plus codes in Switzerland and Cyprus.One of the BDN recordings revealed the transportation of two-million euros from the Swiss Bank based in the city of Visalia, account number 239700-93457-00097, owned by Exhet Boria, which was masked by an offshore account with a code XS52-KOLER to Ahtisaari’s bank account in the Bank of Cyprus, account number 3459346699004533, code VOLANND.What was also reported was the visit of two men to UNOSEK, in the presence of Ahtisaari on February 12, 2007, at 06:23 hrs (local time) in one black Mercedes four-wheel drive SUV, with license plate PR-443-22CD, which was confirmed to belong to the Albanian Government in Priština. The two visitors carried two silver briefcases which were handed to Ahtisaari. A source inside the UNOSEK facilities confirmed that the briefcases contained cash and were delivered to the UN Special Envoy for Kosovo. Twelve days later, at 17:44 hrs (local), the same car, with the license plates removed, visited UNOSEK but this time it was Exhet Boria himself and two bodyguards that entered the building, carrying again two silver briefcases.

Exhet Boria is a Kosovo Albanian figure involved in organized crime and heroin trade in Europe and he is the “right hand” of Behgjet Pacolli, the Albanian billionaire mafia boss, living in Switzerland. The BND agents realized that the four briefcases had diplomatic luggage labels, and noted that they finally arrived in Finland without being checked — because of the diplomatic tagging — and were delivered at Ahtisaari’s house. The briefcase cash totaled 40-million euros. The German agents also confirmed that Ahtisaari had many telephone conversations with Behgjet Pacolli. Furthermore, on February 28, 2007, at 23:47 hrs (local), the BND agents noted the arrival of a NATO KFOR (Kosovo Force) four-wheel drive vehicle carrying two women who were followed by Boria’s bodyguard. The women stayed in Ahtisaari’s quarters until 05:17 hrs next day, and left with the same car.The office of the UN Special Envoy for Kosovo responded to STT that “this is a silly story that comes from the press of Serbia (Bosnia & Herzegovina).

We have nothing to add”, said Remi Derlo, Ahtisaari’s spokesman based in Vienna. According to STT, the accusations where not commented on by the UN or by Ahtisaari himself. However, the President of the National Assembly of Serbia, Oliver Dulić, has made a formal inquiry into the allegations in order to confirm Ahtisaari’s involvement with Albanian organized crime.Meanwhile, on the date on which the accusations on Ahtisaari were published, June 21, 2007, the UN Security Council session discarded the US-UK proposal to suspend negotiations for 120 days and then apply the Ahtisaari plan for giving independence to Kosovo. Also, that same day the EU warned the Albanians in Kosovo not to take unilateral decisions/action because these would be characterized “irresponsible behavior”.

The GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs station in south-eastern Europe has conducted research in the Balkans and from secure sources it was revealed that the BND report does indeed exist, and that the information contained is not “Serbian fiction” but a reality. The research also revealed additional secure and confirmed information. Specifically, it was confirmed that the former KLA leader, Hakim Thaci (also known as “the snake” of KLA), had made a plan of “100 days” for Kosovo’s independence. It is foreseen that elections would be held in Kosovo, in November 2007; the Kosovo Parliament will have 120 seats from which 100 seats will be taken by Albanians, 10 seats by the Serbs, and 10 seats will be occupied by the remaining minorities in Kosovo. The election winner would be Hakim Thaci, winning 75 seats. The remaining 25 seats would be taken by Albanian parties in Kosovo.

They consider that the Serbs would not vote, hence the 10 Serbian seats would be taken again by representatives of Hakim Thaci.The first session of the Kosovo Parliament would, under the plan, then decide and announce Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence (UDI). According to highly-reliable sources, Thaci and his friends had taken their decisions unilaterally and despite the UN Security Council decision, regardless of what this could mean for the security of the region.Meanwhile, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs sources confirmed that the BND report also contained extensive additional information on the involvement in corrupt activities of other international community personalities involved in Kosovo. As a result, it was understood that, under the pressure of the emerging information/facts, the UN was now considering promoting the partition of Kosovo, rather than adopting the Ahtisaari plan for granting complete independence to Kosovo.
Posted by Alan Peters at 11:31 PM

4 comments:
Zhana said...
This kind of corruption is not a surprise. Serbs (especially those who live in Kosovo and Metohija) knew that for years (from the time when UN mission came to 'make peace', but the real reason was to make new Albanian country on the Serbian territory possible.The powerful world's administrators obviously think they are untouchable.
6:58 PM
Zbyszko said...
1. Perhaps Finns are very good people and do not take a bribery but Mr. Ahtisaari immigrate to Finland from Norway.2. It is not the first time that UN official in former Yugoslavia are accused for taking advantage from organized crime groups.3. It's interesting that Mr. Ahtisaari himself or the UN didn't sue the Fokus paper. It is old well know way to silence the accusation - don't respond to them.
6:44 AM
Wolfgang said...
But only in germenIEP - BND Study Kosovo 2007122 page pdfhttp://balkanforum.org/IEP-BND/iep0001.PDF
7:43 AM
SerbBlog.com said...
Sign a petition to demand of the UN & the Bush Administration a full and transparent investigation of the Ahtisaari Bribery Allegations!
1:52 PM

31.07.2007 17:02:28
Russia names diplomat to join Kosovo troika

( Reuters ) - Russia has appointed senior diplomat Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko to represent the country in negotiations on the future status of Serbia's Kosovo province, the Russian foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

"We can officially confirm the appointment," a foreign ministry spokeswoman said. Botsan-Kharchenko is the special Balkans envoy to Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

He will join one representative each from the European Union and the United States in a "Troika" which has been formed to try to broker an agreement on the future status of Kosovo.

Western powers back a proposal to set Kosovo on the path to independence from Serbia, but that was blocked in the United Nations Security Council by Russia. The "Troika" format was proposed as an alternative.

In a separate statement issued on Tuesday, the Russian foreign ministry said no "artificial" deadlines should be set for the completion of the talks.

That is likely to put Moscow at odds with the Western powers who sponsored the "Troika" plan, because they had said the talks should go on for not longer than 120 days.

"Pre-determining the outcome the mediators will reach, pushing the Ahtisaari plan (to set Kosovo on the path to independence) that the Serbs have rejected, setting artificial time limits on the negotiations -- all this is incompatible with the aim of reaching a compromise," said the statement.

"At the current, critical stage of the status talks process, practices such as these must be ruled out."

Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority want independence from Serbia, but many Serbs see the province as their spiritual heartland.

Russia has backed the Serbians, saying giving Kosovo independence could set a precedent that could fuel separatist conflicts elsehwere in Europe.

But Western powers warn delaying a decision could be more dangerous, forcing Kosovo's Albanians to declare independence unilaterally.

"Trend" news agency - Russia names diplomat to join Kosovo troika