The Prosecution Council of Kosovo has today taken the decision to dismiss the Acting Chief State Prosecutor, Besim Kelmendi.
With five votes in favor, Kelmendi was dismissed from office, meanwhile, prosecutor Agron Qalaj will take his place from tomorrow.
The Chairman of the Prosecution Council of Kosovo, Ardian Hajdari, has proposed Agron Qalajn as Acting Chief Prosecutor.
Besim Kelmendi’s dismissal comes a day after he held an extraordinary press conference, in which he denied reports that he collaborated with the Serbian judge, Danica Marinkovic, in 1999, who was in charge of the Reçak massacre case. Marinković worked as a judge in the District Court in Prishtina, and had described the massacre as a “fictional event”.
45 Albanian civilians were killed in that massacre. Kelmendi has confirmed that on Wednesday he appeared as a witness at the Special Prosecutor’s Office of Kosovo regarding his work in court at the time when the massacre took place. According to him, at that time he was employed at the District Court in Pristina as a professional associate, emphasizing that he performed the work of the process manager, so he denied the accusations that he was Marinković’s assistant. According to him, Marinković was the judge who “disappeared the evidence for the massacre of Recak”.
