The Kosovo Intelligence Agency, AKI, announced on Monday that the Hague-based Specialist Prosecutor’s Office wants to interview its General Inspector, Burim Ramadani, over alleged wartime and post-war crimes by the former Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA.

“Ramadani has been ordered to appear as a witness for questioning on a specified date and has been asked to provide details of his physical and geographical location during the war and provide documents, including photos and other data, from January 1, 1998, until December 31, 2000,” the AKI press release said.

“Ramadani is fully aware of his obligations in such cases and believes that this is a technical error and as such will be clarified in due course,” the AKI added.

Asked by BIRN, the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office declined to comment on the issue.

Ramadani, 41, was appointed AKI General Inspector in November 2019. Prior to this, he was a senior figure in ex-Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj’s Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, AAK, serving for many years as an MP and Deputy Minister for the Security Forces.

The Kosovo Specialist Chambers was set up to try crimes allegedly committed by the KLA during and just after the Kosovo war from 1998 to 2000. They are part of Kosovo’s judicial system but located in the Netherlands and staffed by internationals.

They were set up under pressure from Kosovo’s Western allies, who claimed Kosovo’s justice system was not robust enough to try KLA cases and protect witnesses from interference.

The court is widely resented by Kosovo Albanians, however, who see it as unfair and an insult to the KLA’s war for liberation from Serbian rule.