Veseli questioned at the special court in The Hague

The outgoing president of the Pristina parliament and leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo Kadri Veseli was questioned today at the special court in The Hague, the Pristina-based Gazeta Express writes.

According to this media outlet, Veseli was supposed to be questioned at the special court about the circumstances under which former members of the so-called KLA committed crimes against Serbs and other non-Albanians, as well as against loyal Albanians during the last conflicts in Kosovo and Metohija.

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Veseli's questioning was initially scheduled for December 4, but was postponed until today for unknown reasons.

Before departing for The Hague, Veseli didn't want to reveal if he had been asked by the special court to appear as a witness or a suspect, and after the questioning he maintained the same attitude.

After more than three hours spent at the special court in The Hague, Veseli didn't disclose in what capacity he was questioned - as a suspect or a witness.

He didn't present any details regarding what was happening in the special court, the Pristina-based Gazeta Express reported.

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He repeated his statement made yesterday about the 1990s having been difficult for so-called Kosovo, and about alleged ethnic cleansing and genocide committed by Serbs against Albanians, as well as the "feats" of the terrorist KLA.

Former SHIK agent Naim Miftari, to whom Veseli was superior in this Kosovo secret service, claims his former boss was summoned as a suspect.

Miftari, who was also questioned by the special court, wrote on his Facebook profile yesterday that, although a suspect, Veseli and his friend and colleague Hashim Thaci will not be put on trial until, as he put it, all their friends have first been sacrificied in that court.

"Kadri Veseli was summoned to the special court as a suspect, and this is a court he formed together with Hashim Thaci. But they will not be tried until their friends are sacrificed, like Turkish heads were sacrificed in order to keep Kosovo an isolated, lawless counry without a future andwithout hope, which practically doesn't even exist today," Miftari wrote.

Kadri Veseli - "Master of Kosovo"

Veseli is considered a "shadow man" and a "master of Kosovo".

Veseli is the second Albanian political leader, after Ramush Haradinaj, to be questioned in the special court.

He is one of the founders of the so-called KLA and the longtime first man of SHIK, the Kosovo secret service.

Along with Hashim Thaci, Veseli is mentioned in a report submitted by Dick Marty to the Council of Europe regarding the affair about the trafficking in human organs taken from Serbs during the 1989-1999 war in Kosovo and Metohija.

Veseli is believed to have been a member of the Albanian Information Agency, which operated within the FARK, an Albanian armed formation of the "Republic of Kosovo" - consisting mainly of former JNA (Yugoslav Army) officers and (Serbian) Interior Ministry and Secret Service employees of Albanian ethnicity.

According to some media reports Veseli was directly involved in the terrorist attack on the Nis Express bus in Podujevo that killed 12 Serbs and injuring 43 others, who also said that Thaci had knowledge of this crime.

Veseli is reported to have completed terrorist training courses in Albania, Germany and Switzerland, and that he controlled and still controls money flows in Kosovo and Metohija, drug and oil smuggling, and of being responsible for numerous liquidations as a man from the shadows.

Video: Serbian hackers hack into Kadri Veseli's site

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)