Serb recounts mistreatment by Albanian terrorists

May 19, 2008
Source: Glas Javnosti

Ljubomir Mirkovic, refugee from Pec, after imprisonment in Albania, signed under threat of arms in the Pec court a contract with the mafia.

KPS and UNMIK police have ignored his denouncements to the police and treated him as a criminal.

"I was hostage for ten days of the Albanian mafia that took by force all of my property in Kosovo. They kidnapped me in Tuzi, Montenegro, illegaly transferred me to Albania, and then to Pec. We crossed the borders, while the Montenegrin, Kosovo or UNMIK police didn't stop us, and they didn't protect me when I finally revealed to them what hapenned to me! Until 1999, Mirkovic was an influential businessmen in Pec and a SSJ deputy for some time. I owned a series of restaurants in Pec and a pasta mini-factory," said Mirkovic.

Mirkovic's total property was estimated at 500,000 Euro, while Albanians from Kosovo offered him as much as 750,000 Euro.

"Nevertheless, I didn't want to sell them anything. I live modestly in Belgrade, I hoped I would be able to return to my hometown one day, but the Albanians decided to kidnap me," says Mirkovic.

They tried to talk friendly with me. They asked me to have my wife send from Belgrade the ownership documentation for the property in Pec and forced me to sign a contract whereby I would transfer everything on them, i.e. to sign a paper according to which I owe them 220,000 Euro, and that I am giving as guarantee all of my restaurants and factory in Pec.," he said.

Then problems started. Albanians understood that there is no formal contract with Serbia that permits selling of immovables. They decide to transfer him, after several days spent in home detention, to Kosovo.

Albanians were permanently in contact with the Pec attorney Mustafa Radonjic.

"The entire transaction was suspicious to him, but still, I signed in his office some conract on a loan, whereby all of my property was transferred, for fictitious 220,000 Euro, to the hands of a certain Resata Kuci from the vicinity of Pec, since Albanian citizens were unable to be formal owners," Mirkovic said.

Albanians then verified the contract in the Pec municipal court.

"Finally, they took me to northern Mitrovica and I was finally free on 14 April, after ten days. I lost 11 kilograms [about 25 pounds]... I was all dirty and looked like a corpse," says Mirkovic.

Mirkovic first went to KPS, and then to UNMIK police, where an American interrogated him for five hours.

"They treated me as if I was a criminal. They didn't even want to listen to the details on border crossings, maltreatment, kidnapping... They insisted on some totally insignificant matters, where did the property come from, why I didn't sell it. At the end they asked me why don't I go to Pec and file criminal charges," Mirokovic said.