PRISTINA, May 2 (Hina) - Some local and international officials in Kosovo are being investigated in connection with the embezzlement of EUR4.5 million of funds donated for the Kosovo power supply system, the head of the local UN
mission's public relations office, Simon Haselock, said on Thursday.
PRISTINA, May 2 (Hina) - Some local and international officials in
Kosovo are being investigated in connection with the embezzlement
of EUR4.5 million of funds donated for the Kosovo power supply
system, the head of the local UN mission's public relations office,
Simon Haselock, said on Thursday. #L#
The embezzlement scandal has rocked the southern Yugoslav province
and been the media's main topic since Saturday.
Haselock reiterated what the UN civil administrator in Kosovo,
Michael Steiner, said, namely that the UN mission would not
tolerate any sort of crime and was resolute in combating
corruption.
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