Nezir Çoçaj, a candidate for MP from the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) has been summoned for questioning by The Hague based Kosovo Specialist Chambers.
It is has been announced by the Organization of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) Veterans.
Çoçaj is expected to be interviewed by prosecutors in the coming days, while no details if he is a suspect or witness have been made public yet.
The Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC) last year confirmed first indictments issued by the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) against former high seniors of KLA, five years after it was established.
Sail Mustafa was the first arrested in late September, charged with arbitrary detention, cruel treatment, torture and murder.
One day after, following a long raid in the office of the KLA War Veterans Association, its chairman Hysni Gucati and his deputy Nasim Haradinaj were arrested and transferred to The Hague.
They are accused of revealing without authorisation, information protected under the law of the KSC, including the identifying details of certain (potential) witnesses, on the occasion of three press conferences between 7 and 25 September 2020. SPO charges Gucati and Haradinaj with six counts.
The arrests by The Hague that shook political scene in Kosovo took place in November when KSC confirmed the war crimes indictment against former President Hashim Thaci, former Parliament Speakers Kadri Veseli and Jakup Krasniqi and the former MP of Vetevendosje, Rexhep Selimi.
During the war in Kosovo, Thaci, Veseli, Selimi and Krasniqi were high figures of the KLA Headquarters.
Right before transferred to The Hague, Thaci resigned from his position, leaving the country with an Acting President.
SPO charges them with six counts of crimes against humanity, namely: persecution, imprisonment, other inhumane acts, torture, murder and enforced disappearance of persons; as well as four counts of war crimes, namely: arbitrary detention, cruel treatment, torture and murder.
According to SPO the former KLA leaders are alleged to be responsible for nearly 100 murders.
