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Acting US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Ahern stated in Belgrade that all those Serbs from northern Kosovo who were sanctioned by the US should be held accountable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“Individuals and companies targeted by these sanctions must be held accountable, and their destabilizing activities must be stopped,” the US Embassy in Serbia quoted Ahern as saying.<\/p>\n
On December 8, the US Treasury Department added to the list of leading sanctions of, as it said, the organized crime group in Kosovo and companies led by them.<\/p>\n
According to the Treasury Department, they caused instability and engaged in corrupt activities, damaging the citizens and economy of Kosovo and Serbia.<\/p>\n
\u201cPresident [i SHBA-s\u00eb, Joe] Biden made it clear that fighting corruption is a top US priority. “The Treasury Department will continue to hold the protagonists of corruption accountable, wherever they are.”<\/p>\n
Ahern, during his visit to Serbia from December 13 to 15, met with key representatives of the government and businesses, while discussing topics of common interest, according to a statement from the US Embassy.<\/p>\n
Ahern will also visit other countries in the region this week to find out to what extent organized crime and corruption threaten the stability and prosperity of the Western Balkans.<\/p>\n
The US Treasury Department added to the sanctions list the deputy leader of the Serb List – the main Serb party in Kosovo – Milan Radoicic, businessmen from northern Kosovo, Zvonko Veselinovic and his brother Zarko Veselinovic, as well as ten other people associated with ta.<\/p>\n
Brothers Veselinovic, Radojicic, then Zeljko Bojic and Marko Rosic are said to belong to corrupt networks linked to international organized crime.<\/p>\n
Kosovo officials have welcomed US sanctions against a group of Serbs from northern Kosovo, while Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said that his country’s competent authorities will investigate whether there are “serious allegations” .\/ REL .<\/p>\n
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