Hoxha on 'Rajska Banja': The Kosovo Privatization Agency has a list of other contentious properties in northern Kosovo

It is true that the Kosovo Privatization Agency has some list where dozens of land or property ownerships of this agency are currently not at their disposal, mostly in four municipalities in northern Kosovo, a journalist and editor-in-chief of ATV, Leart Hoxha says to Radio KiM. He adds that they are recorded in their property lists and "lists for which they officially have the right to put them through the privatization process".

Hoxha sees nothing controversial in the Kosovo Privatization Agency taking over the facilities in the "Rajska Banja" complex in Banjska, but he finds it problematic that, as he says, the authorities in Pristina present this as a political triumph.

"If some land, hotel, or facility is public property, and if the Kosovo Privatization Agency or any public institution of Kosovo should manage that public property on the territory of Kosovo, in principle, there is nothing controversial. Trying to present this as a significant political triumph is a mistake in the way they communicate with the public. Otherwise, if it is public property and if there are public institutions there, there is nothing controversial", Hoxha emphasizes.

Before "Rajska Banja", Kosovo authorities seized the property of Milan Radoicic, including a villa on Lake Gazivode, an apartment in Kosovska Mitrovica, cars, and other assets. The villa at Gazivode is supposed to be handed over for use by the Kosovo Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as the Rajska Banja complex.

When asked what the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kosovo would do with this facility, Hoxha says there are two options.

"Either you give it to public institutions for them to manage... I don't know what the Ministry of Internal Affairs will do with these facilities, but I know that the alternative is to demolish these facilities because they were built illegally. If Milan Radoicic's facility is demolished, the entire ecosystem around Gazivode will be significantly compromised. If something illegal is built, then it is the responsibility of institutions to manage and govern public property, and I think that is a much better option than demolishing them. Whichever ministry manages these facilities, it's better than demolishing them and worsening the ecological situation and the entire ecosystem around the lake. The same goes for the facility in Banjska", Hoxha says.