Petkovic: Kurti's police threatened representatives of Henderson and NBS with arrest, the transitional period is a lie

The Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Petar Petkovic said today that by the order of the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, the passage of another shipment of dinars intended for the payment of salaries, pensions and social benefits for the Serbs and other non-Albanian residents of Kosovo, whose survival depended on the inflow of funds from the budget of the Republic of Serbia, had been prohibited at the Jarinje crossing.

"Members of Kurti's police not only prohibited the entry of dinars, but they demonstrated rudeness and arrogance towards the representatives of the National Bank of Serbia and the Henderson company at the administrative crossing, and then chased them away with the threat of arrest. With that, Kurti clearly said that the so-called transition period was a pure lie, and that work was ongoing all the time to operationalize the decision to ban dinars," Petkovic said in a statement.

He adds that the money was sent according to all established decades-long procedures, which stipulate that the shipment of dinars at the Jarinje crossing with all the certificates is taken over by the British company "Henderson" and transported to the vault in Leposavic, but the entry of dinars is prohibited.

"Kurti's "transitional period" is nothing more than a colorful lie designed to deceive political circles in the West who clearly told him that by attacking the elementary conditions for the survival of the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, he went too far. It is obvious that Kurti's messages that the dinar is not banned in Kosovo and Metohija are a lie and shameless propaganda, and that his plan for the ethnic cleansing of the Serbs from the province is being implemented without any hesitation," he states.

Petkovic recalls that one shipment of dinars was already blocked on February 7 at the Jarinje crossing, and the same as this time, without any official explanation or rejection.