Acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti stated that Serbia is continuing its efforts to destabilize Kosovo. According to him, Kosovo’s intelligence and security institutions are “successfully countering these efforts.”
“While we are engaging in strengthening partnerships with allied, democratic, and peace-loving states, our aggressive neighbor – Serbia – continues its efforts to destabilize our country. However, the intelligence and security institutions of the Republic are successfully countering these attempts. This includes the arrest of individuals responsible, with evidence of their activities against Kosovo. Among them is the case of Bojan Jevtić, a lieutenant in the Kosovo Police, arrested on July 17, 2025, on well-founded suspicions of espionage activities in the Republic of Kosovo on behalf of the Security and Intelligence Agency (BIA), aiming to endanger overall security and specifically the operations of the Kosovo Police. And also Igor Popović, deputy director of the so-called Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia, arrested on July 18, 2025, for inciting ethnic division and intolerance,” Kurti stated during a meeting of the acting government.
Regarding Igor Popović, the deputy director of the so-called Office for Kosovo in the Serbian Government, Kurti said that Kosovo’s institutions have obtained evidence of his ties to BIA.
“Our institutions have gathered evidence of his connections to the Security and Intelligence Agency (BIA) and his involvement in activities serving its interests. Among these is the illegal recording of conversations dated September 17, 2020, which took place in Brussels at the European Union premises, as part of the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue. There were also efforts to obstruct and sabotage justice, along with other activities that threaten the national security of our country. The latest case, involving the secret and illegal recording of conversations in Brussels, is an extremely serious matter that reveals, in a way not seen before, Serbia’s systematic, destructive, subversive, and sabotaging approach toward the parties, the mediator, and the EU-facilitated dialogue process itself,” Kurti added.
