CZECH DRUG CENTRAL HEAD SAYS KOSOVO-ALBANIAN MAFIA IS THREATENING HIM

DRUG CENTRAL HEAD SAYS KOSOVO-ALBANIAN GANGS INTIMIDATE HIM
CTK Czech News Agency - March 16, 2005

PRAGUE, March 16 (CTK) - The director of the National Drug Central (NPC), Jiri Komorous, said today he is being intimidated by a person who is working on the order of Kosovo-Albanian drug gangs.

Komorous said he had got threatening SMS messages into his mobile telephone and his wife also got a threatening letter.

According to Komorous the threats' author is the same person who attacked him similarly in the mid-1990s.

He is very intelligent and has links to both former and present security forces, Komorous said.

"He is working on the order of Kosovo-Albanian drug gangs," he told journalists.

Komorous said the threatens had been probably prompted by the police's stepped-up pressure on these criminal structures over the past three months.

"Eleven actions have been carried out in the first quarter of the year, in which 200,000 doses of drugs to the total value of 17,450,000 crowns ($ 1=22.133 crowns) were seized and 37 perpetrators, including ten foreigners, detained," Komorous said.

He said that compared with the average number of anti-drug actions the intensity of this year's actions is "very high."

The detained foreigners are mainly ethnic Albanians and Vietnamese.

Komorous said he had known the threats authors since the mid- 1990s.

He said the person was then sending to journalists anonymous information saying that has links to drug cartels, that he returns the drugs the police seize back to the market, that he himself uses them, that he is an alcoholic, a sexual pervert and a murderer.

Komorous said he had then filed a criminal complaint, but the investigation was shelved for lack of evidence in 1999.

He said that after a pause of several years, the anonymous writer called him again to his duty mobile phone in March and asked him for a meeting, which Komorous rejected.

Several days later he got an SMS message sent from an anonymous mobile phone, in which the author threatened him that he will soon learn what justice is about.

Komorous's wife got an anonymous letter asserting that her husband has sexual relations with his female colleagues.

Komorous said the person's work method shows signs of the procedures the communist secret police StB used. The method is called "active measures," which means a method of spreading disinformation, Komorous said.

"A special police group has been working on the case," Komorous said. He refused to give the man's name, but added that two journalists know it. "We dub him Merde," Komorous said.

Asked whether the threats orderers come from the group which threatened a state attorney from Plzen, west Bohemia, who is working on the case of Faton Gasi, recently, Komorous said that they are not directly from the group.

"But there is a certain contact," he said.

Gasi and other people have been accused of dealing in drugs. The police say that his accomplices planned to physically liquidate the state attorney to prevent her from submitting the indictment to the court within a year of the charges having brought against them.

Gasi would thus be released from custody and could flee.

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