Kosovo Intelligence Agency
Appearance
Agency overview | |
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Formed | February 4, 2009 |
Preceding agency |
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Headquarters | Pristina, Kosovo |
Employees | Classified |
Agency executive |
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Website | www.aki-rks.org |
The Kosovo Intelligence Agency (KIA; Albanian: Agjencia Kosovare e Inteligjencës, abbr. AKI) is a civilian intelligence agency of Kosovo responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior Kosovo policymakers.[1]
Mission
AKI mission is to identify threats detrimental to the security of Kosovo. A threat to the security of Kosovo shall in any event be considered a threat against the territorial integrity, integrity of the institutions, the constitutional order, the economic stability and development, as well as threats against global security detrimental to Kosovo.[2]
We accomplish this Mission, through collecting and analyzing information about:
- Incitement, aiding and abetting or advocating terrorism
- Espionage against Kosovo or detrimental to the security of Kosovo
- Sabotage directed against Kosovo's vital infrastructure
- Organized crime against Kosovo or detrimental to the security of Kosovo in any other way, including money laundering
- Inciting the disaffection in security structures
- Trafficking of illegal substances, weapons or human beings
- Illegal manufacturing or transport of mass destruction weapons, or their components
- Illegal trafficking of products and technologies under International Control
- Activities that contravene international humanitarian law
- Acts of organized violence or intimidation against ethnic or religious groups in Kosovo, and
- Matters related to severe threats to public health or safety
Director
Name | From | Until |
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Bashkim Smakaj[3] | 2009 | January 2015[4] |
Agron Selimaj[5] | January 2015 | 27 January 2017[6] |
Driton Gashi[7] | 8 February 2017 | 10 April 2018[8] |
Shpend Maxhuni[9] | 20 April 2018 | 6 November 2019[10] |
Kreshnik Gashi[11] | 25 November 2019 | 22 December 2020 [12] |
Petrit Ajeti[13] | 15 April 2021 | Incumbent |
References
- ^ ":: Gazetazyrtare.com :: - LAW ON THE KOSOVO INTELLIGENCE AGENCY". www.gazetazyrtare.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-11.
- ^ "A K I".
- ^ "Kosovo names first Director of new intelligence agency". 10 February 2009.
- ^ "Jep dorëheqje shefi i AKI-së, Bashkim Smakaj". 16 January 2015.
- ^ "A K I".
- ^ "Jep dorëheqje drejtori i AKI-së Agron Selimaj".
- ^ "Biografia e Shefit të ri të AKI-së, Driton Gashi".
- ^ "Shefi i AKI-së i ofron dorëheqjen kryeministrit Haradinaj". 10 April 2018.
- ^ "Shpend Maxhuni emërohet drejtori i ri i AKI-së". 20 April 2018.
- ^ "Jep dorëheqje drejtori i AKI-së, Shpend Maxhuni". 6 November 2019.
- ^ "Profil/ Kush është Kreshnik Gashi, drejtori i ri i AKI-së?". sinjali.com (in Albanian). 2019-11-25.
- ^ "Shefi i AKI'së, Kreshnik Gashi ende nuk ka dhënë dorëheqje nga pozita". gazetametro.net (in Albanian). 2020-12-18.
- ^ "Kush është Petrit Ajeti, shefi i ri i AKI-së?". 15 April 2021.