The first court hearing in the case against Fatmir Sheholli has been scheduled for September 7, starting at 9:30 a.m. Prosecution sources confirmed the date to RTK.
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The Special Prosecution has charged Sheholli with espionage and blackmail.
The indictment alleges that he collaborated with Serbia’s Security Intelligence Agency (BIA), while in a separate case he is suspected of blackmailing a businessman.
According to the case file, from an unspecified date until October 9, 2025, Fatmir Sheholli is suspected of acting as a BIA recruit and following the instructions of Bojan Dimić, a senior official in the agency.
According to the indictment, Dimić served as director of the Directorate for Counterterrorism and International Organized Crime within the BIA.
The Prosecution alleges that Sheholli obtained and passed on documents and information concerning political developments, the security situation and the functioning of Kosovo’s institutions.
According to the indictment, contact with the BIA official was also maintained through phone messages.
In the indictment, the Special Prosecution included several statements and public appearances by Fatmir Sheholli concerning Milan Radoičić.
According to the Prosecution, in some of those appearances Sheholli said that he believed Milan Radoičić was innocent in connection with the investigation into the murder of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanović.
The case file also includes a statement by Sheholli that Radoičić should be given the opportunity to prove his innocence.
The Prosecution also refers to other media appearances during which, it says, Sheholli portrayed Radoičić as a figure with a positive influence in northern Kosovo.
These views were included in a Kosovo Police report submitted by the Prosecution as part of the evidence supporting the espionage charge.
The indictment also mentions a television appearance in 2023, during which Sheholli held a live phone conversation with a person identified in the case materials as Milan Radoičić.
According to the Prosecution, the phone call was broadcast on June 11, 2023, on the program “Kojshia Show.”
Another part of the case concerns the October 12, 2025 local elections. The Prosecution alleges that on September 26, 2025, Sheholli traveled to North Mitrovica and received a file containing audio recordings and transcripts from an unidentified person in the parking lot of the Technical School.
According to the indictment, the materials were intended to compromise officials from the Ministry for Communities and Returns, including the office of Minister Nenad Rašić.
The Prosecution alleges that Sheholli also received 5,000 euros along with the file. According to the case materials, he subsequently gave the documents to journalist Milaim Zeka, together with 1,000 euros and a pledge to pay him another 1,000 euros.
Sheholli is suspected of instructing the journalist to publish the content on the program “Pa Rrotlla,” just days before the local elections.
The Prosecution alleges that the actions were intended to influence the electoral process and undermine the interests of the Republic of Kosovo.
The indictment also states that Sheholli told the journalist the materials had come from “German GIZ.”
According to the case file, materials were seized and communications that the Prosecution considers relevant to the case were identified during the investigation and searches conducted in connection with the case.
Conversations with individuals identified by the Prosecution as BIA officials were allegedly discovered on Sheholli’s phone.
According to the indictment, Bojan Dimić’s number was saved on the phone under several names, including “Gizi,” “Bojana” and “Journalist.”
The case file also contains documents marked “Top Secret 2,” which the Prosecution links to plans aimed at destabilization.
It also mentions a 2001 document from Serbia’s RDB under the codename “Leptiri.” According to the Prosecution, it is linked to efforts to compromise Albin Kurti while he was being held in prison in Niš.
The indictment also includes handwritten notes that the Prosecution considers to be operational intelligence.
Part of the material also concerns financial transactions that, according to the Prosecution, were recorded in Sheholli’s bank account.
According to the case file, payments from Serbian institutions, including “Tanjug” and “Kancelarija za KiM,” were recorded in his account at Komercijalna Banka during 2015.
The Prosecution has submitted this information as part of the evidence in the case.
In addition to espionage, Sheholli also faces a blackmail charge.
According to the indictment, from 2022 until December 2025, he is suspected of blackmailing businessman Arben Jetullahu by threatening to publish video recordings and materials that, according to the Prosecution, could damage his reputation.
The Prosecution alleges that through these threats, Sheholli forced the victim to give him more than 13,000 euros.
According to the indictment, the demands for payment continued even after Sheholli was remanded in custody in Gjilan.
The Prosecution says that, through his son and other intermediaries, he demanded monthly payments of 700 euros, repeatedly threatening that the videos would be published.
In the indictment filed with the Basic Court in Pristina, the Special Prosecution has asked that Fatmir Sheholli be found guilty of the criminal offenses with which he is charged.
The Prosecution has also requested that his detention on remand be extended and that the seized funds and property be confiscated in accordance with the requests set out in the indictment.
