Radio Free Europe has found that the company “Rad 028,” owned by Radulle Steviq, is not located at the address in Kosovo where it is listed as registered in the Serbian system.
However, this has not prevented Serbian institutions from awarding the company contracts worth millions of euros for construction work.
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For five years, Steviq and his company have been under United States sanctions because of ties to Milan Radoiçiq and Zvonko Vesellinoviq, as well as allegations related to organized crime and corruption.
In Kosovo, Steviq is also accused of involvement in the armed attack in Banjska.
Tender documentation in Serbia’s public procurement database, analyzed by Radio Free Europe, shows that since the beginning of this year alone, Serbian institutions have signed ten contracts with his company worth more than one million euros.
This happened even though the company has still not completed more than 20 previous jobs entrusted to it in Serb-majority areas in Kosovo.
On the ground, no machinery or workers were seen, and Radio Free Europe was unable to verify whether the works that are officially listed as completed were actually carried out.
According to Kosovo’s indictment over the Banjska attack, Steviq, through his companies, helped the leader of the armed group, Milan Radoiçiq, launder money.
These accusations are rejected by official Belgrade, which does not recognize Kosovo as a state.
In circumstances where the two systems do not recognize each other, Steviq’s company continues to cooperate with Serbian institutions, even though its owner is wanted on an international arrest warrant at Kosovo’s request.
Radulle Steviq’s current whereabouts are unknown.
Police and prosecutors in Belgrade did not respond to Radio Free Europe on whether he is in Serbia and whether an investigation is being conducted against him.
Likewise, RFE/RL received no response either from Steviq’s company or from the Serbian institutions that continue to sign contracts with it.
Among the projects entrusted to the company are the renovation of schools, hospitals, churches and monasteries in Serb-majority areas in Kosovo, as well as the construction of homes for citizens in need.
The company headquarters have long been empty
In Serbia’s business registry, the headquarters of Radulle Steviq’s company is listed in a building in the center of Zveçan, in northern Kosovo.
But at that address, Radio Free Europe found a vacant multi-story building.
The doors were locked and there was no sign indicating that “Rad 028” operates there.
“No one has been there for a long time. It’s empty,” a resident of Zveçan, who asked to remain anonymous, told Radio Free Europe.
The building where “Rad 028” is registered and which, according to citizens interviewed by RFE/RL, has been “empty for a long time.” RFE/RL found no one in the building.
Other residents of Zveçan told Radio Free Europe that the company has moved to Rashkë, a town in Serbia near the border with Kosovo.
RFE/RL was unable to independently verify that claim.
A Radio Free Europe team visited six locations in Kosovo where, according to contracts signed with Serbian institutions over the past year and a half, “Rad 028” was supposed to carry out construction work.
No active work was seen at any of those sites.
Informational signs, which usually indicate the investor and the company implementing the project, were also missing.
Radio Free Europe could not confirm whether the works had been carried out in recent months and who performed them, as the company did not respond to questions.
Who does “Rad 028” work with?
Most of the contracts secured by Radulle Steviq’s company came from temporary municipal bodies established under Serbia’s laws.
These institutions operated in Serb-majority municipalities in Kosovo until 2024, when Kosovo authorities shut them down, considering them illegal.
However, they continued working from alternative locations in Serbian towns near the border with Kosovo.
Radio Free Europe asked these bodies about the criteria under which they award contracts to “Rad 028” and about how the projects it implements are supervised, given that its owner is under indictment in Kosovo and under international sanctions.
Neither the temporary municipal bodies, nor the Government of Serbia, nor its Office for Kosovo responded to RFE/RL’s questions.
Over the past three years, Kosovo authorities have halted a number of construction projects financed by Belgrade, arguing that they lacked the necessary permits from Kosovo institutions.
Of the ten contracts “Rad 028” has signed with Serbian institutions since the start of 2026, only two appear in the public procurement register as completed.
One of them concerns the supply of New Year’s packages for primary school pupils in Kosovo.
During 2025, the company signed more than 30 contracts worth over 6.4 million euros.
These contracts include the construction of homes for families in need, as well as the renovation of schools, kindergartens and hospitals in several municipalities in Kosovo.
Educational and health institutions in Serb-majority areas in Kosovo continue to function within Serbia’s system.
According to official data, 20 of the contracts from 2025 have still not been completed.
Meanwhile, 11 others are listed as completed, including house construction and the renovation of public buildings.
Radio Free Europe was unable to verify on the ground whether these works were actually carried out, namely whether the houses were built and the buildings renovated.
The financial statements of “Rad 028,” published in Serbia’s business registry, show that in 2025 it had only nine employees and generated revenues of more than 8.7 million euros.
The documents do not show whether the company engaged subcontractors or other partners to carry out projects financed by state institutions.
According to tender documentation analyzed by Radio Free Europe, “Rad 028” has over the years cooperated with several companies mentioned in Kosovo’s indictment over the Banjska attack, as part of a suspected money-laundering scheme.
In Llapnasellë, Radulle Steviq’s company was assigned the task of renovating the roof and painting the left wing of the Clinical Hospital Center.
This contract, worth around 200,000 euros, was awarded by the temporary body of the municipality of Prishtina, established under the Serbian system.
The Clinical Hospital Center, which operates within Serbia’s healthcare system, was moved from Prishtina to Graçanicë and Llapnasellë after the war in Kosovo in 1999.
Even today, some services are provided in metal containers, while the facility has been expanded piece by piece over the years.
During its field visit, Radio Free Europe was unable to verify whether the roof had been renovated and whether the left wing of the building had been painted, as provided for in the contract.
By the publication of this article, the Clinical Hospital Center had not confirmed that the work had been carried out.
The Government of Serbia announced as early as 2018 that it would finance the construction of a new hospital in Graçanicë, but work on that project has still not begun.
Three contracts in a single day
In July 2025, “Rad 028” won three tenders in a single day, with a total value of around 250,000 euros.
All three contracts were awarded by the “Prishtina” Student Center, based in North Mitrovica, for works on its facilities, from painting, plastering and facade repairs, to replacing roofs and windows.
According to Serbia’s public procurement system, analyzed by Radio Free Europe, the works are listed as completed in October and November 2025.
However, during a field visit, Radio Free Europe was unable to determine which works had been carried out.
The Student Center, which functions within Serbia’s education system, also provided no clarification.
The center manages dormitories, the canteen, the polyclinic and other services for students of the University of Prishtina, which, after the 1999 war, moved to North Mitrovica.
Opposite the Student Center stands the unfinished university building.
Its construction is financed by the Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia, but in July 2023 Kosovo authorities suspended the works, arguing that the project did not have a construction permit.
This building too was being constructed by Radulle Steviq’s company.
Radio Free Europe asked Kosovo’s Ministry of Local Government Administration whether it had knowledge of projects financed and implemented by Serbian institutions in Kosovo, but by the publication of this article it had not received a response.
There was also no response to questions about whether these projects are supervised by Kosovo institutions and whether, after the indictment against Steviq was filed, his company’s projects in Serb-majority areas had been suspended.
School in Zveçan
In Zveçan, “Rad 028” was entrusted with repairing part of the roof and renovating the toilets of an elementary school.
The value of this contract is around 40,000 euros.
According to the public procurement database, the project is still not listed as completed.
The contract, signed in December 2025, provides a one-year deadline for carrying out the work.
However, during a field visit, Radio Free Europe saw neither work being done nor a sign indicating that the project was under implementation.
Work also on religious buildings
In the village of Zherovnicë, near Zveçan, “Rad 028” was entrusted in January 2026 with renovation and expansion works on the village church.
The 120,000-euro contract includes repairs and expansion of the church, chapel and an auxiliary building.
These works were contracted by the temporary body of the municipality of Zveçan, with a one-year completion deadline.
During a field visit, Radio Free Europe was unable to verify whether the works had begun or what had been completed by that time.
The building opposite the church appeared to have been recently renovated or expanded, but there was no evidence that it was the contracted project.
Radio Free Europe also asked the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo whether the works had been carried out and who was implementing them, but by the publication of this article it had not received a response.
There was also no response to the question of whether the Raška-Prizren Diocese was aware that works on religious buildings under its administration had been awarded to a company whose owner is accused in Kosovo of money laundering.
The church in Zherovnicë is not the only religious building where “Rad 028” has won contracts.
The entrance to the church in Zherovnicë, near Zveçan. June 2026.
The company has also taken on the reconstruction of a building inside the yard of another church near Zveçan, worth around 60,000 euros, as well as the construction of an ethno-village near the Draganci Monastery, near Gjilan.
For the latter project, the company is expected to receive more than 1.2 million euros.
This contract was signed in June 2025, with a one-year completion deadline, but it still does not appear as completed in the public procurement register.
In April 2025, Radulle Steviq’s company also won a contract worth around 280,000 euros to build fire-access roads and a shelter for machinery near a cold storage warehouse in Badovc, near Graçanicë.
The contract, with a six-month completion deadline, was awarded by the temporary body of the municipality of Prishtina.
During the first half of 2025, the company also won two other tenders, with a total value of around 300,000 euros, for additional works in the same complex, including the construction of an electrical substation and a reservoir for organic farm waste.
There is still no paved road leading to the cold storage warehouse. June 2026.
The cold storage warehouse and the other facilities are located on property belonging to the Raška-Prizren Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
At this complex, the Graçanicë Monastery manages an agricultural operation with cattle and poultry farms, as well as facilities for processing milk, meat, fruit and vegetables.
According to information obtained by Radio Free Europe, the poultry farm is still not operational.
The field visit also showed that the road which, according to the contracts, was supposed to lead to the cold storage warehouse and the poultry farm, does not exist.
Likewise, the three contracts providing for the construction of this road and the machinery shelter still do not appear as completed in the public procurement register, even though their completion deadlines have passed.
An unpaved road located on monastery property in Graçanicë.
In November last year, “Rad 028” also won another contract, worth around 187,000 euros, for the reconstruction of a gravel road in Badovc.
The contract was supposed to be completed within three months, but this too still does not appear as completed.
Dragani, a resident of Badovc, told Radio Free Europe he had no knowledge of this investment.
“What I do know is that recently two short roads were asphalted, around 200 meters each. I don’t know who built them,” he said.
One of the roads in Badovc. June 2026.
“Work was also done on the water supply system, but that has not been completed either,” Dragani added.
Radio Free Europe also asked the leadership of the Municipality of Graçanicë whether it was aware of the contracts that “Rad 028” had won in this municipality and surrounding areas, but by the publication of this article it had not received a response.
A road in Badovc photographed in June 2026.
Who is Radulle Steviq?
Radulle Steviq has registered his companies in both Kosovo’s system and Serbia’s system.
For years, he benefited from public contracts worth millions of euros from institutions in both Belgrade and Prishtina.
But after the United States imposed sanctions on him, Kosovo institutions stopped awarding him contracts, while Serbian ones continued to engage him.
Million-euro contracts from Serbia for the company included in the Banjska indictment
The Banjska indictment: How did Steviq and his company help Radoiçiq?
Radulle Steviq and his tenders from Kosovo institutions
According to the indictment of Kosovo’s Special Prosecution, Steviq, through his companies, helped Milan Radoiçiq “turn proceeds obtained from criminal activity into assets” and conceal their origin.
For the criminal offense of money laundering, of which he is accused in Kosovo, he faces up to ten years in prison.
The indictment also includes his companies registered in Kosovo and Serbia.
According to the prosecution, the way these companies operated was decided by Milan Radoiçiq, who, through money laundering and criminal activities, had created influence and control over northern Kosovo.
Radoiçiq, who has publicly admitted organizing the armed attack in Banjska in September 2023, is accused in Kosovo of terrorism and serious offenses against the constitutional order.
According to the indictment, he was the leader of the armed group that aimed to forcibly detach northern Kosovo and unite it with Serbia.
In the Banjska attack, Kosovo police officer Afrim Bunjaku was killed, while three Serb attackers were also killed during the exchange of fire.
On April 24, the first verdict related to the Banjska case was announced in Kosovo: two defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment, while another received 30 years in prison.
More than 40 other defendants remain out of reach of Kosovo’s justice system.
Serbian authorities have ignored both this indictment and the court ruling in Kosovo.
They have also taken no measures after the international sanctions imposed on Milan Radoiçiq, Zvonko Vesellinoviq and their associates.
Radoiçiq is in Serbia, where he is subject to a ban on leaving the country.
The indictment that the Belgrade prosecution had announced in the Banjska case has still not been filed.
