Azem Syla

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Azem Syla (born April 5, 1951 in Kišna Reka near Glogovac , SFR Yugoslavia , today Kosovo ) is a former Kosovar politician .

Syla received her PhD in political science from the Leibniz University Institute of Arts and Science in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2006 . During the Kosovo War from 1998 to 1999 he was Chief of Staff of the Liberation Army of Kosovo . After the war he was Kosovo's Minister of Defense. In December 2010 he was elected to the Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo .

In 1994 he traveled to Switzerland with his wife and three children, where he was granted asylum . In 2012, Syla, who lived in Switzerland, was removed from the country again . In its judgment of February 2012, the Solothurn Administrative Court wrote that Syla, who lived in Switzerland at the time, had "exploited or even abused the local social system for years in a considerable manner". These are supplementary benefits obtained “wrongly” in the amount of 426,000 Swiss francs. In 2014, the public prosecutor closed the case against Syla, the allegation of having obtained supplementary benefits by fraud cannot be substantiated.

In April 2016, Syla was arrested in Kosovo. The Kosovar public prosecutor's office accuses him of being the leader of a corruption gang of 38 criminals who stole real estate worth 30 million euros. The allegation is bribery, money laundering, fraud, abuse of office, falsification of documents and tax evasion. Syla subsequently resigned from the Kosovar parliament. Since then, the Solothurn public prosecutor's office has been investigating a retrial for fraud, as Syla is said to have committed the offenses accused of him in Kosovo as early as 2006 and at that time he was officially living in the Solothurn area and was still receiving social benefits for five years.

Syla has been implicated in human rights violations, and in 2010 the Swiss Dick Marty wrote in a report that Syla commissioned murder and torture during the Kosovo war and that he was a key figure in several war crimes. It was investigated against him, there was never a verdict.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Azem Syla, Permanent President of Honor of International Conference Business and Employment.
  2. ^ Azem Syla on the website of the Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo .
  3. ↑ a b c Fiona Endres: The social welfare recipient and the criminal network in Kosovo. SonntagsZeitung , October 30, 2016, accessed October 31, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Will Azem Syla be charged soon? In: Solothurner Zeitung . 5th September 2014.
  5. ↑ Blick, 480,000 francs for Kosovo politicians , November 11, 2014
  6. ↑ Azem Syla goes to court in Kosovo - case could be reopened. In: Solothurner Zeitung . 5th April 2017.
  7. ↑ Franz Schaible: AKSO would welcome a retrial against Azem Syla. In: Solothurner Zeitung . 17th December 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Syla, Azem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kosovar politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Kišna Reka near Glogovac , SFR Yugoslavia , today Kosovo