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"Fewer cases are being left for the following year, but the essence is in the manner in which the cases are resolved," said Driton Demhasaj, director of the NGO 'Cohu', which has spent the past five years monitoring corruption cases in Kosovo.

BIRN's TV show on Wednesday revealed corrupt practices at the laboratory of the Kosovo National Institute of Public Health, NIPHK, which resulted in the arrest of a lab technician who offered to speed up COVID-19 tests for money.

While the rules in Kosovo stipulate that no single investor can produce more than three megawatts of solar energy, BIRN can reveal that one man - Blerim Devolli - stands behind six companies awarded rights to produce a combined 16.7 MW, more than half of Kosovo's total solar power production.

The Belgrade-funded parallel health system run by the Serbian minority in Kosovo is sending its COVID-19 test results to Serbia - with very little or no collaboration with Kosovo's own institutions.

Not only tests for COVID-19 in Serb-run municipalities in Kosovo but also the subsequent treatment of severe cases is taking place in Serbia.

The leader of Kosovo's Vetevendosje (Self-determination) Movement and likely next prime minister, Albin Kurti, has said that the Serbian and Kosovo presidents should no longer run the currently stalled EU-led dialogue between the two countries.

In an interview with BIRN's TV show Jeta ne Kosove, the President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, said the authorities were investigating why the head of Serbia's Kosovo office, Marko Djuric, was paraded publicly through the streets in handcuffs after his arrest.