Seholi Charged With Spying for Serbia's BIA

Pristina’s Special Prosecution indicted Fatmir Seholi, director of the Institute for the Affirmation of Interethnic Relations in Pristina, on August 25 for espionage and extortion. The indictment arrived almost ten months after his arrest on October 9, 2025, during which he remained in detention.

According to the prosecution, Seholi, from an unspecified date until the day of his arrest, assisted the work of Serbia’s Security Information Agency (BIA) and gathered information for it on political developments and the functioning of institutions in Pristina. In its statement on the indictment, the prosecution said:

From an unspecified date until October 9, 2025, he assisted the activities of the Security Information Agency (BIA) and gathered information for it.

The indictment names Bojan Dimic as the BIA officer Seholi was in contact with. According to testimony cited by the prosecution, Seholi did not deny keeping in touch with him since 2013 or 2014, at one point describing him as a man from the cabinet of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, and later, in a statement from August 14, as a BIA official. He denied, however, having acted against Kosovo’s interests.

Ministry materials and a payment to a journalist

Part of the indictment covers the period before the local elections held on October 12, 2025. The prosecution alleges Seholi obtained audio recordings and transcripts of conversations involving officials of the Ministry for Communities and Returns, then headed by Nenad Rasic, and was paid 5,000 euros for them. He then passed the material to journalist Miljaim Zeka.

Per the indictment, Zeka received 1,000 euros along with instructions on how to publish it. Zeka himself maintains the agreed sum was 2,000 euros and that he did not know the material came from BIA, having been told instead that it came from a former worker at Germany’s GIZ. The operation began on September 30, 2025, when the “Pa Rrotlla” profile announced the material would be published, and the first audio recording on the ministry’s work came out that same evening. Seholi was arrested ten days later, on October 9, in a separate step of the investigation.

Police seized 3,185 euros from Seholi at the time of his arrest, and the prosecution has asked for that sum to be confiscated once the proceedings are finally concluded.

Extortion of a businessman for 13,000 euros

The second count of the indictment charges Seholi with extortion. Citing case files published today by Kosovo media, the KoSSev portal reports the injured party is Arben Jetulahu, the owner of a company in Kosovo, though the prosecution’s official statement referred to him only by the initials A.J. The prosecution said:

From 2022 until December 2025, he extorted the injured party A.J., forcing him to act to the detriment of his own property, in an amount exceeding 13,000 euros.

According to the indictment, Seholi asked Jetulahu for money under the guise of a loan, threatening to release videos and information that would damage his reputation. Part of the charge also covers the period after Seholi was already in detention: according to an intercepted call with his family at the detention center in Gnjilane, dated December 8, 2025, he gave instructions for the pressure on the victim to continue through a third party.

The “Butterflies” and “Top Secret 2” files

According to Kosovo media, the indictment also cites two documents found on Seholi’s phone. The first, called “Butterflies,” is described as material from 2001, an alleged plan by Serbia’s State Security Service of the time to compromise and recruit Albin Kurti while he was serving a prison sentence. The second, “Top Secret 2,” contains a projection on weakening Kosovo in the long term by strengthening religious influence, which the prosecution says is part of the evidence on the nature of Seholi’s contacts with BIA.

According to Kosovo media, Seholi told the prosecution he acknowledged part of the contacts and the forwarding of some material, but disputed that he had thereby acted against Kosovo’s interests or worked for a foreign intelligence service. He said he does not consider himself guilty of any of the charges against him.

The case has now been referred to the Basic Court in Pristina for further review. The prosecution has asked that Seholi remain in detention until the proceedings conclude, and has proposed that Nenad Rasic and Miljaim Zeka be heard as the injured party and a witness, respectively.