The authorities in Kosovo said that they have closed the vault of the Savings Bank of the Post of Serbia and its five other subsidiaries in the four municipalities in the north of Kosovo, which are inhabited by a majority of Serbs.

The Kosovo Police said that the action in the north of Kosovo was carried out following the reports of the financial monitoring institutions, such as the financial intelligence unit and the Central Bank of Kosovo, together with the Tax Administration of Kosovo.

In the announcement of the Kosovo Police, it was said that the action has passed without any problems or incidents.

“The purpose of the police operation is to establish order and legality, where with the authorization of the competent prosecutor, six units of the so-called illegal postal savings bank in the north of the country have been closed,” said the police.

Members of the European Union Mission for the Rule of Law in Kosovo (EULEX) have been seen participating in the action in Zveçan.

The action of the Kosovo authorities comes a week after the Central Bank of Kosovo announced that the transitional period for its regulation, which prohibits the use of the Serbian dinar for making payments, has ended.

The CBK regulation, which foresees the euro as the only currency for making payments, has been strongly opposed by Serbia.

Serbia allocates aid worth millions of euros to Serbs in Kosovo, paying their salaries, pensions and additional aid, in the Serbian currency, the dinar.

The CBK said on May 13 that after the end of the transitional period, it has licensed eight branches of financial institutions in municipalities with a Serbian majority, in Leposaviq, Zveçan, Graçanicë, Shtërpcë and one in Shillovo in Gjilan.

The international community has asked Kosovo to postpone the implementation of the CBK regulation, referring to the impact it may have on the Serbian community in Kosovo, which accepts various payments in dinars from the Serbian budget.