The Kosovo Police have initiated an investigation into the posters that were placed in the north of Kosovo – in the municipalities of Leposavic and Zubin Potok – between Saturday night and Sunday, which showed a photograph of Milan Radoičić with the message “Come back to Kosovo, brother – Serbs can’t suffer anymore”.

The start of the investigation was confirmed by the deputy director of the police for the northern region, Veton Elshani, to Radio Free Europe.

Milan Radoičić was the vice president of the largest party of Serbs in Kosovo, the Serb List, but resigned after taking responsibility for the armed attack against the police in the village of Banjska, in north Kosovo on September 24 last year, where a police officer was killed.

The police have stated that “unknown individuals have placed posters on the walls and windows of buildings, as well as on electric poles”, and that the case is under investigation.

This was preceded by the posting of posters in Leposavic, with a photo of Radoičić with blood on his face and the message “Who is Radoičić? A fake patriot. Suspected of killing many Serbs in Kosovo. The owner of a drug lab. A criminal who abused our youth for his enrichment. A terrorist”. At the bottom of the posters, it was written “Say NO to the terrorist organization (Serb List)”.

Regarding this case, the Kosovo Police stated that the prosecutor has decided that there is no basis for opening the case.

Radoičić is on the U.S. blacklist for involvement in international organized crime, and Kosovo is seeking him for trial, while the Kosovo Prosecutor’s Office links him to the murder of politician Oliver Ivanović.

Tensions have risen again in Kosovo following the decision of the Central Bank of Kosovo that from February 1, the sole currency for payment transactions will be the euro, implying the removal of the Serbian dinar.

So far, dinars have come to Kosovo from Serbia through the National Bank of Serbia, which has a branch in Leposavic, a municipality with a Serbian majority in north Kosovo.

So far, dinars have been used by the Postal Savings Bank, NLB Komercijalna Banka, and the Public Company Posta of Serbia. This decision by Kosovo was strongly opposed by Belgrade, while the international community urged authorities in Pristina to postpone the implementation of the decision.

Also, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Kosovo, Xhelal Sveçla, has confirmed that on February 2, three municipalities in Peja, Istog, and Klina were closed in a police operation, which operated parallel to the Serbian system, and said that the only institution of Serbia in Kosovo will be its embassy in Pristina.

Before this, Kosovar authorities also closed four Serbian parallel municipalities operating illegally in the Dragash region in south Kosovo.