Kosovo Sentences Serb Policeman for Spying for Serbian Intelligence

The Basic Court in Pristina has sentenced Kosovo Police officer Bojan Jevtić, a Kosovo Serb, to six years in prison for spying for Serbia’s state security service, the BIA. The verdict is part of a series of espionage cases in recent months that highlight the scale of tensions between Kosovo and Serbia, as well as the sensitivity of security issues in the country’s northern and border regions.

Jevtić, from Kamenica, was a lieutenant in the Kosovo Police and worked at the Dheu i Bardhe/Bela Zemlja border crossing between Kosovo and Serbia. The court found that he had used his official position to collect and pass confidential information to Serbian intelligence. In addition to the six-year prison sentence, he was fined 2,000 euros for illegal possession of a weapon.

The case concluded after the court approved a plea agreement between the defendant and the prosecution. Jevtić pleaded guilty. The court also imposed a five-year ban on holding positions in public administration, which will take effect after he has served his prison sentence.

According to the prosecution file, the officer passed information to the BIA concerning Kosovo Police operational activities, including material related to state security. As head of the operations sector at the border crossing, he allegedly gave a Serbian intelligence agent access to an official Kosovo Police computer. Investigators found that documents and operational plans were sent through the TeamViewer program, which allegedly allowed the situation at the border crossing to be monitored remotely.

Prosecutor Bekim Kodraliu said after Jevtić’s arrest that the case involved activities violating Kosovo’s law and constitutional order. According to investigators, the leaked documents concerned state security and Kosovo Police operations.

Jevtić’s lawyer, Milos Nikolić, argued that his client had served in the police since 2002 and had not held a senior position within the force. The court, however, concluded that the nature of the information to which he had access, as well as the manner in which it was transferred to Serbian intelligence, justified a prison sentence.

This is the third espionage verdict issued by the Pristina court in recent months. In late April 2026, Jelena Djukanović, an employee of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, was sentenced to six years in prison. According to the court, she supplied Serbia’s BIA with internal OSCE documents and information about the security, political and social situation in Kosovo, particularly in the four Serb-majority municipalities in the north. Djukanović pleaded not guilty.

In June 2025, Aleksandar Vlajić was sentenced to five years in prison for espionage. According to the indictment, he transmitted information to a senior BIA official, and secretly filmed and recorded the movements of Kosovo Police and Western diplomatic staff in northern Kosovo. He was also accused of collecting information about Kosovo Serbs suspected of cooperating with Kosovo security institutions.

The series of verdicts shows that Pristina regards the activity of Serbian intelligence services as one of the most serious threats to its internal security. For Kosovo’s authorities, the northern part of the country and the border crossings with Serbia remain especially sensitive areas, where questions of loyalty, institutional control and Belgrade’s influence have long been sources of tension.

The case of Bojan Jevtić therefore goes beyond a single act of disloyalty by a police officer. It shows that the Kosovo-Serbia conflict is being fought not only at the diplomatic level, but also in the sphere of intelligence, information and control over security institutions.