Counterintelligence & Tradecraft — 2026-05-21

Kosovo Jails Serb Policeman for Six Years for Spying for Serbian Intelligence Agency BIA

BLUFThree BIA convictions inside Kosovo's security services in under a year point to entrenched Serbian penetration, and the plea-driven prosecutions leave the wider agent network intact.

The Pristina Basic Court on May 19 sentenced Kosovo Police lieutenant Bojan Jevtic, in detention since July 2025, to six years for espionage and a 2,000-euro fine for illegal weapon possession under a guilty plea deal 12. DTT-NET reported the deal spared Jevtic a sentence otherwise ranging from ten years to life 3. Prosecution records seen by Balkan Insight state that Jevtic, as operations head at the Dheu i Bardhe/Bela Zemlja border crossing, granted a BIA agent remote access to his official police computer via TeamViewer and transmitted Kosovo Police operational plans related to state security 1. The court additionally imposed a five-year post-sentence ban from public administration functions, to run after his prison term 12.

Analysis
Three BIA espionage convictions inside Kosovo's security apparatus within eleven months, drawn from a single Prishtina courtroom with no independent sourcing beyond parallel Balkan Insight coverage, establish a pattern of systematic Serbian intelligence penetration rather than opportunistic recruitment. TeamViewer access Jevtic granted gave BIA real-time visibility into Kosovo Police border operations; how long that access ran before his July 2025 detention remains undisclosed. Guilty pleas across all three cases prioritize prosecutorial efficiency over network mapping, leaving BIA's current operational footprint unresolved. Jevtic's long tenure at a single low-grade crossing may instead mark him as a peripheral asset, making the three-conviction pattern an artifact of aggressive prosecution rather than deep institutional penetration.

3 sources

Kosovo Jails Serb Policeman for Spying for Serbian Intelligence - Balkan Insight
Kosovo Jails Serb Policeman for Spying for Serbian Intelligence - Prishtina Insight
Kosovo Serb policeman sentenced on charges of spying for Serbia - DTT-NET