The Prishtina Basic Court on Monday found Jelena Djukanovic, an employee of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, guilty of spying for Serbia.

The court found that she supplied Serbia’s intelligence agency, the BIA, with internal OSCE documents and information about the security, political and social situation in Kosovo – particularly about the four Serb-majority municipalities in the north of the country.

Djukanovic, who was the OSCE Mission’s National Programme Office at the Mitrovica Regional Office in north Kosovo, was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment. She had pleaded not guilty.

Her lawyer, Predrag Milkovic, said after the verdict that he “will appeal and fight up to the Constitutional Court”.

According to the prosecution, Djukanovic passed the sensitive information to the BIA at its offices in Belgrade.

“[She] offered data, documents and sensitive information obtained while performing her duty as part of activities within the OSCE Mission. The help was realised through communications with Aleksandar Vlajic, a BIA resident agent who has already been convicted of espionage,” prosecutor Bekim Kodraliu told the court in September 2025.

A Prishtina court in June 2025 sentenced Vlajic to five years’ imprisonment for espionage.

According to the indictment, Vlajic transmitted the information by phone and in physical meetings with a senior BIA official, and secretly filmed and recorded the movements of the Kosovo Police and Western diplomatic staff in the Serb-majority north of Kosovo.

The indictment also said Vlajic collected information about Kosovo Serbs who allegedly collaborate with Kosovo security organisations and disclosed the identity of a Kosovo Intelligence Agency, KIA, official who he had learned was an active member of the Kosovo Police.

Maid Konjhodzic, head of the Office of Political Affairs and Communications Political Affairs at the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, told BIRN after the verdict that “the OSCE Mission in Kosovo had no involvement in the actions examined by the court. This case concerns an individual and their singular actions. This has no bearing on the Mission’s mandate or operations.”

Konjhodzic added that “the Mission will not comment on individual personnel matters”.