18/06/2003 (Agence Europe) - After an inquiry carried out by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) in collaboration with the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) in New York and the judicial authorities in Germany and Gibraltar, a former official of the UN in Kosovo was convicted by the court in Bochum of having stolen funds ($4.3 million or EUR 3.9 million) due to the Kosovo Electricity Company (KEK), an OLAF press release states. The press release specifies that the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) had referred a case of suspected fraud to OLAF end April 2002. OLAF had therefore opened an external investigation, which established that the funds in question had been remitted to a bank in Gibraltar. A further attempt to send the funds from Gibraltar to Belize was thwarted, the press release states, pointing out that OLAF, in August 2002, "was able to secure the return to the Kosovo budget of $US 3.2 million". In December 2002, the former official (J.T., 37 years of age) presented himself to judicial authorities in Germany and was arrested.