Krasniqi and his group of around 100 militants[5][6] controlled the village of Kondovo twice, first in July and December 2004 and later between February and August 2005,[6][7] that accompanied the governmental vote of the time.[8] Through the media, Krasniqi threatened to shell Skopje and his men kidnapped and beat four police officers. After this, the ANA withdrew into Kosovo.[9] In July 2005, President Branko Crvenkovski held a session of the National Security Council to discuss the situation. On 14 July, the council gave the green light for the police to arrest Krasniqi. A month later, Krasniqi voluntarily showed up in front of a judge. The judge decided that the action guaranteed he would be available for the courts during the judicial process. As a result, the arrest warrant was withdrawn and he was not detained.[10]
Krasniqi's group was accused by the Macedonian government and media of being involved in the attack on the police station in the village of Vratnica on 12 July 2005.[11][12] Three shells were fired from a missile launcher at the station,[13]mortars, and automatic firearms.[14][15] These attacks resulted in the area being declared off-limits by the Macedonian police.[16]
Starting in September 2004, arrest warrants were issued against him for illegal possession of weapons, kidnapping and theft. He was later arrested and sent to court.[3][17] In February 2007 Agim Krasniqi and his group pleaded not guilty on charges of acts of terror.[8][7] In 2008, Krasniqi was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Macedonia due to a series of crimes, including election irregularities, possession of weapons, and criminal association. Krasniqi was allowed to spend the weekends out of prison. In September 2017, he was welcomed by the villagers in Kondovo.[18] After almost 13 years spent behind bars, Krasniqi escaped in 2020 after a free weekend from the Štip prison where he was serving his sentence, two months before the parliamentary elections. After being a fugitive for four years, Krasniqi was arrested in Kosovo in April 2024.[19] Krasniqi was extradited to North Macedonia in July and returned to the Štip prison.[20]
^"Macedonia - defense: Buckovski: "Let tragedy be the beginning of the end of the war"". Relief.web. August 10, 2001. Retrieved 26 June 2022. "ANA" CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR KILLING OF TEN MACEDONIAN SOLDIERS Skopje, August 10 - A new armed group of ethnic Albanians on Thursday claimed responsibility for the killing of ten Macedonian army reservists in a highway ambush a day earlier. The "Albanian National Army" (AKSH) e-mailed a statement to several media in the region, on Albanian-language, saying a combined unit of its fighters and of the so-called National Liberation Army (NLA) carried the attack out "in revenge" for the killing of five NLA members by Macedonian security forces.
^ abJana Arsovska (2015). Decoding Albanian Organized Crime: Culture, Politics, and Globalization. University of California Press. p. 55. ISBN9780520958715.
^"Красниќи ќе се врати во Кондово". Time.mk. Retrieved 17 October 2022. Агим Красниќи и Лирим Какупи - Нацист не се во Кондово, ниту пак во Македонија. Тие пристигнаа во Косово. Беше прифатено нивното барање да не се гонат, во замена за нивно заминување од селото. English: Agim Krasniqi and Lirim Kakupi - Nazis are not in Kondovo, nor in Macedonia. They arrived in Kosovo. Their request not to be prosecuted was accepted, in exchange for their departure from the village.
