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Emily O’Reilly. Photo: European Ombudsman.

European parliament-appointed ombudsman Emily O’Reilly, who held an inquiry into the way the graft allegations which caused a scandal last month were handled by EULEX, said that neither the rule-of-law mission in Kosovo nor the EU’s European External Action Service had a copy of former prosecutor Maria Bamieh’s report about her graft suspicions, which was filed in 2012.

“It is unclear what became of it,” O’Reilly said in her own report, which was published on Thursday.

Bamieh alleged that she became suspicious about possible corruption inside EULEX after reading records of phone surveillance in cases that she was investigating, but said that the EU mission initially failed to investigate the allegations she made in the internal report in 2012.

O’Reilly said that it was worrying that this vital document appeared to have disappeared.

“The fact that the 2012 report about irregularities in EULEX can no longer be located is evidently an issue of great concern in itself,” she said.

However she said that she was not able to assess whether Bamieh’s claims were credible or not.

In October, Bamieh accused her former EULEX colleague, Italian judge Francesco Florit, of taking a 300,000 euro bribe to release a Kosovo man accused of murder.

Florit denied strongly the allegation.

Bamieh, who has been suspended, has also accused EULEX of targeting her for being a whistleblower.

The EU’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, appointed an external legal expert last month to investigate the claims.

Jean Paul Jacqué, a French law professor, will present his preliminary findings to the European parliament in January 2015.

Senior MEPs warned last month that the graft claims could threaten the EU’s reputation in Kosovo.

“If the allegations were to be confirmed, it would be a disastrous situation. The credibility of the EULEX mission and of the EU in Kosovo is at stake,” MEPs Elmar Brok and Ulrike Lunacek said in a letter to Mogherini.

EULEX deals with cases of organised crime, corruption and war crimes which are considered too important or sensitive to be handled by the Kosovo judiciary.