The first witness against Salih Mustafa in The Hague said that he did not remember the day when he said that he was taken by some people who were introduced to him as members of the KLA, but stated that he was released on the 18th, which according to him was the day when had launched offensives in Zllashë.

The third part of today’s session where the trial was held in the case of former member of the Kosovo Liberation Army, Salih Mustafa, was conducted with questions by Mustafa’s lawyer.

The witness answered the defense’s questions about the day he claims to have been taken by some people, and about his stay in Zllashë.

“He tied that date because on the 18th the offensive fell, I know about that. There was an offensive in Zllashë, in Zllashë on the 18th and they released us, and they released us because of the offensive. They released us, they told us to leave because the offensive fell… I did not see the offensive, but they told us when we went out, run away because the offensive fell and we do not know where to go “, said the witness.

Mustafa’s lawyer, Julias Von Bone, asked the witness if he had seen the offensive and how long it had taken him to reach his place of residence.

“They loved me for somewhere around 5-6 hours… I forgot, it seems to me that it was at 11:00 (when they released us)”, said the witness.

As for the moment of detention, the witness said that the persons were introduced to him as military police and stressed that they told him to go with them to Zllashë as they have something to talk about.

The witness said that he had his head in the bag from the moment they put him in the car.

Lawyer Von Bone: How long did the trip take?

Witness: In other words, they do not have more than 20 minutes.

Lawyer Von Bone: Who did this?

Witness: That person in the red hat

Lawyer Von Bone: This was not the one driving the car, this person in the red hat

Witness: No, the car has no other arm, the one with the red hat was seated there together

Lawyer Von Bone: Can you describe that man (in red hats)

Witness: Tybe I do not know how to prescribe and I had the bag on top

Lawyer Von Bone: How do you know he wore a red hat then?

Witness: I know when the car came, I got in the car, I had it for a minute or two, he had a hat with a uniform, it was him, and the driver was in a uniform, I do not know more.

Lawyer: As little as you saw it, can you describe it, can you describe it?

Witness: No.

Lawyer Von Bone: It’s raining, has it rained any day?

Witness: Tybe I do not know, I have never seen, I do not know I do not remember.

Lawyer Von Bone: How did you understand the days that passed, how did you distinguish one day from another.

Witness: I have no day where I am, neither what day it is nor what time it is, until I went out that day on the 18th I have no day anything.

The third part of today’s session, the accused Salih Mustafa followed via video link, something was allowed by the trial panel,

Mustafa himself at the beginning of the session today had asked for the floor where he had stated that recently he is facing stress, but as he began to count the factors for his condition, the session continued closed.

The trial panel announced today that Mustafa will have the right to follow the hearings via video link, but in certain cases he may be invited by the trial panel to be present in the courtroom.

This is the first trial that has started in the Kosovo Specialized Chambers in The Hague. Salih Mustafa is the first detainee from the Special Forces. The indictment against Mustafa was confirmed on June 12, 2020, while he was arrested on September 24 last year, on charges of war crimes and against humanity.

In his statement before the court, Salih Mustafa pleaded not guilty.

The court hearing scheduled for Thursday has been postponed, in the case where the former Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development (MAFRD), Nenad Rikalo, the Secretary General of this ministry, Kapllan Halimi and six other officials, Shefki Zeqiri, Ekrem Gjoka, Shkelzen Morina, Leon Thaçi, Lindar Krasniqi and Albana Zeqiri are being accused of corruption.

The presiding judge, Mentor Bajraktari, has announced that due to health reasons, the member of the trial panel, Albina Shabani-Rama, is missing, reports “Oath for Justice”.

“We have tried to change the body, but we did not find it reasonable and we had obstacles to find other members. “So today we will not have the conditions to hold the main trial session”, said Bajraktari.

Witnesses Shqipe Dema and Bekim Hoxha did not present during this hearing either, for whom Judge Bajraktari said that they had been informed in advance about the non-holding of the hearing.

Albana Zeqiri’s defense counsel, lawyer Kushtrim Bytyqi, was also not present, who according to Judge Bajraktari had informed the court that he would be absent.

In these circumstances, the session scheduled for May 7 has been canceled, while the next sessions are expected to be held on June 7 and 10, starting at 9:30.

According to the indictment prepared by the Special Prosecution of the Republic of Kosovo (SPRK), on December 26, 2019, the defendants Nenad Rikalo, Kapllan Halimi, Shefki Zeqiri and Ekrem Gjoka, are accused of collaborating during 2018, in order to enable them to benefit illegal companies such as: consortium “Novus” LLC, to win the grant “Building a modern market for agricultural products” in Pristina, consortium “Dhemetra” LLC to win the grant “Building a factory for the production of manure “(Not being at all in the list of projects which are covered by funding through grants), the consortium” DOO Zubin Potok “for winning the grant” Project for construction of investments in the facility for storage and preservation of fruits “, as well as the consortium NTP Arena Engineering ”in Peja, for obtaining the grant“ Production and processing of meat ”in Peja, have intentionally acted in violation of Law 04 / L-090 on amending and supplementing Law 03 / L-098 on Agriculture Rural Development article 5.1, article 8, article 13 paragraph 1.2, article 4, article 14.2 Law 03 / L098 on Agriculture and Rural Development, article 8 and 9, regulation (QRK) no. 37/2013, article 7.1, paragraph 1.1, Guide and Manual for drafting the concept of documents by the Office of the Prime Minister.

It is said that they did this so that the defendant Nenad Rikalo, in the capacity of Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development, exceeded his competencies, drafted a “Special Program”, without a special budget allocated for this project, has decided on the criteria, has determined the regions for financing, the amount of the grant, bypassing the regular procedures of drafting the special program, which was the competence of the Department of Rural Development Policies in MAFRD, overlapping between the measures with regular program, on March 26, 2018, illegally issued a decision no. ref. KM 91/18 for drafting new policies for further development of rural infrastructure and increasing competition in less developed rural areas, in which case the program is submitted to them completed, while the commission was formed only formally.

Further, it is stated that the defendant Kapllan Halimi, in the capacity of the general secretary in this ministry, has exceeded his competencies so that he has illegally issued the decision with ref.no. OPS 266/18, in order to provide illegal benefits to the above-mentioned companies, appoints a working group consisting of 11 members for the preparation of investments in rural infrastructure, being aware that this group is not competent and has no knowledge of the compilation. of this program, while he was aware that this group was only formal, knowing that the draft was submitted by Minister Rikalo himself.

According to the indictment, the defendant Shefki Zeqiri, in the capacity of an official person in this ministry, during 2018, acting illegally, has drafted and approved the Administrative Instruction 09/2018 for the implementation of the special program “Rural Areas Less developed ”, although he knew that this program was drafted in violation of Law 04 / L-090 on amending and supplementing Law 03 / L-098 on Agriculture and Rural Development and Regulation (NRC) no. 37/2013, bypassing the regular procedures of drafting the special program that is the competence of the Rural Development Policy Department in MAFRD.

While, according to the accusation, the defendant Ekrem Gjoka, in the capacity of an official person, acting Chief of the ADA, illegally took the decision ref.no. ZHB-07/4/54/2018 for the formation of the working group, which group will do administrative control, evaluation, approval and contracting of rural infrastructure projects, composed of: Lindar Krasniqi, Shkelzen Morina, Albana Zeqiri and Leon Thaçi, ignoring the fact that this team should be formed by the director, monitored by the director and this group should report to the Director of the Directorate for Project Approval and Rural Development, so the defendant Gjoka intentionally acted in such a way that enabled the aforementioned companies to benefit illegally because he himself was part of the group when the minister had submitted the ready draft to them, acting in this way they caused damage to the budget of the Republic of Kosovo in the amount of 4,000,000 euros.

According to the indictment, the Accused Shkëlzen Morina, Leon Thaçi, Lindar Krasniqi and Albana Zeqiri, on 14 August 2018, interacting in the capacity of officials at the MAFRD, acting illegally, in order to enable them to benefit in illegally, the consortium “Novus” sh.pk for winning the grant “Construction of a modern market for agricultural products” in Prishtina were declared the winners of the consortium “Dhemetra” sh.pk for winning the grant “Construction of a factory for production of organic fertilizer ”in Gjilan, have announced the winner the consortium“ DOO Zubin Potok ”, for winning the grant“ Project for construction of investments in the facility for storage and preservation of fruits ”, have announced the winner the consortium NTP“ Arena Engineering ”, for winning grant “Production and processing of meat”, in Peja, who have not met the legal requirements set by Administrative Instruction 09/2018 for the implementation of the special program Rural areas less z developed ”.

In the Basic Court in Prishtina, today is expected to continue the trial in the case where Enver Sekiraqa is accused of inciting the murder of Triumf Riza.

In the last session held on March 29 this year, the witness Visar Riza, brother of the late Triumf Riza, was heard, reports “Oath for Justice”.

Otherwise, the Basic Court in Prishtina, for the second time on September 16, 2019, had found Enver Sekiraqa guilty of inciting the murder of former police officer Triumf Riza and had sentenced him to 30 years.

However, the Court of Appeals on March 6, 2020, had decided to approve Sekiraqa’s appeal by returning the case for a second time for retrial, as according to the Appeal the first instance verdict was obtained in violation of the provisions of criminal procedure.

According to the Appeal, the court of first instance held the adjourned trial with a changed trial panel and did not start again. This court also found that the enacting clause of the appealed judgment was vague, incomprehensible and contradictory, while in the reasoning according to the Appeal were not given sufficient and clear reasons regarding the decisive facts, as well as the legality of the evidence provided by PTK- yes.

Therefore, this court has instructed the court of first instance to state exactly what were the incriminating actions that the accused Sekiraqa had committed or not in this criminal case, as well as to re-evaluate the legality of the control of the premises “Bar Sekiraqa”, in compliance with the Code of Criminal Procedure in order to assess whether these pieces of evidence collected during the search of the premises were admissible.

Also, this court had instructed that in the retrial the witnesses Abedin Canolli be heard regarding the role of Sekiraqa in his group, about the people who obeyed the orders of Sekiraqa and how he charged the duties Canolli and Xhafer Bislimi.

Sekiraqa for the same case was convicted on May 17, 2016, for two criminal offenses for “incitement to commit aggravated murder” and for the offense “coercion” with a single sentence of 37 years in prison, and was released for the criminal offense “rape” .

However, the Court of Appeals, on October 24, 2019, held a hearing regarding the imposition of a security measure on Enver Sekiraqa, after the same court on October 19, in the evening, released him from detention and against him had imposed the measure of house arrest.

Three appellate judges, two from EULEX, Elka Ermenkova and Anna Adamska-Gallant, and local judge Mejreme Memaj, voted to change the security measure against him.

But, this court, after only two days, had decided to return Enver Sekiraqe to detention, and for this reason, a photo was published on the social network, by friends who had visited him after his release from detention.

With this, the court of second instance, had assessed that Enver Sekiraqa has violated the measure of house arrest, which was assigned to him.

Otherwise, in the session of the Court of Appeals, which was held on September 6 last year, where the appellate claims of the parties were examined, Enver Sekiraqa, had asked to be released from detention and to defend himself at large.

As a guarantee for his release, Sekiraqa had offered his property, including a house, a bar and a sum of money, which he said he would raise with the help of his family.

The International Prosecutor of the Appellate Prosecution, Anca Stan, in the September 6 session of the Appellate Panel, had stated that apart from the allegations in the appeal there was nothing to add, but the same had said that the request of the defense to exclude some of the evidence crucial are wrong.

In April 2014, the Special Prosecution of the Republic of Kosovo had filed an indictment against Enver Sekiraqa for three criminal offenses, incitement to murder Triumf Riza, “coercion” and “rape”, where for the latter, the court of first instance had pleaded not guilty.

The prosecution claims that the incident that took place in “Swiss Casino” between Sekiraqa and Riza was one of the motives that led to the murder of Triumf Riza.

The incident at Swiss Casino took place in December 2006, and involved Enver Sekiraqa and some of his companions on one side, and the late Triumf Riza and Arben Selmani on the other. Arben Selmani was seriously injured in this incident.

Triumf Riza was killed on August 30, 2007, a murder for which Arben Berisha was sentenced to 35 years in prison, while Enver Sekiraqa to 37 years.

AAK President Ramush Haradinaj considers useless and unfair the action of AAK MP Albena Reshitaj to participate in the extraordinary session for the election of the President of Kosovo.

Haradinaj stressed that no vote was requested as a political entity for the election of the President, while he said that he was informed by Reshitaj himself that he would participate in this session.

“We were not asked to vote as a political entity.

I have been informed that she wants me to attend the hearing, I have expressed my position that I am against.

It was her individual action.

I have not clearly discussed this part.

I consider unfair and useless the individual action of Mrs. Reshitaj.

It is a decision outside those we talked about in the presidency “, said Haradinaj on RTV Dukagjini.

Otherwise, Reshitaj is the only one who, despite the statement of the party leader, Ramush Haradinaj has decided to go to the session for the election of the President of Kosovo.

Reshitaj is one of the last MPs to arrive in the Assembly today. / Telegraphy /

The Basic Court of Prishtina has set April 6 as the date for holding the initial hearing in the case of Liburn Ali and others who are being accused of abuse of office.

The spokesperson of the Court of Prishtina, Milinda Gashi confirmed for Express that the judge of the case, Alban Ajvazi, has set April 6 as the date of holding the initial hearing against the Minister of Environment, Spatial Planning and Infrastructure Liburn Aliu.

“The hearing is scheduled for April 6 at 10:00. “This was done with the decision of the judge of the case, Alban Ajvazi”, she said.

The Minister of Environment, Spatial Planning and Infrastructure, Liburn Aliu and several other officials are accused of the criminal offense of abuse of office during the time he was director of the Directorate of Urbanism in the Municipality of Prishtina.

Meanwhile, the allegations against him were denied by Minister Aliu himself. He said he was not aware that there was an indictment against him.

The Basic Prosecution in Prishtina had reacted to this statement of Ali.

The Prosecution has announced that on April 23, 2018 has received criminal charges against persons with initials: LA, AO, ZR, NK, BU, MB, at that time officials of the municipality of Pristina, in terms of the criminal offense “Abuse of official position or authority ”.

“The State Prosecutor, on 17.04.2019, has taken a decision to start the investigation, in which case he has conducted all investigations related to this case, has heard all the defendants separately, (on 05.08.2019 the defendant LA was heard) and based on the evidence and testimonies provided on 24.07.2020, filed an indictment for the criminal offense ‘Abuse of official position or authority’, under Article 422 of the CCRK. The same indictment has been processed in the competent court for further proceedings “, it is said in the communiqué.

The prosecution has denied Minister Aliu’s allegations that he was not provided with the indictment against him.

“The allegations that the defendant LA was not provided with an Indictment by the Prosecution, do not stand, because if we refer to the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Kosovo, the Indictment is submitted to the competent court in as many copies as there are defendants and their defense counsel and an additional copy for the court “, the Prosecution emphasizes.

“Also, the complete case of the investigation is sent to the court by the state prosecutor, from article 242, paragraph 1 of the CPC. At the moment when the indictment is sent to the court, it is obliged to provide the parties in the procedure with the indictment. During the initial hearing, the single trial judge or the presiding judge shall provide a copy of the indictment to the defendant or defendants, if they have not previously received these copies of the indictment, Article 245, paragraph 2 of the CPC, ie. that the competent Court provides the parties with the Indictment ”, it is stated in the notification.

Minister of Environment, Spatial Planning and Infrastructure, Liburn Aliu who is the new Minister elected in the Government Kurti 2

The next session against the former president, Hashim Thaçi and others, will be held on March 24 in The Hague, reports Zeri.info.

This was announced through the Kosovo Specialized Chambers in The Hague.

The conference on the progress of the case of Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi, will be held from 11 am, while the date corresponds to the 22nd anniversary of the launch of NATO bombing against Serbia.

We recall that the last hearing on the case of Thaçi and others was held on February 16./Zeri