Sami Lushtaku's escape trial begins in September

Lushtaku and 23 others are expected to face charges by EULEX prosecutor for the escape of Sami Lushtaku, Sahit Jashar and Ismet Hoxha from Pristina hospital in 2014.

News of the hearing's appointment to this case has revealed the sources of “Arbre.info” within the Pristina Foundation Court.

For Sami Lushtaku's case we have not yet decided to set the initial review session, but expected approximately mid-September”, a source within the court has said.

According to the same source, the delay in determining hearings to this case has come due to the court's tight agenda, which has had certain very sensitive subjects.

In November 2016, the EULEX prosecutor under Kosovo's Special Prosecution filed charges against Skyeraj leader Sami Lushtaku and 23 other people.

The incident, which includes a series of senior Justice Ministry officials, describes in detail how Lushtaku escaped from prison by showing his car and the person who carried him from the hospital to an apartment.

The same describes the way after Lushtaku's escape, the director of Pristina's Prison was advanced to the head of the correctional service.

The Acropolis describes the involvement of other Justice Ministry officials who refused to transfer Lushtak to the Mitrovica prison, as well as his son, Mergim Lushtaku.

KKUK doctors are also charged with giving false diagnosiss of Lushtak, and also part of the indictment are co-workers of Lushtak who, according to the indictment, offered witnesses before and residences in exchange for statements.

Twenty-four defendants are charged with a number of works dealing with the treatment of prisoners on the part of the Kosovo Correcting Service, the escape of prisoners from the Pristina Hospital in May 2014, the medical care given to some prisoners, and the threat of witnesses during the trial of the case ♫Denica.

Investigations according to the prosecutor of this case had been conducted in order to prosecute several defendants, who, while imprisoned, had the possibility of organising a group devoted to pressure key witnesses' judicial statements against key defendants in the case of APUDrenica~ Several senior Kosovo Correcting Service officials, including Emrush Thaci, Shemsi Hajrizin, have been suspended for this case.

Otherwise, on May 20, 2014, the three top superiors of the former Kosovo Liberation Army, charged in the case of the so-called “Drenica Group”, Sami Lushtaku, Ismet Haxha and Sahit Jashar, had escaped from the University Clinical Centre in Pristina, where they were being treated for several months.

Their escape had come on the day the EULEX Court decided to transfer them to a detention centre in northern Mitrovica.

The three fugitives -- Lushtaku, Haja and Jashar -- had been staying at QKUUK for months, due to health problems in the inability of treatment from health centres in the Dubrava prison. /Arbresh.info