No court gets Ramadan Muja case

It has been more than a month since the Court of Appeals decided to retrial the case against Prizren's president, Ramadan Muja and five other former municipal officials, but this case has not yet been taken by any court.

None of Kosovo's 6 basic courts have so far responded to the Prizren Constitutional Court, which since the moment the Court of Appeals makes its decision has been addressed to these courts at the request for this provision.

Foundation Court spokeswoman in Prizren Aferdita Kicaj has told “Arbre.info” that they are awaiting response from the heads of basic courts and that if there is no answer, the court will address Appeal.

“Under the law we have asked the presidents of the Courts of the Republic of Kosovo to take this course in the retrial, and we are awaiting the answer, if neither of these courts decides to take this case, then Prizren's Constitutional Court of Appeals addresses the same court as to decide which court will take this case in the retrial”, Kicaj has indicated.

Unlike early July, the Court of Appeals had handed down its ruling, bringing the case back to retrial against Prizren Mayor Ramadan Muja and five other former officials of this municipality, who are accused of misusing official office.

In March 2014, the Constitutional Court in Prizren had sentenced Ramadan Muja to two years in prison on condition that the same one does not commit any criminal acts for a period of three years, and with an alternative sentence of banning office exercises in public administration or public service for 30 months.

While, the Court of Appeals, after nearly a year and a half, had decided that the subject would turn into retrial at the first-degree court in Prizren, because it had concluded that essential violations had been committed in the content of the first degree act of prejudice.

The Court of Appeals' Act had reached the Prizren Foundation Court in September 2015.
The act of the Prizren Constitutional Court, P.N.171/13 released on March 13, 2014, had been annulled and the subject had returned to the Constitutional Court for Retrial.

In December 2015, however, the Supreme Court had overturned the final decision of the Court of Appeals to the Muja and others, ruling that this case be returned to the Court of Appeals to restore the first - degree act of prejudice.

The Supremee's decision had come after accepting the prosecution's complaint against the Court of Appeals' decision in September and the same year, that the case against Prizren's leader, Ramadan Muja, be returned to Prizren's Constitutional Court for Restitution.

The Supreme Court had decided that the appeal act would be annulled and that the subject would be returned to the Court of Appeals for review by a new court.