Ramadan Muja appears before trial

At the previous session, accused Ramadan Muja and Minr Krasniqi had given their defense, as well as reading civil matter processions cited as in subject papers.

To reading these processes, defence lawyers of the accused Ramadan Muja and Minr Krasniqi had submitted their objections.

According to information provided by the cable. The co-operation in the trial is expected to continue with questioning other indictees.

The muja and others are accused of being misusing municipal property and managed by the Kosovo Privatisation Agency.

Ramadan Muja for the four points of indictment in the first trial was sentenced to prison for two years, provided he fails to perform other criminal acts over three years. He also received a supplementary sentence, a ban on the exercise of long - term public functions.

In the same case tried by the Prizren Court, Minr Krasniqi, former director of the Public Administration, had been sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison on condition that for two years he does not commit another criminal act. And not exercise public office for 18 months.

Kadri Ukimer, former director of Geodesia, and Sadik Pasarizi, former director of Urbanism, were sentenced to 8 months in prison on condition that they do not commit another criminal act for two years.

Avni Ademiaj, former director of Geodesia and Kadastra, was sentenced to 5 months in prison on condition that for one year he does not cause other criminal acts.

The case of Ramadan Muja had gone to the Supreme Court, which had later returned him to the Court of Appeals. And then the Court of Appeals decided to turn the case into retrial.

Displacement of the Muja trial and others by the Constitutional Court in Prizren in any other court had been requested on August 8th this year by the chairman of this court, Ymer Hoxha, with the reasoning that one of the criminal acts Muja was charged with linked to the criminal impeachment of the court in Prizren.

The Court of Appeals then estimated that the Constitutional Court in Prizren is uncompetent to judge the case, so it ruled that the Department of Basic Crimes in Gjilan has territorial competence for judging Muja and others.

It should also be noted that in one of the past court hearings, the Court had banned the face of the accused.

The chairman of the court, Agim Ademi, prohibited the media from filming the faces of the accused with the reasoning that they are still innocent until the trial is declared and proven otherwise.