Witness relates how drivers in Kosovo purchase license for 200 euros

Witness Ismet Ahmeti confessed to the court about his encounters with accused Muzafer Sejdiu and the amount of money he had delivered to him on his brother's order.

This witness showed that his brother, found in France, had told him to give the accused Muzafer Sediu the amount of money of 250 euros, but the reason he gave this money had not been shown.

Furthermore, the witness indicated that when he was invited to the police to issue statements on this occasion, he understood the real cause his brother had asked him to give this money now to the accused Muzafer.

I realized that giving these 200 euros involved a driver's document”, Ismet Ahmeti said.

The Witness further confessed to the type of payment he had paid to the accused Muzafer, where he had at first secured 200 euros, and then after a time when he had brought the document home, he had given it another 50 euros through his wife because he had not been home.

When the Witness was asked how he met with the accused Muzafer, he stated that his brother had given his number to this person, who had later called him on the phone where he met and had initially given him 200 euros because he had not had another 50 euros to give.

The time I met this guy to give the money, he was in the afternoon, and we met before the self-service “I then asked her for her ID and she figured it was Muzafer Sejdiu. Apparently this person was with white hair and yellow eyes. On whose behalf the document was prepared (the driver partner) for which the money was paid I have no knowledge”, Witness Ismet Ahmeti said.

The Witness was later asked whether he has knowledge of the way his brother has come out of the country and of the help he had received from the accused Muzafer Sejdiu to go abroad.

The brother went to France without letters, but how he got there I don't know. If the person named Muzafer helped go abroad, I have no knowledge of”, the witness Ismet Ahmeti said at the end.

This court examination, invited with a testimony warrant, included people named Remzi Hajdari, Bekim Mustafa, Leotrim Ukshi and Fatmir Hasani, but after the announcement made by the police station in the year, confirmed that these persons are abroad and it is impossible to ensure their presence in the trial.

After that, Special Prosecutor Habibe Salihu proposed to the court that since the high-ranking witnesses are abroad, no such witnesses are heard because the time of their return to Kosovo is not known, but to read their statements previously issued at the police.

On this proposal, although opposed by the defender of accused Jahi Jahiu, lawyer Ymer Huruglica, the court decided to approve prosecutor Habibe Salihi's request, and the trial went on to read those statements.

After reading the statements of these witnesses, prosecutor Habibe Salihi reminded the court that, according to the indictment, it has been proposed to invite police witness Avdyl Sekiraqa, who had been present during the raid on the houses of the accused. The proposal was rejected by lawyers Ymer Huruglica of Sevdali Zamenu.

In this regard, Judge Agim Ademi chairman Zyhdi Haziri of Naser Maliqi's members received a ruling where prosecutors Salihi's request was approved, to be invited to testify, and it was decided that the hearing will be postponed for January 22, 2019.

According to the prosecution's indictment, issued on April 15, 2015, represented by prosecutor Habibe Salihi, Muzafer Sejdiu and Besart Hasani have acted as a group that has organised the smuggling of migrants to Switzerland since March 2013.

The group included individuals living in Switzerland known as “Nijazi” and “Puka”, who ran immigrant smuggling activities. So these two people had been active in this group, one regulating counterfeit documents used by immigrants and the other by producing false documents to be used by smuggled immigrants. Both have done so with a view to financial gain.

On the other hand, Muzafer Sejdiu and Jahi Jahiu from April 2013 until March 2014 have organized, supervised and directed the activities of an organised criminal group, which included them themselves, a Macedonian national named “Plavine” and other unknown persons, the Kalxo report. The group, organised in exchange for financial payment, has organised smuggling migrants from Kosovo through Serbia to Hungary and from Kosovo through Macedonia to Greece.