13 minutes agoCase “Apex” shuts down without trial, accused in freedom
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)One of the largest cases of organised crime has already been closed without judicial process. All because of an EULEX prosecutor who had filed an indictment after the legal deadline. The accused in the Apex case are already at large. The act against them has been eventually rejected by the Court of Appeals, reports Inseder. [...]
All because of an EULEX prosecutor who had filed an indictment after the legal deadline.
The accused in the Apex case are already at large. The act against them has been eventually rejected by the Court of Appeals, reports Inseder.
This second - degree court has confirmed the first - degree verdict of December 30, 2015, taken by Judge Kateien Gabriel Whittek, rejecting the indictment against 11 people charged with organised crime.
Insander has secured Apel's decision of January 25, 2018.
The decision reportedly said that the “Appeals Court after reviewing the course and assessing the complaints in the complaint found that: The Kosovo republic's special prosecutor's complaint is unsubstantiated”.
While in her reasoning it is said that the first-degree court in last month's November “ruling had rejected the Kosovo Special Prosecutor's Court as illegal and unfair and has ceased criminal procedure against indictees”.
This subject in April 2016, Appeals had turned into trial by referring to the decision of the Supreme Court of Kosovo, which had decided that the indictment in the KEK case in which Sami Lushtaku is involved will return to trial.
But the Constitutional Court in November last year responded to her by rejecting the indictment because special prosecutor Allen Cansick had been delayed 27 days later, Insander writes.
The 11 suspects in this case were Brothers Arben of Astrit Krasniqi, Armend Neziri, Muj Berisha, Gani Zeqiri, Koqaj, Arsim Mullqi, Luan Halili, Agron Hoxha, Ilir Morina and Avni Morina for organised crime, obligation, austerity and illegal possession of arms and narcotics.
The Krasniqi brothers are the owners of the fate games “Apex”.
This group's “goal was material obtaining by exploiting force and serious threats to force businesses or other individuals to shut down their casinos, remove certain lucky games vehicles, or act on unfavourable terms for them, the prosecution claims in the indictment.
Claimed criminal acts include the period from 2008 to 2013 and are related to the games of fate and the casino industry in Kosovo.
The prosecution claims that from 2008 until the time of the arrest, Arben Krasniqi and Astrit Krasniqi as owner of the Kazinov Company, Apex “Play4win” had organised, supervised, managed and directed the activities of an organised criminal group.
