7 minutes agoSerbian media: InTERPOL wanted Laban elects Constitutional Court Judge in Pristina
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Kosovo Assembly deputies on Friday voted for Radomir Laban to be appointed Constitutional Court judge, for which the Constitutional Court in Kralev has confirmed it is on the INTERPOL list of fugitives, because Serbia wants it to hold a prison sentence. As Insader reports, the newly elected Judge of the Court [...]
As reported insider, the newly elected Kosovo Constitutional Court judge from the Serbian community, Radomir Laban, according to the Constitutional Court in Kraleva, which is responsible for implementing the commitments, has been convicted of taking bribes and sentenced to prison for six years, but which he has been accounted for in detention for a period of two years and four months.
“due to the failure to respond to convicted Radomir Laban in calling to keep his prison sentence at Nis's Prison, according to the Police Department's announcement in Kraleva that the same is located on Kosovo's territory, the Constitutional Court in Kraleva has been issued. 06,02,2013 for announcing the central arrest. Following the collection of necessary documentation, this court has initiated procedures for issuing an international warrant, so with document date 03.02. 2014 The ministry cited informed the court that INTERPOL in Belgrade has given the go-ahead for issuing an international warrant for Radomir Laban”, the Constitutional Court's response to Kralev is reported to be submitted.
As the Serbian portal reports, the Court says in 13,11,2017 it was addressed. EULEX in Pristina with a request for Radomir Laban to be brought to the administrative border and handed over to Serbia's police.
In addition, the Court through the Ministry of Justice has sent prayers to the Office of the EU Representative in Pristina, with a request to take measures within its jurisdiction for Radomir Laban to be arrested so as to be sent to prison sentences.
Laban is one of 21 convicted in the judicial process against the so-called customs mafia, which was held at the Special Court for Organised Crime in Belgrade.
The arrests in connection with this indictment began in 2006, and the Special Court for Organised Crime issued a plea in 2011 that the group was convicted according to the indictment of benefiting multimillion by illegal smuggling of goods, including cigarettes, alcohol, household equipment, and textile goods.
Radomir Laban was tried as an intelligence department employee at the Customs Directorate, and in addition to the prison sentence, there has been a ban on performing all operations and duties at all organs and all jobs at Serbia's Customs Directorate for a period of ten years.
Although this ban is still in effect, as well as the request to go to prison sentence, he in Pristina elected the highest court judge.
Therefore, the Parliament's decision to elect Radomir Laban to the Constitutional Court has also had reactions from political organisations and parties in Kosovo.
The Council for Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms has asked President Hashim Thaci not to decree Kosovo Constitutional Court Judge Radomir Laban, voted days ago by the Assembly of Kosovo without completing verification.
Even the Vetevendosje Movement has sent letter to the country's president's office, through which it has asked him not to appoint him as judge at the Constitutional Court, Radomir Laban, after the same one had been sentenced as part of a criminal group.
