Former judge charged with bribery complaints rejected

The Supreme Court's College, in the criminal case of the accused M.P., from the village of K., the municipality of Gjilan, because of the bribery, has ruled according to complaints of the accused and his defender, has refused both complaints as groundless, while confirming the Court of Appeals' court's conviction.

With the Constitutional Court Act in Prizren on January 29, 2015, the M.P. has been acquitted of prosecution, since it had not been proven to have committed a criminal offence.

Against the court's first-instance act, the Constitutional Prosecution in Prizren had filed complaints, while the Court of Appeals of Kosovo, on December 12th 2017, has approved both the complaint and the court's act of first-instance verdict, so that the accused has convicted him of taking a bribe, and sentenced him to prison terms in a year's length.

Against the court's second-instance act, in the legal term the complaint has been exercised, the defender of the accused and the accused himself. The Supreme Court of Kosovo, at the third degree college hearing, found that complaints are groundless.

M.P. in an incriminating time period has been the judge at the Municipal Court in Gjilan and has had the quality of the official person, the same has also been divided into the work of the damaged D.N., who has been a proposor for the appointment of custody, care and education of his children.

At the end of October 2012, the injured hosted the accused before the court, introduced him, and together went to the restaurant “Mili.” The injured has offered the accused the amount of money of 2,400 Swiss francs and has asked him to assign and carry out the matter in question. The defendant has done the same, and the first session is held on the date 31,10,2012, while considering it on 7,11,2012.

The injured high-priced amount of money has been given to the accused in two parts, the first in many of the 1,200 Swiss francs on 6,11.2012, and the second part, in many of 1,200 francs, on the date 7,11.2012, after the session was held, and after the accused handed the decision to the gas pump “Feri Petrol 111x> at the opening of Gjilan.

These facts have not been contested and they are not contested either in the currently exercised complaint, but countering, according to complaints, is that the outstanding amount of money is given in the name of the loan or in the payment of bribes, is said in communiques.

The Supreme Court found that the second-instance court has rightly concluded that it has proved beyond the suspicion based on the actions of the accused to be summed up all objective elements and subjects of the criminal act taking bribes, for which it has pleaded guilty.