Corruption trial against former Pristina municipality official once again fails

The delay in this session has been the absence of Haskaj indictees.

Court Speaker Judge Valbona Musliu-Selimaj said the court has no evidence that accused Haskaj and his defender, lawyer Visar Vehapi, have accepted the invitations fairly.

Otherwise, according to the prosecution, Haskaj, working as a geodine at the Directorate for Cadastre, has made the physical division of a cadastral section in 18 parts, using the authorisation of Miroslav Pepovic, even though he had died earlier. In this move Haskaj, it is claimed to have benefited over 315,000 dinars back then, who had not given money to the deceased's children, but had stopped them for themselves.

Only prosecutor Duline Hamiti and the representative of the injured Edward Gashi participated in Thursday's session. Neither did witness Mustaf Hasasni, who had announced the court not found in Kosovo, participate in the session.

Next session is scheduled on September 5, 2018, 09:00.

Otherwise, this is the third time this judicial examination is being postponed. At the May 3, 2018, session was postponed in absence of accused Haskaj, who had reasoned that his wife was in serious health. The following June 7th session of this year had also failed to be held after prosecutor Merrishe Lluqi was in training that day, while the request to postpone the hearing had also been issued by the defendant's defender, lawyer Visar Vehapi.

According to the indictment, founded on December 16, 2014, Haskaj is accused of receiving authorisation from Milovan Miroslav Popovic on July 16, 1998, to conduct the trade of one cadastral driver, with more than a hectare of land.

However, this authorisation, Haskaj, has, according to the indictment, used it even after the death of Miroslav Popovic, so that while he was working at the Directorate for Cadastra in the Pristina municipality, such as geodes has made physical division of the plots for their buyers.

Haskaj, according to the indictment, allegedly sold the land stretch to 18 parcels of various owners, according to the possessive sheets and out of these 18 parcels, 8 of them had been sold using the authorisation of the deceased, Popovic.

By selling these parcels, according to the indictment, Haskaj had benefited over 315,000 dinars back then, which he had not given to the children of the late Miroslav, but stopped for himself. / Justice Trust