7 months in prison for 1 grams of marijuana, but the prosecutor's son was released for the same amount

Two months after this indictment, the Court of Appeals has reviewed defence complaints in proportion to the sentence pronounced by the Gjilan Foundation Court against the accused for possession of this narcotics substance.

According to the indictment in February of this year in the municipality of Gjilan near primary school “Ibrahim Uruqi”, during a police check, during physical examination of the accused Eltian Uruki in his right-hand pants pocket has been found a amount of narcotics substance of marijuana, at 1.1 grams. The subject, which the accused according to the prosecution, was possessed without authorization and without permission at school.

After the accused had admitted to carrying out this criminal act, the Constitutional Court in Gjilan had convicted him and pronounced him a seven-month prison sentence, as well as a fine in many of 200 euros.

According to the court's Act of Basic Court of Gjilan, on the grounds of the court's appointment and height of sentence, the court took into account extenuating and demanding circumstances.

Withties as extenuating circumstances, the Gjilan Court has found that the accused has pleaded guilty in all phases of procedure, admitting guilt has done so without hesitation and convincingly, and that the same has expressed deep regret, had good conduct in the court, and promised that he will not commit criminal acts in the future, as well as his new age and the fact that he was not previously condemned.

As a sequence of circumstances, the Court has taken into account the social risk of such acts and the widespread phenomenon of such actions.

He had filed a complaint with the accused as well as his protector.

According to the complaint filed with the Court of Appeals the defendant's defender, lawyer Ramadan Leka had asked the Court of Appeals to amend the court's act of first degree in such a way as to ease the sentence on his defenders or to return the case to retrial.

The prosecution, the Court of Appeals, had proposed that the defense complaint be rejected as baseless.

Present at the session, the lawyer Leka once again asked the Court of Appeals' College to file his complaint in such a way that his defenders can pronounce a milder sentence.

We've come before you today to ask for a easing of the sentence under particularly extenuating circumstances. He has now changed for 360 degrees. Now he's working and he's a family keeper, and his family doesn't even know he's been convicted”, the lawyer said.

According to the accused's lawyer now no longer uses narcotics, and since he is a family keeper, the court asked him to ease his sentence.

“no longer uses that substance and is the family holder, so we ask you to ease the sentence in the condition of”, said lawyer Ramadan Leka.

The accused himself asked the court to take immediate circumstances into account and to pronounce a mild sentence on him.

The commission “Justice in Kosovo” in April of this year has broadcast an exclusive research that showed how the case closed to special prosecutor Haki Gecaj's son, who was also caught in drugs.

The investigation testified that in the file of this subject that the prosecution had closed, writes that prosecutor Haki Gecaj's son, Valdrin Gecaj, had been caught with 1.12 grams of drugs and his companion E.H. with 0.73 grams and that Valdrin Gecaj himself admitted to the prosecution on the night he was confronted by police.

As for this case of the prosecutor's son, the prosecutor had decided to close the subject and not take the case to court.