Prosecutors do not seek property seizure, it is disturbing according to IKD

This report, which is supported by the US State Department of International Narcotics Bureau and Law Implementation Issues (INL) and NED, focuses on handling criminal cases in all basic courts, on the entire territory of Kosovo, including their branches during the period of 2018 and the first six months 2019.

Kosovo Institute for Justice Executive Director Ehat Miftaraj said that the courts in Mitrovica are among the best, while courts that continue to have more problems are in Pristina.

Kosovo's “Gjykat, Kosovo departments are in much better condition in relation to other departments or other areas of what it is civil administrative or serious crimes. IKD findings show that efficiency in these departments is very good in relation to other areas, where it should be emphasized that prosecution and courts in Mitrovica are among the prosecutors and courts are more efficient and approximately 100 per cent effective against the cases they are handling, while the main problems continue to be in Pristina. The findings of the report by the IKD show that again we are dealing with the problem of testing subjects, only during this period of time have identified 2,000 and 843 subjects, which have been submitted by the courts of Kosovo territory”, Miftaraj said.

Kosovo Institute for Justice researcher Gzim Hashan said that with regard to efficiency in Kosovo courts, you see a relative increase in efficiency over the past three years, as courts had managed to select 34 percent of the subjects in 2017, that number had increased by 36 percent, and in 2018 to 37.5 percent.

The main curriculum our justice system faces is the enormous burden our courts have with subjects. In this direction, the Kosovo Judiciary Council had drafted the national strategy for reducing old materials. Also a year later, he had drafted the judiciary's strategic plan for 2014-2019, which aimed at reducing the number of old subjects but in this direction, these policies drafted by the Kosovo Judicial Council had remained only paper policy that had never been implemented. As far as efficiency was concerned, we observe a relative increase in efficiency over the last 3 years after the courts had been able to select 34 percent of their subjects in 2017, and by 2018 to 37.5 percent, this is seen in a relative increase in their number of materials. These figures have come as a result of the increase in the number of judges where the country's judicial system has added 17 judges”, Hashan said.

The other researcher from Kosovo's Institute for Justice, Mirvet Thaqi, said the Kosovo Prosecutor must be more active and seek the seizure of illegal property.

“The state prosecutor's institution, there is only a small number of cases in which the seizure of property which is the product of criminal activity, and this is really a disturbing phenomenon, so it turns out that in only 53 cases the state prosecutor's institution has demanded the seizure of this wealth benefit which has been illegally benefited while not demanding seizures in another 12,000 cases, so it requires that in this respect the state prosecutor be more active and requires the seizure of this wealthary benefit in all the cases when the criminal work has been achieved to benefit the property, Thaci adds to a capital law.

The IKD during this period has monitored a total of 2,694 sessions involving 2,015 criminal substances. Among the biggest problems in this department is the phenomenon of prescribing matter.