Severe clash between lawyer Berisha and prosecutor Drita Hajdari at session “Proto”

This statement, lawyer Berisha has awarded at Monday's session, in the case of “Proto”, in which former Kosovo Democratic Party President Adem Grabovci, former Minister of Innovation and Intervention Besim Beqaj, former deputet The PDK, Zenun Pajaziti, and eight other accused, reports the “Justice Vow”.

These guys have been willing to make deals even with 1 euros to tell him we're guilty of doing this job, and I'm offered by myself that this prosecutor who's sitting across the street told us to close up, I'm being punished, with a parole sentence, and we're going to close it, and we're going to polygraph who's lying to me or you're going to have to shut down, and I've declared lawyer Berisha.

However, his statement has opposed prosecutor Drita Hajdari.

It's not true. This guy's lying. He can't keep watch over the negative emotions he's got on me, if I've mentioned the plea agreement, I haven't invented the deal. It's legal, but he's mistaking it in front of the public.”, prosecutor Hajdari has declared.

After the chairman of the court, Judge Shashivar Hoti has warned lawyer Berisha, he has continued with the giving of the final word.

According to him, the prosecution had failed to prove that his defence actions were illegal and because of his lack of any action on his part, he has demanded that a loose judgment be declared against Beqaj.

He has said the only thing the prosecution had proved in this trial was that they were not all equal under the law.

“Whoever heard all the wiretapping notes that the prosecution did not address all of them in accordance with the law, the pronto notion was pronounced by someone else, even as you have personally seen when the prosecutor asked questions about whether you met with him (referring to the prime minister), did not read it, cut it off, followed in this case was selective and received a number of public pressure from wiretaps that came out of the media<1>, the lawyer Berisha said.

He said they did not contest the legality of the wiretapping, but according to him, the prosecution explained from these conversations he called incriminating, because it was confirmed that the accused had not even made the slightest attempt to cancel board directors' competitions at public companies “Tranikos” and “Infracos”, and that the witnesses proposed by the defence had testified that the chief executive position is chosen by someone else.

The procedure changed the device even though in its evidence it had handed in the correct address, the boards did not select a ministry, boards at the public company were announced, canceled, re-declared and procedure with the Kosovo Government's decision”, the lawyer Berisha said.

He said they do not know who the applicants were, were all members of PTK, because according to him, one member of the political party could not be an official person and whether these persons had had the status of the official person.

According to him, the prosecution had to state in which article these people had been banned from discussing a case about any selection or competition.

According to him, the criminal act they are accused of was described as being one to cover the absolute prefix because the prosecution had introduced people as official persons who had not even had the position of the official person.

His final word has also been given by accused Besim Beqaj, who has said prosecutor Hajdari during the hearings had stated that the accused had talked about things that had not been competent and had shown that these things were private conversations, while on the other hand had said that these actions had satisfied the law.

You were mishandled, I said you acted from the shadow, from the backstage”, prosecutor Hajdari reacted.

He has said the prosecutor's statement that by these actions, “contained the law”, can also be found in the chipbal, while adding that legal security should be found in the Republic of Kosovo and that this security should be put on evidence. Facts and documents, not background.

The final word is continuing with the other accused.

Otherwise, in May of this year, the Court of Appeals has rejected the complaints of defence attorneys, thus ending the indictment filed by the Special Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo (PSRK).

According to the Appeals Court's assessment, in the controversial ruling, the first-instance court has provided sufficient for this phase of the criminal procedure, reason regarding well-based suspicion, about controversial evidence, and that it has correctly proven that sufficient legal-procedure evidence exists to continue. According to Appeals, whether their guilt will be proven, it remains to be considered during the upcoming phase of the criminal procedure and key investigation of the case, which at this stage of the criminal procedure cannot be assumed by the tribunal or by the parties.

The Constitutional Court in Pristina, on April 3, 2019, had confirmed the indictment against Adem Grabovci, Besim Beqaj, Zenun Pajazit and others in the well-known “Proto”, after having rejected the defence requirement for dropping the indictment and rejecting evidence.

Otherwise, at the session, which was held on February 4th 2019, the defense of accused Adem Grabovci, Besim Beqaj, Zenun Pajaziti and others in the case known as “Proto” had rejected the indictment.

However, at the initial session held on November 15, 2018, the accused had been declared innocent.

Among the 11 accused are former PDK parliamentary group chief Adem Grabovci, former minister of innovation and entrepreneurship Besim Beqaj, the current deputy The PDK, Zenun Pajaziti, former head of the Prizren municipality's Parliament, Nijazi Kryeziu, former head of the Union for Supply to the Ministry of Health, Arbenita Pajaziti, former Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ilham Gashi, former Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Peace, Fatmir Shudaj, former political adviser to the MPB, Sedat Gashi, Ismet Neziraj, Daj and Axajazi.

They are accused of committing criminal acts “The violation of equal status of citizens and residents of the Republic of Kosovo in co-ordination”, from Article 193 paragraph 4 concerning KPRK's paragraph 1, concerning Article 31 of the KPRK, of which some of the works have remained attempted.

According to the indictment, the defendants have misused their official positions by co-operating among themselves in granting privileges and illegal priorities to those who have competed in important positions, such as directors for central public companies, chief executive of the Agency for the Internal Affairs, head of the Agency for Medical Products and Co-ordinator of the Civil Record Centre in the Cline, denying and restricting the freedoms and rights of other candidates, guaranteed by law. The criminal issue of employment and division of office, based on party affiliation and personal reports, has been addressed for a long time, the problem of Kosovo's citizens, law enforcement agencies, as well as the media and civil society.

This case was published by public media, revealing employment actions and methods within tight interest groups, under which the prosecution's investigation has been launched, which resulted in the establishment of the indictment.

This work, which these officials and former officials are accused of, according to Article 193, paragraph 4 of the Republic of Kosovo Criminal Code, is punishable from 6 months to 5 years in prison. The main protagonist of what has been described as “Aphera Proto” has been the former deput of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Adem Grabovci.

In 2011, talk had first been published in the media by several EULEX wiretaps, where Grabovci was heard conversing among other things with current President Hashim Thaci, Chief Prime Minister Kadri Veselini and other policy persons, primarily PDK.

Grabovci was then being investigated by EULEX for corrupt acts in the quality of Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunication, but these investigations against him were closed in lack of evidence.

In these wiretapping involving a period of two months, November - December 2011, Grabovci and his co-talkers, including current minister Besim Beqaj, deputy The PDK, Zenun Pajaziti and several other people are heard negotiating employment of persons close to the PDK in various institutions as board members, directors of companies and independent agencies.