In 90 percent of prosecutors do not seek the seizure of illegally acquired property

However, the group, which is suspected of fraud and fraud, is required not to end up as the other unresolved cases, but these people would be filtered out by the institutions of justice.

Nevertheless, there are scepticism based on the past, according to justice system monitors, since 2013, only 2m euros have been confiscated and seized.

And they add that 90 percent of prosecutors do not make demands for the provision or seizure of illegally acquired property.
In spite of that, Justice Minister Abelard Tahiri says the only way to weaken criminal groups is the seizure of property.
According to him, if he leaves his wealth acquired through organised crime or corruption in punitive elections, then the power of these criminal groups will not weaken.

The only form to achieve weakening criminal groups is the seizure of property. As long as you leave the fortunes earned through organised crime, corruption. In any other way not legal. We will not weaken their power that they have, whether within institutions or outside businesses, wherever they are, Tahiri says.

Greater commitment in this direction is demanding Vetevendosje Movement MP Albulen Haxhiu.

She says that the institutions of justice should be more efficient so that this criminal group does not end up as the other fronts.

Haxhiu says that and by law anti-mafia, the justice system, more legal powers for confiscation and sequencing illegal property would be granted.

“I hope this criminal group will not end up as many other criminal groups, so that the institutions of justice will cleanse these people. This cannot happen because it is not forgiven to the institutions of justice. So far we have not seen concrete actions of the prosecution towards criminal groups that are undoubtedly linked to power, with people within the executive”, she declares.

From the IKD, the organisation that monitors the justice system, say over 90 per cent of cases, prosecutors never in the indictment identify illegal property and apply for seizures.

Based on these, IKD Director Ehat Miftaraj says illegal property has been confiscated by 2013, one or 2m euros.

“Even against the obligation the State Prosecutor has on the basis of the Court of Procedure, the Kosovo Institute for Justice during monitoring not only during the corruption case. But and organised crime, money laundering, more serious criminal acts than unfortunately over 90 per cent of cases prosecutors never in the indictment identify this property and apply for the alleged seizure or seizure of illegally acquired property... Despite the fact that this has been in force since 2013 in Kosovo has been extremely little implemented, or we can say nothing at all. Based on IKD statistics that monitor the justice system from 2013, we can probably count 1 million or 2m euros that have been confiscated for all these years. Which is an extremely low sum”, Miftaraj declares.

Otherwise, for four of the five people suspected of fraud and fraud arrested early in the week, the Founding Prosecutor has appointed a month of detention.