Buying cigarettes with counterfeit metal coins, Mitrovica Prosecution pressed charges

The case occurred in Mitrovica, and the same coins had been used to buy cigarettes, the news.net writes.

The Red Crimes Department has filed an indictment at the Constitutional Court in Mitrovica against indictees L.H., in the direction of criminal acts “Forging money”, from Article 296 paragraphs 2, of the Republic of Kosovo Penal Code”, says the report.

The prosecution announces the opinion of the defendant L.H., on March 20, 2019, in Mitrovica, has placed metal coins in circulation, which, although he knew they were faked, had been used in a stern and a market to buy cigarettes. The defendants, after the police ban, have also been confiscated by several metal coins, which after the examination have resulted in counterfeiting.

The State Prosecutor has proposed to the Constitutional Court in Mitrovica that the defendant plead guilty to criminal acts and condemn them by law.