The specialised prosecutor used Kurti's former councillor's statement to arrest former KLA leaders

The Specialised Prosecutor's Office has used as a claim in the arrest warrant against Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veseli, Jakup Krasniqi and Rexhep Selimi's statement by Shkelzen Gashi, former adviser to former Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti.

In the claim of the Prosecutor's Office specialised in the arrest warrant, political adviser Shkelzen Gashi said that individuals within the U. The CK has committed crimes and as a result of the KLA's 1998-99 consecutive languageist staff, he was considered Serbia's collaborator and supporter by Jakup Krasniqi and key members of the Veterans Association, subjecting him to death and his numerous criticism was dismissed.

In addition, the document of the Specialised Prosecutor's Office says Gashi's example reflects a climate of impunity and intimidation, which suspects have actively facilitated and encouraged.

The suspects themselves have a long record of hostility towards responsibility for crimes committed during the war or any investigation of them”, the document said.

At the conference on the progress of the issue concerning former KLA superiors, Hashim Thaci's lawyer, David Hooper, said they reject the criteria cited for the former Kosovo president.

At the first session, in the past week we filed a bail request for Mr. Thaci, we do not accept the set criteria for Mr. Thaci. Thaci, we want to apply the ways in which a constitutional release” should be realised, said lawyer Hooper.

Thaci's lawyer said and that strange editings have been made as regards the arrest warrant.

We must have complete extraction of the arguments made available by you, Mr. Judge, as regards the arrest warrant in question. In the warrant of arrest by the prosecution, there are strange editings, such editings can be justified, references to misbehavior in Mr. Thaci during the” documentation, said lawyer Hooper.

He demanded that the prosecution reconsider the editorials made.

“Procurory to re-examine the editings and to have as little worded versions of the documentation as possible and all evidence quoted at the end of the page in the prosecution's request and this documentation is put to the right moment protection and that within 3 days”, lawyer Hooper added.

On 24 April of this year, as long as former Prime Minister Albin Kurti was adviser, activist Shkelzen Gashi on one of the televisions in Kosovo had even mentioned non-Albanian civilian victims and their right to justice, as well as individual responsibility that should bear those former KLA members who committed crimes during and after the war in Kosovo.

This statement had sparked much debate in Kosovo, making former Prime Minister Albin Kurti a day later determined to relieve his political adviser.

In the indictment, Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veselini, Rexhep Selimi, Jakup Krasniqi is charged with nearly 100 illegal killings.

The crimes presented in the indictment include hundreds of identified Albanian, Serbian and Roma victims of Kosovo and political opponents.