Eight years, six months in prison for Albania's two citizens carried marijuana

The Constitutional Court in Gjakova has declared a punishment sentence against two indictees A. M. and A. M., citizens of the Republic of Albania because, in co-ordination, they have committed criminal work “Blerja, possession, distribution and unauthorized selling of narcotics, psychotrope and analogue”.

According to the court, accused A. M. He has been convicted and sentenced to prison terms for four years and six months and fine sentences of three thousand euros.

“accused A. M. He has been convicted and sentenced to prison for four years and fined sentences of three thousand euros. The accused in this sentence will be counted as past time in detention from August 21st 2019. The accused have also been charged with paying each, in addition, the expenses of the judicial wig in the amount of two hundred euros, as well as the amount of fifty euros, on behalf of compensation for crime victims in the 15-day term following the infirmity of this act. During the ongoing trial review, it has proved that defendants on 21 August 2019, without authorisation have imported narcotics of the type “Marihuana” from the Republic of Kosovo to the Republic of Kosovo in that way; defendant A. M. After crossing the “Qaffe Morine” in Gjakova, parks the Mercedes brand car in the shopping mall parking lot “ETC” in Gjakova, later with defendant A. M. with the brand car... together they continue on their way towards the commercial center “The Star body where they're stopped for search by the drug unit. Since defendant A. M. Had the vehicle parked in “ETC”, for which he had information recently that he possessed narcotics suspect substance, a drug unit, and suspects went to the car parked near “ETC-s” and during the check, in the back section (bagage), four sacks of suspected grass-shaped substance for “Marihua” have been found, where from the laboratory examination of the forensics, it has been found that the accused had twenty-nine kilograms and three hundred and seven hundred grams, narcotic substance of the Marihune”, the court report said.

The court has ordered the Police Station in Gjakova, in order that, after the full might of this act, the destruction of the narcotic substance as well as the accused A. M. The branding vehicle “Mercedes-Benz” is confiscated, so that after the power of this act, the Agency for Confiscating Property in Pristina is obliged to take it under administration and management.

The accused are continued with the detention measure until the integrity of the act. The sides have a right to complaint against this act at the Kosovo Court of Appeals.