ZPS during October will not present preliminary file in the case of former KLA leaders

The Specialised Prosecutor's Office (ZPS), through a pre-prosecutor to Prosecution Judge Nicolas Guillou, has indicated that in October he is unable to submit the preliminary file in the case to Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veselin, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi.

They have made it known that the preliminary file would be able to be presented on December 17th 2021, reports “Justice Trust”.

“The SPS demands that, if the pre-procedure judge has in mind setting the deadline for submitting the preliminary file on December 17, 2021, the deadline for the surrender of the 109 (c) Rule table to be set for January 28th, 2021. Or, if the deadline for preview of the preliminary date is set for another date, the ZPS requires a minimum of 30 days from that date for presenting the 109 Rule Table (c)”, it says.

Otherwise, on November 9th, in their first appearances, Hashim Thaci's Jakup Krasniqi has been declared innocent of charges placed on them.

Wessel has been declared in his presentation on November 10th, as has Selimi on November 11th.

The incident against Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veselin, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi is confirmed on October 26, 2020.

According to the prosecution, at least between March 1998 and September 1999, Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veselini, Rexhep Selimi, Jakup Krasniqi and other members of the joint criminal enterprise had the common goal of securing and exercising control over all of Kosovo through methods involving intimidation, mistreatment, violence and the unlawful elimination of those considered opponents.

“Set up these opponents included persons who were, or who were considered to have been: (a) collaborators or forces, officials or state institutions of RFJ, or who (b) otherwise did not support the purposes or methods of the KLA and later QPK, among whom persons linked to the LDK and Serbs, Roma and persons of other nationalities (joinly, non-combatorsors). This common goal included crimes of persecution, imprisonment, arrest and arbitrary or illegal arrest, other inhumane acts, cruel treatment, torture, murder and forced disappearance of persons”, the indictment said.

In addition, Azem Syla, Lahi Brahimaj, Fatmir Limaj, Sylejman Selimi, Rrustem Mustafa, Shukri Buja, Latif Gashi and Sabit Geci are also mentioned.

According to the indictment, the accused along with other KLA leaders contributed to achieving the common goal.

“As an alternative, some or all of these individuals were not members of the joint criminal enterprise, but were used by members of the joint criminal enterprise to commit crimes for the realisation of the common goal (with members of the NKP, jointly members and NKP instruments)”, says the accusation act.