IKD: 23 people charged with corruption can “save” from charges unless their cases end up 2023

High Researcher of IKD, Leotrim Gashi, has said that the findings of this institute show there are 11 people charged with criminal acts of corruption whose cases will be submitted during 2022, while 12 others by 2023.

He stated that in these cases that can be described in the next two years, cases of 13 high profile people, such as Naser Osmani, Mimoza Kusari-Lila, Nenad Rassic, Besim Beqaj and Dardan Gashi, are involved.

The “Seven of them are high profile persons and their cases will be submitted by January 202118x1>, Gashi said.

According to the IKD report, the main reasons that affect the prescribing of subjects are the great number of subjects, the failure to comply with procedural terms on the part of judges, the lack of parties in the procedure does not punish them by judges when they are absent without reason, and the frequent return of cases to the retrial.

INL Director at the American Embassy in Kosovo Shawn Waddouup said the United States Embassy in Kosovo is committed to supporting Kosovo's citizens and judiciary. He has said that part of this commitment is their support of civil society.

One of our most productive partnerships is the one we have with the IKD. Civil society efforts in fighting corruption and protecting judicial independence have shown growing progress, and we see that even today. This report that IKD is publishing sheds light on an extremely important issue. Several corruption cases that are likely to reach the” prescription, he said.

Waddoups has further said that no failure of a criminal justice system is more tragic than the release of a potential crime author because of the prescription and, according to him, to avoid legal restraint and to respect the defendants' rights to a trial without unnecessary delay, courts of higher degree than basic courts must make efforts to try to judge cases in the case when allowed under law.

Regarding the findings of the IKD report, Supreme Court Judge Agim Maliqi said that among the reasons why it affects prescribing cases is the large number of subjects, which he said would soon be addressed, as the KRK is in the recruiting phase of young judges and professional collaborators. According to him, this will also affect the decline in prescription cases.

Judge Maliqi also said that judges of the Court of Appeals should be encouraged that, for the cases they deal with open sessions, not the same ones, turn into retrial.

“K JCK is on the map of the regulation for judges ' standards, where judges will be encouraged to open hearings and win points. But that's because when we have violations of the criminal law the bias changes, but when we have violations of the procedural provisions it's hard to establish itself”, the judge Maliqi has said.

Even the task leader of the Appeals Court, Africa Shala, has said that among the reasons for the procrastination of the subjects, there are large numbers of subjects, noncompliance of professional staff jobs, inadequate systemic care, the escape of defendants, and frequent change of addresses, as well as inadequate management of sessions.