Albin Kurti reasons 1366 on the Law on Confiscating Riches, which affects citizens

He has said high corruption in the country has led the government to make such a decision, and will seize the property of Kosovo citizens if it fails to reason on the basis of monthly income.

“in the narrowest sense, illegal wealth is any property that is acquired in illegal ways, but in a broader definition, illegal wealth is any wealth that does not reason. writes Mr. Kurt in his long line of reasoning.

He has further stated that the law paves the way for the creation of a non-prosecutal agency that will carry out work in this direction, Periscopi explains.

“In this direction, the new law will aim to pave the way for the establishment of a new non-prosecutal agency, which aims to be specialised in combating criminality and confiscating illegal and unwarranted property. Kurti is justified.

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Dear citizens,

Yesterday, at the government's sixth gathering, we approved an extremely important document in combating crime in the country.

For years we've emphasised and all agreed that corruption in our country is high and concentrated on senior government officials and not only that a narrow part of society has been enriched at the expense of many through tax misuse, extortion, and abuse of justice.

In the February 14th elections, we have promised to fight corruption and crime and seize illegally created property.

We started this one yesterday. The concept of the document we passed is the first step towards the new law on the seizure of illegal and unwarranted property, so I also want to inform you of its contents, beginning with the definition of illegal property.

In a narrow sense, illegal wealth is any property that has been acquired in illegal ways, but in a broader definition, illegal wealth is any wealth that is not justified. Such an example is when the wealth a person possesses does not match the level of legal monthly income and other legal actions.

In Kosovo, for more than two decades, lawlessness has largely dominated, sometimes in absence of laws and more in the absence of their implementation. Legal and not efficient justice organs have created room for increased crime and a culture of impunity where those who have had access to the state budget have misused it to benefit personally. As a result, many high officials, and others associated with them, have amassed enormous wealth by misusing their citizens ' taxes.

So far, the seizure of illegal property has been regulated through three pillars: The Republic of Kosovo Penal Codes, the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Republic of Kosovo, and the Law for Expanded Compensations for Confiscating Riches. The current legal framework envisions the existence of a conviction act as necessary elements to pave the way for the seizure of property. Such a practice is considered useless and inefficient. In the last six years alone, sequences amount to 180 million euros, while seizures amount to 3.5 million euros. And even after more than a year's passage from the law's entry into force for the Expanded Compensations for the Confiscating of Riches, there is only one identified case of its application in practice. Darken Only ONE time.

What we've seen is the reluctance of the law bodies to pursue illegal property, ill-equipped indictment, and a procrastination of judicial processes that have caused many substances to be prescripted and, therefore, to lose access to seizures.

In short, what we have so far is a penal code that isn't enough, laws that don't address and strategies that haven't worked.

Reason has heard enough. Many have complained in much. Police in prosecutors, prosecutors at judges, judges at prosecutors, and politicians who have been extortioning have, in the end, blamed on justice. So now is the time for these complaints to be removed because we are going to remove obstacles to seizure illegal property through a new law.

Before ourselves we had three options:

First, continue the status quo and lawlessness.

Second, try to improve existing legislation hoping that the justice system will improve, and

The third one, to target a new law that brings a new legal mechanism.

With this document concept we have chosen the third. Until Vetting's process in justice is realised, we have to act, so we're bringing in a new law that removes all doubts and all obstacles to fighting crime, and at this point we're not alone. Some European Union states, such as Ireland, Slovenia, Germany, and Italy, have already made similar solutions.

The basis of the concept of the document we've passed yesterday, which we expect soon to return to the law, is to create the possibility of confiscating illegal property without a punishment act, that is, confiscating to civil procedure, which can be initiated even in the absence of a punishment act. This paves the way for an unwarranted property seizure to the suspected person to rise in the criminal court. Thus, the law we are aiming at confiscating unwarranted civilian-based property meets legislation on confiscating property in the criminal field. Thus, where laws complement each other, we will have more efficiency of the legal state and the crackdown on crime and corruption.

The new law will not affect the existing legal framework in the area of seizure. In fact, all existing legal framework will continue to remain in force to fight criminality. Furthermore, civil seizure will serve as a last resort and will not adopt, in principle, the primat of traditional criminal seizure. The way this works in practice will depend on the further process of drafting the law, but what will be preserved is that the new law should enable that when it is suspected that the acquired property was made on illegal ways then action should be enabled for sequentification and the confiscation of illegal property on civilian roads.

In this direction, the new law will aim to pave the way for establishing a new non-prosecutal agency, which aims to be specialised in combating crime and confiscating illegal and unwarranted property. This agency will be independent and will operate the investigation into unwarranted civilian property.

But even the new agency we intend to establish is not new and unprecedented. In Great Britain we have the Agency for Crime that is compatible with the tracking organs, then we have Bulgaria with the Commission for Combating Corruption and Illegal Property as an independent state organ, etc.

Thus, we also have examples and experiences that we will follow to ensure that the process will be successful.

Of course, such a law will not pass without parliamentary and social debate. The document concept that was adopted yesterday has already been passed into the regular consultative process and will continue in regular procedure, with debates and depleting consultations so that we can remove all dilemmas and receive all guarantees that the new law will not violate private property and elementary freedoms. However, any discussion does not change the goal of creating the possibility of confiscating illegal property on civilian roads. What is inexplicable, unreasonable, unwarranted cannot be legal.

Dear citizens,

Our country is small and poor but our citizens are honest and responsible and want a fair and equal state. Your country with our rule must end and end the current era where it dominated the banner: your little salary, the big profit!”

None of us can spend the wealth we don't earn. In our daily life, we fry when we are embarrassed to ask for a loan, and we do all we can to live within our means, our wages, and our honest work. But you know that for a long time, those with their hands on the state budget did not have enough salaries and privileges but acquired wealth that they could not justify. That's not fair or fair, so we also have to act to create a country where everyone gets the money they deserve and pays his due.

The illegally acquired wealth is never private nor legal because it has never been acquired.

The government will act in accordance with pledges given to citizens and in line with the best practices to build a rule of law with equal opportunities and chances for all.

Thank you.