Justice against Hakki Rugova is declared today

Rugova is accused of acting as chairman of the Istog municipality on August 1, 2014, and signed contracts with his brother's company, “Ma-Con” sh.p.k. for the construction of channeling for the villages of Cerca and Lubozhda, worth about 289 thousand euros.

For that charge, the Court will issue its verdict at 1500. The trial will be announced by the chairman of the court, Sami Shadaku, reports “The Justice Act”.

In this case, on June 10, 2021, prosecutor Ali Uka and Rugova's defender, lawyer Besnik Berisha had delivered their final words.

The prosecutor had demanded that Rugova be convicted and sentenced according to the law, as according to him Rugova, with the signing of the contract for his brother's company, had enabled the latter to realise financial interest.

On the other hand, Rugova's defence had insisted that the signing of Istog's chairman had been ineffective.

According to the act of Constitutional Prosecutor in Gjakova, founded on March 26, 2018, Haki Rugova is charged with acting as head of the Istog municipality on August 1, 2014, signing contracts with the “company. Ma-Con” sh.p.k. for building sewers for Cerca and Lubozhdez villages.

According to the indictment, at the moment of contract connection for construction work between the Istog municipality and the company “Ma-Con” sh.p.k. The company's director has been Gani Rugova, and the contract price has been 289,119.85 euros.

The prosecution's body claims that by these actions, accused Rugova, has enabled his brother, Gani Rugova, financial interest, to accuse him of committing the criminal work of conflict of interest.

Initially this subject was sent to the Constitutional Prosecutor in Pec, she had been delegated to prosecutor Haxhi Sinanaj, respectively.

But, the latter, on January 17th 2018 with the letter, was addressed to former head of the Constitutional Prosecutor in Gjakova, Ali Selimaj, and after consulting with former Prosecutor's Prosecutor of Appeals Hadzi Derguti, as well as with Peja's chief prosecutor, Agim Kurmeaj, the subject has been delegated to the Constitutional Prosecutor in Gjakova.

“The reason for sending this criminal case to the competence of this criminal case for defendant Haki Rugova is the fact that, in the same time that we have long known and are in social reports, so to be a fair and independent investigation, following consultation with Apel's chief prosecutor and the chief prosecutor of the Constitutional Prosecutor in Gjakova, we have agreed to send this criminal case to the authority of the Constitutional Prosecutor at Gjakova”, prosecutor Hadina Sinay wrote.

By contrast, Hakki Rugova, in the local elections of 2017, had won another term for the third time at the head of the Istog municipality.