The Special Prosecutor for Murati's statements on the 2.1 million stolen: Harmful and Unprofessional

Asked about the investigative process of this case, in an interview for the <x0 display The DPT at Fidan”, which was broadcast on July 12th 2021, has declared that he hopes very soon the indictment will rise, because, according to him, if this does not happen this month, it is considered the duration of the process.

The process is in the D.A. I'm definitely interested, but I couldn't get too many details, given that it was a prosecution request not to be promoted in detail, but I'm hoping it was too soon, that if it doesn't happen this month, we're talking about an unnecessary extension of the process. I believe it was too soon to get an accusation, that the charge was not raised. We're talking about a case where there's not a dilemma behind what happened, so there's time stamps on the information system, there's time stamps, you know, you know who's got exactly what bo has, and there's a lot of dilemmas about what happened since the job was going on and it wasn't going to take so long, but I'm sure I'm pretty soon to believe it was going to work. As I said, I'm also constantly interested in what's going on in a part of this interview.

In this regard, Minister Murati's statement, “Justice Trust” has requested information on P The SRK saw this statement through spokesman Ekrem Lutfiu, The SPRK has stressed that this Murati statement is harmful and unprofessional.

And so, P The SRK has stressed that such statements by public officials do not contribute to professional and independent investigations, as well as the discovery of criminal acts and their perpetrators, but rather according to the SPRK, such statements in which deadlines are set for when an indictment arises or investigations can only complicate these processes, as competent to that fact are only the prosecutor of the case.

Subtitles by Iron Murati, given on “DPT at Fidan” on T7 Television on July 12th 2021, in the case of the theft of 2.1m euros in the Ministry of Finance and Transfers, the Special Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo estimates the same is unprofesssional and harmful. The SPRK estimates that such public statements by state officials for cases that are still in the phase of investigations do not contribute to professional and independent investigations, as well as to the discovery of criminal acts and their perpetrators, but can complicate these processes, especially when deadlines are set when investigations should be completed and the prosecution act established. For public opinion information, all of this is the exclusive competence of the prosecution body, the prosecutor's case, respectively.”, says in part of this PSRK response.

Regarding fulfilling the legal conditions of well-based suspicion of setting up the indictment, The PSRK has indicated that given the complexity of the case and the need to implement international judicial co-operation procedures, this case is being addressed with high priority and without procrastination.

Taking into account the complexity of the case and the need to implement international judicial co-operation procedures, this case, as well as all other cases in P The SRK, is being treated with high priority and there is no procrastination in his investigation. At the moment of finalisation of the investigation, the prosecution will decide on the establishment of the indictment act”, the SPRK's response reported.

After in Minister Murati's interview, he has stated that at the prosecution's request he cannot be promoted in this case, “Justice Vow” has sought to be informed by P The SRK on which legal basis of the Criminal Procedure Code, the State Prosecutor informs the minister of the development of an investigative process.

On this subject, P The SRK has responded that they have communication with all institutions, but that with Minister Murati have not discussed the case investigation process.

In terms of the Ministry's announcement of concrete case investigations, we announce that P The SRK maintains the spirit of inter-initiation co-operation with all institutions in the functioning implementation of the legal mandate and discussions with competent state institutions are only about legal modalities for turning frozen financial means into bank accounts, which are related to concrete cases, and for no moment is discussed in case investigations of”, the P response said. SRK for “Justice Vow”.

At the end of that answer, The PSRK emphasises that this case is addressing it with high seriousness and does not allow the quality of investigations to be influenced by political statements by state officials or any other person.

“P The SRK expects all, indiscriminately, to refrain from statements regarding cases that are in the investigation phase due to the sensitivity of issues handled and are not information that can be shared with the public. In conclusion, we feel an obligation to ensure that P once again The SRK is handling it with the highest seriousness and the right level of urgency, which this case deserves and does not allow the quality of investigations to be influenced by the political statements of state officials or any other individual” is said to be in the PSRK's response”, in this response.

Regarding these responses of the PSRK, the “Justice Trust” has tried to contact Minister Murati by calling him, sending e-mail and texting, but not yet receiving answers.

Otherwise, regarding this case, the defendant L.G. is suspected that by the date 9 October 2020 in the quality of the official person has misused his official task by conducting transactions worth 2,077,995.90 euros in address to a company in which actions have caused damage to the Kosovo Republic's budget in many of the 2,077,995.90 euros, and allegedly carried out the criminal work “Kekquist use of official position or authority” by the 414th Penal Code of the Republic of Kosovo.

Along with L.G., K is in this case suspected of money laundering. The S and both currently found themselves in detention.