Enhancing the indictment against Thaci, others expected to postpone early trial

Taulant Hodaj, a lawyer accredited by the Special, estimates that expanding the indictment will further delay the trial's start against former KLA leaders.

If you have seen those first public presentations there is scheduled last year for the trial to begin, and they have been continually postponed only with that act, now with its expansion there will no doubt be delays in the period when the trial begins. I don't believe that this year will start the trial at all because it will take a lot of time, it is now up to the right of protection to reject, and many other motions that he will use, as well as the prosecution has its right to respond to their objections, and this takes time as the practice has shown us in this case two years' time past”, he says.

Speaking of this case, which is still in preliminary procedure, Hodaj says considerable time will be needed for preparing the subject and handing over its juro body, which then paves the way for the trial start.

As for the submissions to take place at The Hague tribunal tomorrow, Hodaj says they will be declared about the provisions of the indictment's expansion.

“has become the change of the indictment in terms of enlargement, so expanding the two-point indictment has added some more cases to the four accused. So there are these accused and the points of the indictment the same as they were before but several locations have been added. After that, the implementation of the evidence procedure regulations runs a deadline of protection to make their objections to this” procedure, he says.

The Special Court has announced that “following the handover of the amended indictment, the Pre-Precious Procedure Judge in the Thaci case, and others appointed further presentations for each charged on May 10th 2022”.

According to the court, April 29, 2022 Z The SP has handed over the amended indictment against Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veselin, Jakup Krasniqi and Rexhep Selimi.

Former KLA leaders are being held at The Hague detention centre from November 2020.

The act against them in connection with the war crimes claim has been confirmed on October 26, 2020, while in their presentation of the first Specialised Chambers in The Hague they have been declared innocent.

Before the trial of the preliminary procedure, Thaci and others will appear on Tuesday, and their presentations, which will be separated, will begin by 10:00. /kp/