Paul Lekat's lawyer: The baseless act does not indicate where the 53 million famous ones went

It adds, too, that this indictment does not meet the basic legal requirements, is in itself controversial and unclear, and that point 1 and 2 of the accuser act has failed to describe correctly and Cuncise in what country, way and time and what are the incriminating actions of my defense, former minister Paul Lekaj.

In such statements, the lawyer Damati made it Friday at the second review session until Paul Lekaj said he has nothing to add, but that he supports his defender's stance.

Lawyer Damati said it is of gross interest that the rejected accuser act has failed to solve the mystery of where they are left or where the famous 53 million ended up, in whose account they have gone, in the account of my defending not.

According to him, this accuser has not even managed to track them down, reports “The Justice Act”.

“Highway Project “Arba Xhaferi”, according to him, was founded and started with the government's decision No.06/78 on June 12, 2012, so long before my client, former Prime Minister Lekaj, took over his responsibilities and mandate as minister. Also, the entire course of procedure from my defense has been processed through the Inter-ministerial Steering Committee, which has not been composed solely of the infrastructure minister, but out of a total of 5 ministers”, lawyer Damati has said.

On May 4th, former Minister of Infrastructure, Pal Lekaj and others had been declared innocent in the case of “53m euros”.

In this case accused of misusing official office except Paul Lekaj are also the Eset Berisha, Paul Lekaj's senior political adviser, Nebih Shatri, former Secretary General at the Ministry of Infrastructure (MI) and Besim Tahiri, director of Public Procurement in this ministry.

Otherwise, the Special Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo (PSRK) on February 4th 2021 had filed an indictment of Lekaj and others in the case of 53 million highway.

On the other hand, lawyer Damati has said the contract, which is the object of the accuser act, was signed with the consortium “Bechtel Enka”, was signed on July 1, 2014, long before his client received the minister's mandate.

The “Work and the prosecution of decision-making in this case has been Collegiant and not individual, as the Prosecutor claims. It has been open voting decision making that there are transcripts of”, he said.

According to lawyer Damati, his protector, as the conspiracy of actions inherited from his ancestors, past governments, has been in a situation in which he would have risked arbitration for the Republic of Kosovo, and in this way the criminal act for which he was charged, abuse of office or official authority, could be manifested by no action, costing the state budget even more.

“Continued demands of the consortium and demand for extension of the tools were made not by my client, but by the finance ministers of past mandates”, he has said.

Past governments have not been paying time, according to Damatt, and as a result, he said his client has been brought into a situation where it should have been a minister, given legal competencies and as chairman of the inter-ministerial committee, to play a decision-making role.

He said Lekaj has not authorised the transaction of 53m euros, but the Interministerial Committee, in accordance with the legal framework, has followed the recommendation, and the Government of the Republic of Kosovo, at open meetings for the public and by majority of votes makes the decision on June 5th 2018. So the authorisation of 53 million celebrities is not by my client, but the legal framework has been processed for further examination of the higher organs, which have also decided on the matter under legislation in effect.

According to lawyer Damatti, his client, through law action, has avoided the constitutionalisation of the abuse of official office, completely avoiding responsibility and decision-making as minister, because this work could be manifested, in the contrary not to his action.

We consider that, in addition to that, in this legal criminal case, the investigation by the prosecution's body and the case of expansion and the ongoing demand for investigations” has been exceeded, the defence attorney has declared.

He added, too, that there is not enough evidence that his defender has committed burdensome criminal acts, and that even because he does not describe the constitutional law.

“Even the indictment device has not been able to prove concrete actions through which the criminal work figure for which my guardian is charged” added Damati.