Burdushi sentenced to over 4 years in prison, 42 thousand euros in fine

The Constitutional Court in Pristina on Tuesday has declared condemnation of Hysri Peqan, known as “Burdushi”, over the charge of illegal exercise of medical or pharmaceutical activity, money laundering and illegal weapons, condemning him with a unique sentence of 4 years and 6 months in prison and 42 thousand euros in fines. Act on [...]
The indictment against Peqan was proclaimed by the chairman of the court, Judge Lutfi Shala, reports “The Justice Trust“.
At the December 23rd 2022 session, prosecutor Merita Bina-Rugova in the final address has announced that she has made precise the first device of the indictment, which she has divided into two parts, but said the qualifications of the criminal act is the same.
According to the indictment, from the unproved time of at least July 15, 2005, to July 26th 2019, accused Hysri Peqani-Budushi has treated people with primary activity, other human health activities, on June 15th 2005, and on July 26, 2019, in Prizren, accused Hysri Peqani-Budushi, has treated different persons on the false presentation of facts as having supernatural abilities.
This, according to the indictment, has been done, although there were no professional medical qualifications and no relevant licenses.
According to the prosecution, Peqan had done so with the aim of illegally profiting property.
The same indictment is said to have carried out improvised, futile treatments, and inciting them to pay various amounts of money from 20 euros to more than 3 thousand euros, so that this ongoing criminal act has resulted in illegal property benefits of about 1m euros.
For these, he was accused of committing criminal work “the illegal exercise of medical or pharmaceutical activity” by Article 262, KPRK's paragraph 1 concerning the ongoing criminal fraud work by Article 335, paragraph 5 of the Penal Code.
The Special Prosecutor charged the accused Peqani with even the criminal act of “Art kept without permission”, since, according to the indictment, during police search at his house in Prizren, weapons were found, type pistol “Girsan” and type hunting rifle “Super Champion”.
The prosecution claimed that “Burdushi”, in order to hide property acquired through criminal activities, starting in 2006, has put such money into the banking system with the reasoning that it thus pays the loan installments and then has carried it out through bank transfers, so that it has ultimately integrated them into playable and realistic assets.
For these actions, he was charged with “criminal work Money laundering” by Article 302 of KPRC regarding Article 32, paragraph 1 and 2, subparagraph 2.1 of the Law to Prevent Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing. / BpD












