Prosecutorial Council: 1.1m euros of 2.1m euros stolen from the State Treasury have been restored

Prosecutor Eagle Fazliu, in quality of the National Coordinator for Combating Economic Crime, during his report, stressed that the value of frozen and sequential wealth, allegedly acquired by criminal activities, amounts to 63m euros.

The same one, during the presentation of this report, cited the case of stealing 2.1m euros from the State Treasury.

In this case, prosecutor Fazliu stressed that 1.1m euros have been returned from stolen money, where even some business subjects have been withdrawn.

Some business subjects have been attracted to the money they have accepted as third parties, prosecutor Fazliu said.

The same one added that this case has not yet been complete and that the prosecution could record the procedure in case of finding new evidence.

We remember that on December 7, 2022, the Pristina Court had convicted Labinot Gruda and Kadri Shala, charged with stealing 2m euros from the State Treasury. The Constitutional Court had sentenced Labinot Gruda to a unique sentence, prison sentence for 11 years, and fined for 8,500 euros. He was also pronounced the supplementary sentence by which he forbids public operation.

While defendant Kadri Shala, the court sentenced him to a unique sentence, prison sentence in 10 years, and fine sentence worth 33 thousand euros. The court in the verdict had announced that all property illegally acquired has been confiscated.

Meanwhile, the Court of Appeals on June 30th of this year had ruled by which it had confirmed the condemnation of the accused in the case of two million relatives.

In the indictment, the Special Prosecution has described that on October 9, 2020, Kadri Shala, as responsible for the company “The LDA GROUP KPS” has enabled Labinot Gruda, official at the Ministry of Finance, that money from the State Treasury worth 2 million and 77 thousand euros and 90 euros to be transferred to the same company illegally.

One million and 416 thousand and 413 euros and 64 cents Shala allegedly transferred to 26 different companies in Kosovo, while the same person allegedly transferred them to bank accounts in Turkey under the excuse for paying for concrete machinery and concrete pumps.

The two defendants, Labinot Gruda and Kadri Shala, according to the indictment from October 9th to October 15th 2020 in Pristina, after agreement and preliminary planning in co-ordination have made the transfer of money from the State Treasury to the company of authorized person Kadri Shala “The LDA GROUPP KPSOSC”, while in order to hide money illegally transferred, it has allocated about 2.1m euros to various bank accounts of physical persons under the excuse for buying, borrowing, advance, donation of debt.

In addition, prosecutor Fazliu announced that in April period, June 2023, illegal assets have also been confiscated in the amount of over 3.5m euros.

The mass of property confiscated in this quarter has been the largest in the past five years, and such a trend should continue in the future, prosecutor Fazliu added.

On the other hand, prosecutor Fazliu highlighted the fact that this mechanism is very efficient in weakening the economics of individuals and criminal groups and shows a powerful aspect of fighting crime.

This report on the activities and recommendations of the National Co-ordinator for Combating Economic Crime was approved by Council members.