Prizren court rejects request for detention of municipal official, Osmanloaj Hope

Its ban was made after the transmission of “Justice Trust” entitled “Number game for building permits”.

The Constitutional Prosecutor in Prizren had submitted a request to the Constitutional Court in this city on Friday for the appointment of a 30-day official municipal detention measure.

Urbanism official in Prizren's municipality, the Osmanolaj Hope was banned on Thursday for 48 hours with the Constitutional Prosecutor's decision in Prizren.

Under the decision, the court has decided that a month-long house arrest measure should be appointed against the defendant, starting from June 19th to July 19th 2025.

Osmanolaj, senior official at the Urbanism Directorate in Prizren municipality, allegedly committed in co-ordination the abuse of office or official authority, contrary to Article 414 of the Penal Code, in two separate cases and under different circumstances.

The prosecution claimed the defendant poses a danger of escape, as there are family ties outside Kosovo, as well as a risk of influence on other co-ordinations, for whom the launch of investigations has also been ordered. It was also stressed that there is an indictment against her filed for the same criminal offence in another case.

However, the court did not assess it as being based on the request for detention and decided that the easier measure, home arrest, is enough to ensure the defendant's presence during the investigation.

Under the court's ruling, Osmanolaj cannot leave her home in Prizren and is not allowed to have contact with persons he does not live with or depend on.

The court has ordered Prizren Police Station to implement and monitor the move, immediately announcing the court in case of any violations.

“The complaint does not suspend the execution of this action”, the official document of June 21st 2025 says.

According to the prosecution, there is doubt that Osmanolaj has committed criminal work “The use of official position or authority”, according to Article 414 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kosovo.

The investigation raises suspicions that Osmanolaj as the official of Urbanism had illegally issued construction permits for the residential object “liquidation 2” with a parcel that was used for technical conditions and construction permits of the residential object “Freedom 117x3>.

In a telephone response, Osmanolaj had denied that the same parcel for both construction permits had been used, stating that the first was issued with the Law for Construction, while the second issuing with the Prizren Zone Map.

But Osmanola's actions had not only ended with the release of construction permits.

It had issued a certificate for the use of the “Freedom 1”, although the object had exceeded construction permit, building and a home.

For this illegal construction, the Directorate of Inspectors had even exercised criminal gossip at the prosecutor seven months before Osmanolaj issued the certificate of use.

On the other hand, Osmanollaj is currently under investigation by the Constitutional Prosecutor in Prizren, as well as for issuing the building permit of the residential and business object “Albanica Home”, since the same had enabled the construction of two floors more than is envisioned with the Systemial Map.

Thus, enabling millions to gain, the brother of the mayor's cabinet cabinet chief, Nehat Elshani, Albert Elshani.

For this, the case prosecutor, Ervehe Gashi, has declared they are awaiting expertise. /Periscope/