Did Enver Sekiraqa testify in the trial of former KLA leaders?

At the October 31st 2024 session, during the time that the protection of Jakup Krasniqi, represented by lawyer Venkateswari Alagedra, was questioning witness Nuredin Ibishi, Enver Sequiraq reported. “Battle for Justice”, Transmitted Periscope.

In that session, Ibishi admitted that Sekiraq was known as a troubled person since the 1990s and that he was in prison because of a criminal sentence he was given. The sentence in question brought against Sekirras, Ibishi stressed that it involved the murder of police officer Triumf Riza.

You're referring to this 25-year sentence for the murder of police officer Trifif Riza in 2007?

So you said that you believed Enver Sekiraqa was in prison because of this sentence you were given at the time you spoke to the Prosecutor two weeks ago? Now, I just want to show you this article. Did you know there was news that Enver Sekiraqa had escaped, so he was a fugitive at the time you spoke to the Prosecutor? This is an article from May 17, 2024. So, you knew he was a fugitive and he wasn't in jail right now?

Ibishi, on the other hand, claimed that he had information before coming to The Hague to give a witness, Sekiraqa was a fugitive.

That's right. He's a fugitive”, Ibishi said during that session.

Ibiish was later presented with an article that, according to the lawyer, was published in 2010 after the sentence Sekiraqa received in 2007 on this occasion.

This article was from an international media in which Sekiraqa was considered the main figure of organised crime in Kosovo, living in Ireland and being on the Interpol wanted list.

These articles, Alagedra, had proposed that they be accepted into material evidence, but Judge Guénawl Mettraux had intervened.

“Zj. Alagedra, before we do this, what's the point? Are you telling us Enver Sekiraqa is a bad person and we shouldn't believe anything he said about his prevention, his imprisonment and all this stuff?

Although Alagedra had responded that these articles confirm that Sekiraqa had escaped from justice, the judge had sought to know why this information is important.

Because it's about credibility, so Mr. Sekiraqa” had responded to Alagedra.

Accepting these evidence had opposed prosecutor Sylvia Déscoli.

Honored “, I object to the basis of this request being made. Because, in fact, the lawyer discussed it with the witness and he talked exactly about matters of credibility, so this witness and he talked about these things, so we don't see why they're useful, why these documents should be useful to the Court to get to”, Ascoi said.

Whether these articles were accepted as evidence or not, they were told that they would be established at another time, but those documents received the test number.

I knew to decide on the admission of these documents to the test was just the progress conference on this case on April 23, 2025.

At this conference, the chairman of the court, Charles Smith III, had said that these articles spoke of a person convicted of serious crimes and that he had later escaped from justice. According to the judge, this person was the victim of a alleged crime described in the prosecution's pretrial file.

“All three documents are press articles suggesting that a victim of alleged crime described in the prosecution's pretrial file was later convicted of serious crimes and said to have escaped from justice”, Smith III said.

The chairman of the court had estimated that documents in question are relevant to the credibility of the person allegedly kept banned by the KLA.

He said many witnesses and also witness 04758, code belonging to Nuredin Ibishi in this process, have testified.

But for this person who turns out to be Enver Sekiraqa, Smith said he was not called to give a witness.

“Anyway, the court notes that The person who is the object of these articles is not called upon to give a witness”, he said.

The judge again reiterated that Sekiraqa has not gone to testify at The Hague in the case of former KLA leaders.

The fact that Witness 04758 was unable to comment truthfully on the contents of these articles and that the person in question did not come here to address the authenticity of this content will be considered when given the specific weight and promotional value of these materials. Keeping in mind the above, the court acknowledges as judicial evidence the material 4D0093, 94, and 95, and instructs the Administrative Office toua removes its pro-visitor”, Smith III said.

The fact that these documents are the same ones discussed in the two hearings in this case is based on the provisual numbers the court gave you before they received a trial number.

Otherwise, on May 3, 2024 The Constitutional Court in Pristina has sentenced Enver Sekirrah to 25 years in prison for inciting police to murder Trife Riza. The accused Sekiraqa with a special ruling was interrupted by the house arrest measure.

While, the Special Department of Appeals, on May 17, 2024, following the Special Prosecutor's complaint on the Foundation's decision, which on May 3rd, 2024 had interrupted that the house arrest measure by allowing it to be defended in freedom, ruled that Sekiraqa would return to custody until the court took a firm form.

But the day after that decision, police have announced that they have not found Sekiraq at home to escort him into custody. Sekiraqa is still on the run.

Apel's decision was confirmed by the Supreme, and Sekiraqa filed a complaint on the run through his lawyer at the Constitutional Court. He had claimed violations of his fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution in the ruling of the Supreme Court of July 1, 2024.

The Constitutional Court had deemed Enver Sekiraq's complaint unacceptable.

Otherwise, the Kosovo Judiciary Council (KGJK) had found it responsible for disciplinary violations of Judge Agim Kuci, who had interrupted the measure of house arrest by Enver Sekirakiqes -- which is still on the run, making written public remarks and pay cuts of 20% for the six-month period.

In April 2014, the Special Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo had filed charges against Enver Seker Sequirah for three criminal acts, for inciting the murder of Triumf Riza, <x0detyrim” and “rape”, where the first-degree court had declared him innocent.

The prosecution claims the incident occurred in “Swiss Casino” between Sequirah and Riza was one of the motives that led to the killing of Triumf Riza.

In “incident Swiss Casino” had occurred in December 2006, while Enver Sekiraqa and several of his escorts were included on one side, and the late Triumf Riza of Arben Selmani on the other. Arben Selmani was left in this seriously injured incident.

Triumf Riza was killed on 30 August 2007, for which Arben Berisha was sentenced to 35 years in prison, while Enver Sekiraqa was sentenced to 37 years in prison. /Periscope/