Appeal lowers Luques' defence and” American Hospital Kosova”, confirmed indictment for money laundering

So the Special Prosecution Act was confirmed.

Ekrem Luka, owner of Kosovo's “Cardial Centre” along with Corab Luqen, Klodian Allaybeu shareholder and legal representative of “American Hospital Kosova” with Igli Larasin, executive director at that Hospital, as well as owner of <x4Mendrand KS”, Edlira Malaj is accused of delivering money through a counterfeiting scheme of documents and presentation of false documents in the Kosovo Tax Administration. All these actions, the five indictees are charged with having done them when they realize they are being investigated by ATK and the Special Prosecutor, reports “Battle for Justice”, broadcast Periscope.

Random history:

Initially the matter was being judged by the judge, Vesel Ismajli, who had approved the request to drop the indictment and counter the evidence, but the Court of Appeals had broken the Foundation's decision by turning the case into restoration.

After the return to re-establishment of the case is being tried by the court, Mediae Bytyqi, who had refused to drop the indictment and contest the evidence, thus confirming the SPRK indictment.

At the initial session, held on March 20, 2025, Luqa's defender, lawyer Dastid Pallaska had demanded that the second review be held for opposition to evidence and request to drop the indictment. For this, the chairman of the court, Judge Vesel Ismaili, had declared that with the new legal changes of the Penal Procedure Code, it is not provided to keep this session.

Otherwise, at the initial session on March 20, 2025, Ekrem Luka, Korab Luka, Klodian Allaybeu, Igli Larashi and Edlira Malaj were declared innocent.

What about Apel's second decision?

The Appeals Court's ruling, compiled on April 30th 2026, was made by the college consisting of judges: Mentor Bajraktari- head of college and Aferdita Bytyqi and Ferit Osmani-members.

The appeal finds that the complaining act is not involved in essential violations of the pre-procedure criminal procedure provisions with the Code of Criminal Procedure, or other violations, which would condition the annulment of this act.

According to Appeal, the first degree ruling contains sufficient and consistent reasons in the case of refusing requests for dropping the prosecution and rejecting evidence presented by defenders of the accused.

The foundation decision, therefore, is said to contain no essential violations, which have claimed defenders in their complaints, adding that the decision is clear, concrete and his reasoning is in full accordance with the device.

Therefore, Appeals in the decision has pointed out that the first straight scale has concluded that the indictment filed by P The SRK contains the necessary legal elements as required with the Criminal Procedure Code, and that there is no reason for dropping the indictment as the KPP's causes do.

Furthermore, according to the decision, a considerable number of relevant documents and materials -- including contracts, agreements and bills -- are included in the subject documents and materials, creating sufficient legal standards for well-based suspicion when the indictment has been established.

The second degree has stressed that in this phase of the procedure, no final assessment of the evidence is made and no plea is established, but only verify whether such evidence levels exist that will convince an objective observer of the existence of criminal work and its connection to the accused.

Regarding the indictment's deadline claims, Appely in the decision has found that the indictment has been established within the terms of the investigation, based on the date of the indictment's decision to start the investigation on October 12th, 2022, and the requirement for expansion of investigations objectively and subjectives of November 10, 2023 and January 21st 2024, as well as the decision of the Court to approve the length of the investigation deadlines -- the decision of September 12th 2024.

Apel also found that the first instance correctly denied the defenders' claim regarding the prescribing of criminal acts and that the start of the prescription is linked to the moment of document usage and not the time to compile documents.

The appeal has stressed that the first degree during the court review hearings will assess whether it concerns technical mistakes or deliberate actions by the accused and will ultimately determine whether there is criminal responsibility for the accused.

Similarly, Appeals stresses that neither is the defence claim that all investigative materials have been offered in order to create the conditions to challenge evidence supporting the prosecution. It also stresses that neither is the claim that the elements of “criminal acts have been fulfilled. Forging” documents because of a lack of will, because according to Apel, these circumstances are valued during the judicial review after full management of evidence.

Following this Apel decision, the Foundation is expected to set up a hearing for judicial review.

Initially, the Constitutional Court in Pristina had rejected the Special Prosecutor's Act on Ekrem Luka, Korab Luka, Klodian Allaybeut, Igli Laras and Edlira Malajs, as well as three legal men “American Hospital Kosova”, “Medbrand KS” and Kosovo's “Cardial Centre”, over the charge of laundering money through forged documents.

Against foundation decision, in legal terms the complaint had filed The PSRK due to substantial violations of criminal procedure provisions and misappreciated or incomplete assessment of the actual situation. He proposed that Appeals approve the whole complaint as the decision to change it and allow the indictment against the defendants to pass into judicial justification or cancel the case and return it to restoration.

The response to the prosecution's complaint has been presented by defendants: defenders of the criminal “American Hospital Kosova” Shp.k., lawyer Virtue Ibrahimaga, defendant Edlira Galanji-Malaj, lawyer Naim Rudari, defendant defender Klodian Allajbeu, lawyer Ilagi Dhargi Dhargiti, defendant Ekrem Luka, lawyer Dast Pallaska, defender of the criminal <x2ndre> Kardij>, Kosovo's lawyer, Vsajolog, lawyer, UNCHACHAHACHBERCH lawyer, Krsric, and lawyer.

All mentioned have proposed that the prosecution's complaint be rejected and that the complaint be confirmed. And the Appeals Prosecutor with the July 22nd 2025 parade has proposed that PSRK's complaint be approved, while refusing as groundless answers filed by defendants' defenders.

After reviewing the subject papers and the assessment of the claims filed in complaints and answers in complaints, Apel found that the complaint is based and annulled the Constitutional Court's decision in Pristina, with which it was rejected by the special prosecution, so it turned the case into a restoration to the Foundation.

At the initial session on March 20, 2025, Ekrem Luka, Korab Luka, Klodian Allaybeu, Igli Larashi and Edlira Malaj had been acquitted.

What's it say at the Special Prosecutor's Act that special prosecutor Dren Paca set up?

In the initial indictment of the Special Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo (PSRK), which has provided “Justice Trust“, details have been given about how these five persons allegedly presented bills and documents with non-registered subjects in order to legitimise bank transactions and benefit over 3m euros.

Edlira Malaj is tasked with counterfeiting the document because she owns “Medbrand The KS” had used forged documents and sent them to Kosovo Tax Administration.

According to the prosecution, Malaj had used the forged document- the contract for trading in the middle of “Medbrand KS” and “American Hospital Kosova” connected on 23.10.2014, as long as “Medbrand The KS” had not been as a registered subject at the time the deal was reportedly reached.

Klodian Allaybeu acting on “American Hospital Kosova” and the director of this hospital, Igli Larashi, are charged with counterfeiting documents, arguing that they had used forged documents for trading in value of 4, 703, 999, 98 (4.7m euros) of the date 23,10.2014 between retailers “Mand Kx43> and buyers <x4Ameracan Hospix> and similar documents were presented to the Kosovo Administration. By the time the deal for sale was signed, according to the indictment, “Medbrand KS” was not registered subject.

The other item's point is to assign Edlira Malaj, Igli Larasin and Corab Luka, who was representative of the “Karadica Centre of Kosovo” that they signed forged documents and false content. They are charged with signing it in March 2021 “Contrats for the collection of cashable accounts” of the date 23,12.2020 and using it by handing it over The ATK's, in order to put into effect that they had signed before ATK had launched investigative procedures against them.

According to the indictment, Malaj, Larashi and Luka had carried out this action with the aim of legitimising the failure to pay 1.572.842,000 (1.5m) euros on the part of “American Hospital Kosova” and the <x2 Kosovo Cardian Centre”.

In addition, the other point of the indictment charges Klodian Allaybeun, Edlira Malain and Corab Luka for signing the forged and false document as “Anex contract for the selection of cashable accounts” of the date 22.03.2021 with the aim of legitimising the failure of the bill between “Amerian Hospital Kosova” and <x4th> the Kosovo Cardical Frame5> worth 1.55> (72).150 million euros.

The other point of the indictment charges Edlira Malaj and Ekrem Luka as the owner of the “Kosovo Cardiac Centre” that counterfeit and false documents were signed at the co-production and the same presented to him ACT's in order to put it on the wash ATK says that the device trading from the “The Kosovo Cardiac Center” to “Medbrans Ks”.

The next point of the indictment is again loaded by Edlira Malaj along with Corab Luka for signing the written and false documents with a purpose to put it into play ATK intended to justify the failure to issue a bill worth 1.572.842,000 (.5m euros).

Klodian Allaybeu is accused of using three forged documents and sending them to the Kosovo Police in order to launch police and Prosecution for purchase of equipment from “Medbrand KS”, worth 4,703,999.98 euros, was taken by the Board of “American Hospital Kosova” on October 20, 2014, even though he was aware that by this date “Medbrand KS” did not exist as a registered subject.

The other points are again charged by Edlira Malane, Klodian Allaybeun, and Igli Laras, Ekrem Luka and Corab Luka, that by using counterfeit documents they make illegal money worth 3,482,000 euros.

Always according to the indictment, the five accused, using counterfeit documents, manage to disguise, hide the nature of the real source, convert and transfer from a business account to another business account, to personal accounts inside and outside Kosovo, to get later into possession and exploitation as legal money.

<x0) KS”, in 05.11.2014, along with defendant Klodian Allaybeu and Ekrem Luka compile forged document “contrats for trading” 30.05.2014, under which legal subject “Medbrand KS” allegedly and with the aim of executing the high contract during 2015 releases two forged bills of the date 24.07.2015 worth 1.572.842.00 euros issued by Kosovo's “Cardical Centre for “Medbrand K” and the bill of the date 27.07.2015 worth 4,709.98 euros, issued by “Medbrand Ks” for American Hospital Kosova”, further reported in the indictment.

According to the indictment, Malaj had benefited from 3,131,158.00, where most of these tools are transferred and pulled to the Republic of Albania as a screw. Some of these tools had been transferred to Austria to her and her son Riggers Malaj.

Thus, the indictment charges Klodia Allayban, Ekrem Luka, Korab Luqa, Igli Larash, and Edlira Malain for washing money.

“From the 10,08.2015 ongoing until 2023, indicted judicial subjects 1. “Medbrand KS” S.p.k. person responsible once owner Edlira Malaj, 2. “American Hospital Kosova” Shp.k with persons responsible once the shareholders and legal representative Klodian Allaybeu and executive director Igli Larashi, 3. “Sh.p.k with responsible persons once owner and legal representative Ekrem Luka and Corab Luka, using forged documents described as being in the “device by VI”, manage to achieve access or illegal money to the value of 3,482,000 LLC, which money is then meant to look legal, using the same documents, mask them and hide their true nature or source and convert them (in real real real estate), transfer a business account to the business account, personal owners inside and outside of Kosovo's territory, and use them as the most legitimate act of command.

According to the indictment, they have consistently committed criminal work “Money laundering”, defined in Article 308 regarding Article 40 and 81 of KPRK No. 04/L-082 and related to Article 56 par.1 under par.1.6 of the Law to prevent money laundering and combat terrorism financing. /Periscope/