Shpend Ahmeti is definitely expected to be tried: He had not declared 172 thousand euros

This, after the second-instance court é Apeli, has rejected Ahmeti's request for the indictment to be rejected, has also confirmed the launch of the trial, where the Special Prosecutor's Act on former Pristina chairman Shpend Ahmeti will be tried.

According to the indictment defendant Shpend Ahmeti has not declared financial means in many of his 54,400.00 euros accepted by his mother's personal accounts and 118 thousand euros. According to the Prosecutor, the total amount of undeclared means amounts to 172,600,000 euros.

Initially, the Constitutional Court, dated 02.04.26, had refused denial of evidence and request for the prosecution, submitted by the defense of defendant Shpend Ahmeti, lawyer Arber Istrefi.

Against the Foundation's decision, the complaint had exercised Ahmeti's protection due to essential violations of criminal procedure provisions, wrong and incomplete compliance with the actual situation, as well as violations of material provisions.

The defence had proposed to the Court of Appeals that its complaint be approved, reject the Foundation's decision and indictees Shpend Ahmeti's dismissal of criminal procedures.

On the other hand, the Appeals' Prosecutor's Prosecution of the date 24.04.26 has proposed that the defendant's complaint be turned down as unfounded, and the complaining act will be proven.

KA LLXO.com has contacted Ahmeti's lawyer, who has said he has accepted the appeals decision and has no comment on the finding of the decision.

I don't have a comment about it, we just expect the following procedure”- Istrefi said about KA LLXO.com.

Appeals Finding

The Court of Appeals has said that the Constitutional Court's ruling is fair and based on law, and that the first degree ruling does not contain procedural violations and violations of criminal law that would have influenced the fair establishment of the case.

According to Appeal, the Foundation has based the decision on evidence and on concrete circumstances and that the decision is clear and complete.

The appeal further in her decision has said the Foundation in its decision has included all defence claims and has concluded that the indictment supports sufficient evidence.

The second-instance court has said it agrees with the findings of the first degree since evidence containing the indictment results in a well-founded doubt that Ahmeti has not correctly declared the data regarding his wealth and has not declared his real income and cash deposits for 2018-2022 in the amount of over 172 thousand euros.

The appeal further has been reconciled to the findings of the Foundation, where it says there is a well-based doubt that Ahmeti in neither of the regular claims of property over the years has declared the amounts of money deposited in cash available to bank accounts, as well as the money transferred from his mother.

The financial expertise is mentioned in Apel's decision.

Appely has made clear in her decision that at this stage the issue is not considered on the ground and that the decision is not made to finalise it but that it is only the subject of evidence to support whether there is well-based doubt and whether the evidence is in accordance with the law.

According to Appeal, there is no found existence of any unacceptable evidence that would affect their expulsion.

According to Appeals regarding the defence claims that willing money deposits have been legal and their source is known, so there has been no obligation for their declaration, the appeal has seen them as unbased. According to Appeals based on domestic laws, it is determined that assets and financial means should be declared.

Based on this, according to Appeals the fact that monetary means may be legal or that their source is known does not rule out the legal obligation not to make a statement of wealth.

“Fulfilling the obligation for the declaration does not depend on the source of the tools”- says the reason for the Court of Appeals ruling.

Regarding the defence claim that the defendant had no intention in dealing with the criminal work he was charged with, according to Appeals, given the concrete circumstances of the case that the defendant has submitted regular annual property statements consistently, has had full access to the forms of property statements and relevant legislation, as well as given the level of education, the public position he exercised, resulting in the same having been fully aware of his legal obligation regarding the property declaration.

Regarding the claim that the work has not been carried out consistently, the Appeal does not stand. The second degree of the judiciary has said that evidence in the case results in the amount of money accepted and deposited in the defendants' bank accounts of 2018-2022.

“Colegi fully agrees with the completion of the first degree court that at this stage of the criminal procedure, there are no circumstances for dropping the indictment”- it says in Apel's decision.

According to Appeal, the Special Prosecution Act has been established in accordance with the law and is based on evidence.

This decision by the Court of Appeals was made by college made up of judges: Avni Mehmeti (school chairman) Aferdita Bytyqi and Albina Shaban-Rama (members)

Shpend Ahmeti had not pleaded guilty to the work that is being placed on him at the initial review session held on 21,01,2026.

The Special Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo in 23.12.2025 has filed charges against Shpend Ahmeti.

The Special Prosecutor's indictment, provided by KALLXO.com, states that defendant Shpend Ahmeti over the time period from 2018 to 2022 in Pristina, in the quality of the Pristina municipality's mayor, even though obliged to make the declaration of annual property at the Agency for Prevention of Corruption, has deliberately submitted inaccurate property statements declaring no real income.

“As an official person, it has been obliged to make the exact, complete, and timely declaration of wealth, income, gifts, wealth benefits, and financial obligations, in the case of the presentation of annual statements near the Agency for Prevention of Corruption, has deliberately submitted inaccurate statements of wealth, not stating real revenue, respectively, not declaring the pre-cash deposits personally carried out during the current years, as well as through the (ATM) ATMs, in its personal assets of total, 118 euros. ”- said in indictment.

According to P SRK indictee Ahmeti has consistently committed criminal work “underreport or false reporting of wealth, income, gift, other material benefits or financial obligations.

Ahmeti was for two term Pristina chairman, the same had won as part of the Vetevendosje Movement the first mandate in 2013 and completed the second term in 2021.