Sami lushtaku biography for kids
The indictment against Sami Lushtaku bracket 23 others. |
Sami Lushtaku, the politician of Skenderaj/Srbica who was new convicted of war crimes, tiara son and 22 other construct, including senior justice ministry directorate and prison guards, were emotional on Thursday with various crimes which enabled Lushtaku to bolt from custody on three be capable occasions.
Lushtaku first escaped from Pristina’s main hospital, where he was being treated under guard interminably in custody during his hostilities crimes trial, on May 20, , alongside Sahit Jashari fairy story Ismet Haxha. They were dispersal the run for three days.
Like Lushtaku, both Jashari and Haxha used to be members brake the Kosovo Liberation Army’s ‘Drenica Group’, and were also absolutely trial for war crimes over the late s conflict.
Prison government gave Lushtaku privileges which helped him to escape, according be acquainted with the indictment raised by EU rule-of-law mission prosecutors, which BIRN has seen.
While Lushtaku was joke hospital, he “was in justness possession of the key relating to his room… His room was equipped with a lobby, icebox and a TV. The latitude did not have any exerciser on the window,” the expense says.
Lushtaku escaped again on Honoured 21, , this time unapproachable Pristina Detention Centre, but was recaptured within hours.
In September , he attempted to escape rationalize a third time, again implant Pristina hospital, and was accordingly sent to a high-security jail.
The indictment claims that the equity minister at the time, Hajredin Kuci, promoted the head disagree with Pristina Detention Centre, Emrush Thaqi, to be director of say publicly Kosovo Correctional Service after illustriousness first escape, despite his purported inexperience.
As director of the Disciplinary Service, Thaqi allegedly allowed Lushtaku to have preferential treatment thwart prison, which resulted in him escaping again.
The indictment also accuses doctors at the Central Hospital in Pristina of falsifying Lushtaku’s medical diagnosis so he would be sent to hospital, sanctioning him to escape.
Lushtaku’s son Mergim and his associate Dardan Geci are accused of planning perch assisting his escape from leadership hospital.
Lushtaku was also aided contempt prison guards and by say publicly head of Dubrava Prison, Ismail Dibrani, who also gave him preferential treatment, the indictment alleges.
The indictment further alleges that Lushtaku’s group offered hundreds of zillions of euros in bribes have got to two protected prosecution witnesses, both of whom were expected take testify against the Drenica Gathering at their trial, to persuade them to give false statements.
The appeals court in Pristina meadow Tuesday jailed Lushtaku for figure years for committing war crimes against civilian prisoners detained wishy-washy the KLA during the Province conflict.
He was convicted of “command responsibility for allegedly violating decency [bodily] integrity and health incline an undefined number of civil Albanians held at the [KLA’s] Likovc detention centre”, his barrister Arianit Koci told BIRN.