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Indictment against eight persons for falsifying documents

Prizren, 05 June 2020 - The Basic Prosecution in Prizren, General Department, has filed an indictment against the defendants M.H., D.G., A.R., M.B., D.M., E.Xh., F.Xh., and B.A., because there is a well-grounded suspicion that in co-perpetration and continuity they have committed the criminal offense “Falsifying documents” under Article 390 paragraph 3 in conjunction with paragraph 2, and in conjunction with Articles 31 and 77 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kosovo (CCRK).
According to the indictment, the defendants: M.H., D.G., A.R., M.B., D.M., and E.Xh., from the beginning of 2018, until 09.10.2019, in Prizren, Prishtina, Obiliq and Mitrovica, in cooperation with one - the other, compile falsifying documents, in order to use those documents as original, so that being part of a group, they act in co-perpetration in order to commit criminal offenses acquiring material benefit, in such a way that different persons who have not applied at all for the provision of the document in the relevant institutions, first reach a consent with the defendants M.H., and D.G., which verbal requests the latter forward to the defendant A.R., which is then forwarded to the defendant M.B., D.M., and E.Xh., and the latter falsify the documents in question, each performing his role and providing applicants/citizens from Kosovo and Albania with fake high school diplomas, in exchange to payments in amount of 1,300 to 2000 euros per degree.
The same documents are organized by the group, passing them hand to hand, each performing its own actions, first handed over to the defendant A.R., the latter handed over to the defendants M.H., and D.G., which are then handed over by these defendants to persons who have been interested in having the said documents, who in return pay the sums of money.  
They do this until 09.10.2019, where through the application of covert measures, through camouflaged and infiltrated officials, officials manage to apply for documents from this group and later on to be provided with the diploma issued in the name of the person under camouflage, who receives this diploma and allegedly he graduated from the “Hasan Tahsini” Technical High School in Obiliq, all in exchange for paying the latter 1,300 euros, in which case defendants M.H., and A.R., were caught red-handed by officials police at the time they were exchanging money and diplomas along with falsified school grades certificate. With these actions, there is a well-founded suspicion that the defendants in co-perpetration and continuity have committed the criminal offense “Falsifying documents”.
Whereas, the defendants: M.H., A.R., F.Xh., and B.A., at an indefinite time, until 09.10.2019, in Prizren, Prishtina and Podujeva, compile falsifying documents, in order to use those documents as original, so that being part of a group, they act in co-perpetration in order to committing criminal offenses to acquire material benefit, in such a way that various persons who have not applied at all for the provision of the document in the relevant institutions, initially reached a consent with the defendants M.H., and A.R., which verbal requests the latter forward them to the defendant F.Xh., and the latter to the defendant B.A., who falsifies the documents in question by providing the applicants/citizens with false diplomas for performing independent activity.
The same documents in an organized manner of the group, passing hand to hand, each carrying out his actions, are handed over to persons who have been interested in having the said diplomas, who in return pay the sums of money, they did so until 09.10.2019, where through the application of covert measures, through camouflaged and infiltrated officials, it is achieved that this group applies and provides a diploma which bears the name of the person under camouflage, which diploma is issued allegedly certifying that the graduate carried out independent business activity in providing service for electricity installations - low voltage and which is dated 15.06.2009, all this was paid 500 euros per degree, in which case, the defendants M.H., and A.R. , are caught red-handed exchanging money and falsifying diplomas.
With these actions, there is a well-founded suspicion that in co-perpetration and continuously the defendants have committed the criminal offense, “Falsifying documents" according to the CCRK.
On this occasion, Prosecutor of the case, having filed the indictment, proposed the Court that the defendants be found guilty and sentenced according to the law, for the criminal offense, which are charged to them.