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Detention on remand is requested against four persons for Smuggling of weapons

Ferizaj, March 26, 2021 - The Basic Prosecution in Ferizaj, Department for Serious Crimes, has submitted a request before the Basic Court in Ferizaj, to impose the detention on remand against four (4) defendants with initials A.L., from the municipality of Ferizaj, H.Z., - Viti commune, MK,-Ferizaj commune and E.I., - Prishtina municipality, who are in detention from 25 March 2021, due to reasonable suspicion of criminal offenses “Unauthorized Import, Export, Supply, Transport, Production, Exchange, Brokering or Sale of Weapons or Explosive Materials”, as defined Article 364 paragraph 2 in conjunction with Articles 1 and 31 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kosovo (CCRK) and “Unauthorized ownership, control or possession of weapons” as defined in Article 366 paragraph 1 of the CCRK.

At the request of the Prosecution, there is a grounded suspicion that defendants A.L., H.Z and M.K., from 17 October 2020 until 25.03.2021, in Ferizaj and in some cities of Kosovo,  have acted in co-perpetration importing pistols, automatic rifles, Zolja military weapons, hunting rifles as well as ammunition and other weapons equipment from the Republic of Macedonia, which have sold them in different places of Kosovo, acting in co-perpetration they have committed the criminal offense of “Unauthorized Import, Export, Supply, Transport, Production, Exchange, Brokering or Sale of Weapons or Explosive Materials” as defined in Article 336 par 1 of the CCRK.

Whereas, for the defendants A.L., H.Z., M.K. and E.I., there is a grounded suspicion that they possessed a weapon without authorization in violation of the law on weapons, in which case they committed the criminal offense “Unauthorized ownership, control or possession of weapons” as defined in Article 366 paragraph 2 of the CCRK.