Hajdari on "state reserves": I feel innocent, it is a biased process

Acting Minister of Industry, Entrepreneurship and Trade, Rozeta Hajdari, who is accused of the state reserves issue, has said that she feels completely innocent. She has described the process against her as biased.

"I feel completely innocent because it is a biased process that violates every legal procedure, being in violation of the law on state reserves and the law on the protection of classified information, has initiated this indictment against me," she said after the initial hearing.

She even insists that they acted correctly with the issue of state reserves, but says that the violations are being committed by the Special Prosecution Office. 

"The most important thing I want to emphasize is that the citizens of Kosovo do not need to worry about consolidating the state reserve that we have increased in the Kurti 2 Government, many times over in the most difficult time when the state reserve was unconsolidated and not in function of responding to citizens. At a time when the borders were closed with the outbreak of war in Ukraine and in the most difficult time, when there were no exports of basic products in our country. So, basic products, vital for the livelihood of our citizens. In this difficult time we secured and consolidated the state reserve. How important it is to mention that for this process that is extremely important for our citizens, for the security of our people, the prosecution nevertheless violated the law, as I have emphasized earlier despite the fact that we have had and are in legal proceedings with operators who have not fulfilled their obligations and there is an open legal process with these operators. The Special Prosecution is completely ignoring the law, and is continuing without respecting the procedures of the law on state reserves and information classified," she added.

She further insisted that they would prove that the actions taken against her were illegal.

Mahmut Halimi, the lawyer for the other defendant in this case, Ridvan Muharremi, said that during the proceedings "an unprecedented situation in judicial practice in Kosovo" occurred.

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He stated that the court forced the defense attorneys to file objections to the indictment without having the case files available, calling this a "nonsense" case.

"Today something happened that is never known in judicial practice in the courts of Kosovo, the court forced us to file an objection against the indictment without case files, it is a nonsensical case. Regarding other issues, I had asked for your understanding. We have no way of declaring ourselves without having the case files. How can we declare ourselves guilty when there are no case files," he said.