Indictment against former minister Rozeta Hajdari confirmed

One of the four defendants in this case is the former Minister of Industry, Entrepreneurship and Trade, Rozeta Hajdari, now a member of parliament. The decision was made by the Pristina Court of Appeals, after the defendants did not plead guilty in the previous hearing, which was held behind closed doors.

The first instance court has confirmed the indictment in the case known as "State Reserves", in which the former Minister of Industry, Entrepreneurship and Trade, Rozeta Hajdari, along with two officials of this ministry, are accused of abuse of official duty. 

In this case, in addition to Hajdar and Ministry officials Irfan Lipovica and Hafiz Gara, businessman Ridvan Muharremi is also accused of aiding and abetting the commission of the criminal offense. 

The confirmation of the indictment by the Basic Court in Pristina was made after the January 13 session, which was scheduled for the defendants to testify, which was held behind closed doors, in the name of protecting classified information and witness protection. In the closed session, the defendants did not testify, while their lawyers were instructed by the Court to object to the evidence and request the dismissal of the indictment. 

"The Basic Court of Pristina - Special Department, through Decision PS.nr.68/2025 dated 13.03.2026, has rejected as unfounded the requests for objection to evidence and dismissal of the indictment, submitted by the defendants' defense attorneys, filed against the indictment of the Special Prosecution of the Republic of Kosovo," the announcement of the Basic Court of Pristina states. 

Based on the indictment, Hajdari, Lipovica and Gara are suspected of having complicitly abused their official duties during February and March 2022, in order to create material gain for other persons, causing damage to the budget of approximately 3 million euros. The fourth defendant, Muharremi, is accused of having assisted in the commission of the criminal offense of abuse of position. 
The indictment states that the state budget was damaged by approximately 3 million euros as a result of the defendants' actions with quantities of oil, flour, and sugar that were not supplied to the state reserve. 

Based on the indictment, the Law on State Reserves provides for supply through an open procedure, but the defendants did so through a closed procedure.

In this case, raids were carried out at the Ministry of Industry, Entrepreneurship and Trade in 2023 after the publication of audio recordings, which claimed that a quantity of oil, purchased in Poland, and a quantity of wheat, purchased in Turkey, had never arrived.

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At the time, Hajdari stated that the purchases for state reserves were made in accordance with the law, but did not provide further details, as the information about them is a state secret.

Later, she accused the police of taking documents classified as state secrets as evidence during the raids.

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti - who has been invited by the Prosecution as a witness in this case, but has not yet gone to give evidence - has come to Hajdari's defense, saying that "there is no corruption or misuse."