The court hearing against Bedri Shabani and Muharrem Qerimi, who are accused of espionage, is being held today.
The court session is held at 09:30.
The Special Prosecution Office of the Republic of Kosovo (SPRK) on February 19, 2025 filed an indictment against Bedri Shabani and Muharrem Qerimi, charging them with having collected and sent information and documents to the Serbian BIA regarding the Kosovo Liberation Army, its superiors and members, the Police, the Kosovo Intelligence Agency and the Kosovo Police Inspectorate, as well as specific events and objects, including a massacre.
Through these actions, the SPRK says that the aim was to cause a widespread interethnic conflict in the territory of the Republic of Kosovo, to create a false narrative linking the KLA Military Hospital to alleged organ trafficking, and to question the truth of the massacre.
The indictment charges Muharrem and Qerim with espionage. Qerim is also accused of possessing weapons without a permit.
According to the indictment provided by the "Oath for Justice", in the first count, Bedri Shabani is accused of having assisted the Intelligence and Security Agency of the Republic of Serbia (known as BIA) from an unspecified date until his arrest on June 5, 2024, in the form of collecting and sending information, documents and materials related to the Kosovo Liberation Army, including its superiors, as well as specific events and objects such as the KLA Military Hospital.
The indictment states that Shabani had transmitted the data and information in question to the senior BIA official, SR, responsible for (redacted) and Colonel BJ, former commander of the Serbian Police (redacted), during the war in Kosovo and leader of the police-military operation in the massacre of (redacted) through telephone communications, e-mail and physical meetings held on the territory of Serbia.
Therefore, it is stated that with these actions the accused has seriously endangered and damaged the constitutional legal order and the security of the Republic of Kosovo, while also assisting the BIA in creating a false narrative in order to link the KLA Military Hospital (redacted) to alleged organ trafficking, as well as to question the truth of the massacre of (redacted), by requesting the BIA official and the BJ to undertake operational actions that would cause a widespread interethnic conflict in the territory of the Republic of Kosovo.
Therefore, for these actions, Bedri Shabani is charged with the criminal offense of "Espionage" under Article 124, paragraph 3 of the Criminal Code.
Whereas, in the second count of the indictment, Muharrem Qerimi is accused of having assisted the Intelligence and Security Agency of the Republic of Serbia (known as BIA) from 2012 onwards until his arrest on June 5, 2024, in the form of collecting and sending various information, documents and materials related to the war and members of the KLA, the names and superiors of the Kosovo Police, the KIA, the IPK, then the names of witnesses already known (redacted) in relation to criminal offenses of organized crime, corruption, which information he transmitted to the senior BIA official, SR, responsible for (redacted) through telephone communications and physical meetings he held in the territory of the Republic of Serbia.
With these actions, the accused Qerimi is said to have seriously endangered and damaged the constitutional legal order and the security of the Republic of Kosovo and its citizens.
Therefore, for these actions, Shabani is charged with the criminal offense of "Espionage" under Article 124, paragraph 3 of the Criminal Code.
Meanwhile, the third count of the indictment states that on June 5, 2024, during the implementation of the Court's order for a search warrant, the defendant was found in unauthorized possession of an "Ekol Tuna" type revolver, a magazine, six cartridges, twenty other cartridges with the inscription 11/53, as well as four other magazines with the crescent sign and a round, which were seized by the Kosovo Police.
With these actions, Qerim is charged with having committed the criminal offense of "Unauthorized ownership, control or possession of weapons" under Article 366, paragraph 1 of the Criminal Code. /Telegrafi/
