During the first six months of this year, about 1,800 unsolved corruption cases by Courts and Prosecution

Prishtina, August 3, 2014 – Today, FOL Movement held a press conference and published the six month period statistics of Police, Prosecution and Courts within the Anti-Corruption Statistics Platform and also the decisions and actions of the Assembly and Government of Kosovo in the fight of corruption in Kosovo during this period.

Fidan Kalaja from FOL Movement said that during the first six months of 2014, Kosovo Police has dealt with 19 cases of corruption and taking bribes, filing criminal charges against six people and six other people have been arrested. For the offenses of corruption and bribery during the first six months of this year they have dealt with 30 cases, filing criminal charges against 10 people and six people have been arrested. Meanwhile, for the offenses of corruption, abuse of authority, Kosovo Police has handled 236 cases of corruption, filing criminal charges against 106 people and 34 people have been arrested.

He further said that Kosovo Prosecution during the first six months of 2014, for the offenses of corruption and taking bribes had ongoing cases implicating 53 people, only 13 of them have been solved, whereas at the end of the period were left unsolved 19 cases. For the offenses of corruption and giving bribes, the prosecution had ongoing cases implicating 55 people, 24 of these cases have been solved while 16 of them remained unsolved at the end of the first half of 2014. For the offenses of corruption and abuse of authority, the Prosecutor of Kosovo had ongoing cases implicating 1,244 people, only 372 of these cases have been solved while 1,065 cases remained unsolved during the first six months of 2014.

According to him, during the six month period of 2014, Kosovo Courts for criminal cases of corruption and bribe taking handled ongoing cases involving 171 people; only 20 of these cases have been solved, while 77 cases remained unsolved at the end of this period. For the offenses of corruption and giving bribe Kosovo Courts handled ongoing cases implicating 87 people, 8 of these cases have been solved while 44 of these cases remained unsolved at the end of the first half of 2014. For the offenses of abuse of authority,

Kosovo Courts handled ongoing cases implicating 619 people during the first six months of 2014, only 93 of these cases have been solved while 573 cases remain unsolved at the end of this period.
Fidan Kalaja also said that FOL Movement, except these three institutions involved in this platform during this six-month period, has monitored the decisions of Assembly and Government of Kosovo.

Kosovo Assembly from 15 plenary sessions held in the first six months of 2014, only one of them discussed the fight against corruption. While the Government in the first six months of 2014 from 169 approved decisions, only one was in the fight against corruption.
For more information on Anti-corruption Statistics Platform check the attached link http://www.levizjafol.org/plateforma-statistikave-anti-korrupsion/?message=true&FaqeID=1