Skopje, 5 September 2024 (MIA) - At an emergency session Thursday, the Judicial Council assessed and unanimously adopted a working group report in relation to the extradition detention of former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) member Blerim Ramadani, and the plea bargains reached with former Supreme Court judge Nakje Georgiev and the member of the Council of Public Prosecutors Ixhet Memeti.

Regarding Ramadani’s detention, the report concluded that the order placing Ramadani in house arrest was made without providing reasons different from the ones when he was placed in extradition detention in a Skopje jail.

In terms of the plea bargains reached with Nakje Georgiev and Ixhet Memeti, the report said "reasons were not given for the circumstance".

At a session in August, the Judicial Council established a committee tasked with investigating the decisions made by the Basic Criminal Court in Skopje in relation to the case of Blerim Ramadani, who escaped from house arrest.

Ramadani, who is from Kosovo, was arrested on July 17 at the Kosovo-Macedonian border after an Interpol warrant was issued on Serbia’s request. Afterwards he was placed in 30-day extradition detention in a Skopje jail. On August 1, a judge at the Basic Criminal Court in Skopje ordered Ramadani’s detention to be replaced with house arrest valid until August 16. Ramadani’s arrest warrant is based on Serbia’s claims that reportedly Ramadani as former KLA member had committed war crimes in the region of Nerodime.

The other case in the report refers to the plea deals reached by the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office for Prosecuting Organized Crime and Corruption with Supreme Court Judge Nakje Georgiev, and Council of Public Prosecutors member, Ixhet Memeti, for the crime of “accepting a reward for unlawful influence”. 

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