Pal Gruda continued to testify in the trial of 14 people accused of usury and other serious criminal offenses.
Gruda said that under pressure from Asdolen Mekazi, he asked Benson Bouza to pay him 20 euros over a two-month period. The latter found it, but on the condition that he would pay 3,000 euros for every month of delay. Witnesses said that in some cases the delays resulted in interest payments of up to 500 euros per day.
To pay off her debts, Pal Gurda said she was forced to withdraw money from her family's jewelry store.
In addition to paying more than €40 for a €20 debt, Gruda said he was also asked to pay €60 to be left alone.
Pal Gruda, a victim in the ongoing case in Prizren court, said Benson also threatened him with a weapon.
After this situation, he said he met with Kastriot Kikila and was told that he would personally deal with repaying his debt to Benson.
As a friend, Kastrioti gave an additional 15 euros to help the injured, but later requested it because he had received it from his aunt Tuna.
Gruda said he returned the 15 euros to Kastriot two weeks later, and then received 4 euros a month in interest.
Pal Gruda said he had paid Kastriot 4 euros in interest for eight consecutive months, and that in some cases he had paid between 4,000 and 500 euros in interest per day due to delays.
“Kastrioti received money and money from me, the total amount of which was between 47,000 and 50,000 euros,” he said in his testimony.
After receiving the money, Gruda said he was forced to take Kastrioti's Golf 6 car and give it to Brim Shala, who then demanded 15,000 euros.
He left the “Golf'' as security for the purchase of two cars: a “Mercedes'' worth 50 euros and an “Audi'' worth 24 euros, leaving Brim Shala with a further 59 euros in debt. Ta.
Kastriot Kikira took away the two cars he had purchased, but the debt remained with Paul.
Pal Gruda said that her parent, Zefi, had an obligation to pay the debt to Brim Shala and that she had prepared a document about the debt, which was also submitted as evidence to the prosecution.
This witness said that after paying this debt, Kastriot Kikila asked the Gruda family for 200 euros to wash away all debts and problems, but his father decided to pay out of fear.
“My father took this money and paid it… an amount of 200,000 euros,” Pal Gruda said in testimony via video link.
After paying the 200 euros, Pal Gruda received a call for coffee from Kastriot Kikila, who told him that while he was waiting for Pal's debt, he had borrowed money with his uncle Tuna. He said he was asked for 550 euros. room.
At this meeting, he said that Tun Kikila also came during that time. Witnesses said Maguro “washed the walls and then came to the bar to see what was going on. He had just opened the package and emptied all the money that was in there.” “It was,” he said.
Due to the deterioration of the situation, Pal Gruda said that he and his father took the priest Don Shani to the village of Selbica, where they met with the head of the Kukiraj family, Mr. Dzerzin, but even after this meeting, Pal Gruda He said: The situation did not calm down.
After the meeting, Marjane Kikira said she met with her parent, Zefin, and told him, “If a police officer steps on my yard, I owe you everything.''
The victim said he did not leave his home for three months because he had been receiving threats.
During their last meeting at the church, the Kukirajs reportedly threatened: “We will kill you all, while we leave Paul alone to drive the flies from their graves.”
“We like this group a lot. I'm mentally damaged and I'm not feeling well. We're also in serious danger from some of the members outside. These You must have seen in Prizren what is happening to the witnesses testifying to the incident,'' Pal Gruda said in his testimony, which began in December.
After receiving testimony from the victims, the defense finally proposed to the court that the defendants be released from custody, claiming that the conditions for continued detention had ended, but this proposal was firmly opposed by prosecutor Melita Binay-Rugova.
The review committee announced that it will issue a written decision on this proposal for the time being.
The next hearing in this case will be held on January 27th.
According to the Special Prosecutor's Office, over the past several years, defendants Tune, Kastriot, Kyung, Marjan, Jexon, Gezim Kikira and Benson Buza have been operating as an organized criminal group with the aim of directly benefiting from financial gain. , committed a serious criminal offense. .
According to the indictment, Choune Kikila supervised and directed the activities of this criminal group.
The group took advantage of the poor financial situation and inexperience of the injured and gave them money at usurious interest. They then use severe threats to force payments of clearly disproportionate interest rates or other actions that damage property.
Those accused in the case are Tune, Kastriot, Gyon, Marjan, Jexon, Gezim Kikira, Benson Buza, Bestfort Omaji, Jirafteh Fukori, Ragip Fazliya, Ekrem Reshi, Hiru Katinari, Seideh. Kakorradi, Zef Orosi.
KALLXO.com also reports on past sessions of this process. You can find the report at this link.
In September of this year, the program “Justice in Kosovo” dealt with the usury case in Mitrovica.
Two brothers, Murat Mehana and Petrit Mehana, committed suicide in 2011 due to loan sharking. /KALLXO.com/
