At the earlier hearings, the defense and the prosecutors could not agree on the length of Oruqi’s sentence, because defense attorney Mirza Kovač asked for a sentence less than five years in prison, which the prosecutor Oleg Čavka had refused.
The panel of judges will mete out a sentence on June 14.
At a late April’s hearing Oruqi pleaded not guilty for drug trafficking even though he admitted to the crime during the prosecution. His attorney said that he did not plead not guilty because this would lead to a longer sentence.
At today’s hearing, the BiH Prosecutor’s Office admitted evidence while the defendant’s defense presented its closing arguments and said that Oruqi had cooperated with the prosecutors all along and that he did not have a criminal record.
At the earlier hearings, Kovač said that Oruqi’s family will be forced to emigrate from Kosovo after Oruqi revealed the name of the person who signed him up. Kovač said that Oruqi’s uncle was killed in a bomb attack in Peć after his client pleaded guilty.
Officers of the State Investigation and Protection Agency arrested Oruqi in a Sarajevo suburb of Ilidža on Feb 2. The police found drugs in his car that he had picked up in Montenegro and smuggled from Serbia, according to the indictment.
The defendant told the Prosecutor’s Office that he smuggled the drugs into BiH through a border crossing near Višegrad. He proceeded to Sarajevo where he was to deliver the drugs to an unknown person and receive €5,000. He was arrested before the drug changed hands.
Oruqi said he felt remorse for the crime he committed at the Court. He said he was blackmailed and was left with no choice fearing for life of his wife and children.
“I wish I could turn back the clock, to make it right, but I had no choice,” said the defendant.
Forty-years old Oruqi resides in Priština. He is a manager by profession. He is the owner of a Kosovo fashion agency “Model Agency” which hired also BiH models.
