Acta Universitatis Danubius. Juridica, Vol 13, No 2 (2017)

Abstract

Fighting corruption in Kosovo continues to be one of the major challenges for the country. The purpose of this paper is to find out the number of the cases addressed and analyse the sactions against official corruption and other offences against official duty, which were delivered by Municipality Courts in Kosovo during the period 2008-2015. All data presented in this article are taken from the Kosovo Statistical Office and include statistical information on the types and frequency of criminal sanctions to perpetrators of the official corruption and other offences against official duty. Case study is also applied to analyse the court judgments on the cases of the official corruption and other offences against official duty. Although there is a slight incresase of the number of convicted perpetrators in the recent years, the study shows that the numbercorruption cases addressed by the courts remains verylimited compared to the alleged level of corruption. Most of the delivered punishments are low sentences, which implies that the courts not always used their possibility to deliver the relevant decisions against the official corruption and other acts against official duty to enable the creation of the sustainable basis for Kosovo to prevent and fight corruption.