The Prosecutor of the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office, Joshua Hafetz, in his opening statements in the Thaci 2 trial, presented a torn letter found at the home of Isni Kilaj on November 2, 2023, which was linked to Thaci’s request to Kilaj to have Witness Four change his statement.
Prosecutor Joshua Hafetz said that section six, page seven contained the request for the fourth witness to change his testimony.
“Section six, page seven up to the specific line. I believe you can clearly hear the sound of the paper we just listened to, and it states that Witness Four must change his testimony, and in the final part Thaçi made very clear what message he intended to convey,” Hafetz said.
Hafetz stated that during an authorized search of Kilaj’s residence in Kosovo, the Prosecution seized torn pieces of paper from a trash bag left at the entrance of the apartment.
Forensic experts reconstructed the torn pieces, showing that it was the same section that Thaci had said the witness needed to change.
“If we refer to the date November 2, 2023, less than a month after Kryeziu and Kilaj met with Thaçi, the SPO conducted a court-authorized search at Kilaj’s residence in Kosovo. During this search, the SPO seized torn pieces of paper from a trash bag that had been left at the entrance of Kilaj’s apartment. Forensic experts reconstructed those torn pieces of paper, and the results show that Kilaj had torn up and thrown into the trash not random scraps of paper, but torn pages of two prior confidential statements of Witness Four. One of the torn pages bears the SPO’s material evidence number P3, specifically section six, page seven of the witness’s prior statement. The portion of the document found at Kilaj’s residence is the same section that Thaci said the witness needed to change,” Hafetz said.
