While the hearing is today at the GJKKO, Laert Haxhiu, the strongman of Lushnja, has refused to face Artan Tafan, who is now a fugitive from justice, in the courtroom.
Once a soldier of his gang, Tafani appeared today in the Criminal Court of Kosovo, in the capacity of a witness.

He explained to the black platoons his acquaintance with the Lushnja fort and some of the crimes he committed on Haxhiu's orders.

"I met Laerti through a guy from Lushnja. We met in Dajt through Lulzim Arapi, he introduced me. Laerti told me 'what can you do', after he had received information that I had committed a robbery by force. The first time he gave me 1 thousand euros. Laerti asked me to put a quantity of TNT in an apartment in Lushnja, owned by Erjon Çoku. For this event, I met Laerti and he told me what I should do. I had the TNT, Sajmir Krasniqi had given it to me. Laerti gave me 100 euros as pocket money. From Korça I went directly to Lushnja and from 2-3 o'clock in the morning I go and get the TNT and come back home. At that time I was talking to Laerti and I told him what I did. Erjon Çoku was a person who sold heroin and I knew that I was a user. He had taken the goods from Laerti and had not given it to him. "Leks. Besnik Çoku is Erjon's brother, he was living abroad. It was the first time I did such a thing," Tafani is reported to have said.