Once most wanted fugitive returns in Kosovo to help ‘develop the country’

Former mayor of Kacanik, Xhabir Zharku, who was sentenced in 2011 to three years in prison for extortion and the illegal possession of weapon, has returned home last week as free man after six years on the run. Upon his return to his hometown after the statute of limitations has expired, Zharku said that he returned home to help “develop the country”.

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