The Appeal Chamber held today, on 02.02.2024, at 11:00, the public hearing of case (JR) 72/2021, dated 23.11.2021, pertaining to the appeal of the Public Commissioner against decision no. 442, dated 14.09.2021, of the Independent Qualification Commission, related to the assessee Juljan Çafka.

Following the interim decision of the previous hearing, the Public Commissioner submitted his position with regard to the three denunciations filed with the Chamber.

The Public Commissioner maintained that the content of two out of the three denunciations was part of the denunciation dated 01.11.2021 by the same declarant, reviewed by the Public Commissioner, and that they are not part of his appeal. The Public Commissioner referred that the content of the third denunciation was also addressed during the IQC administrative investigation, and the latter decided to transfer the case to the competent body for inspection of any potential disciplinary misconduct. This case was also referred to in the appeal dated 11.11.2021 of the Public Commissioner, to be considered into overall assessment, in view of other possible findings from the review of the case by the AC.

The assessee held that the denunciations do not contain facts and have no probative value, and in support of his claims, he filed some documents that he requested the Chamber to administer them as evidence.

After being consulted, the trial panel decided to accept as evidence the documentation filed by the assessee during today’s hearing, as well as not to continue the investigations for two of the three denunciations received by the Chamber on 22.01.2024, as they do not contain facts or circumstances that meet the criteria of Article 53 of Law 84/2016 “On the transitional re-evaluation of judges and prosecutors in the Republic of Albania”.

With respect to the third denunciation, the trial panel decided to request new additional documents from the Prosecution Office at Gjirokastra Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction.

The presiding judge announced that on the hearing day the Chamber has received another denunciation, submitted before, and that the issues dealt with therein had already become part of the judicial investigation.

Pending the acts from the Prosecution Office at Gjirokastra Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction, the trial panel decided to adjourn the hearing to 23.02.2024, at 10:00.

The public hearing shall take place at the premises of the Appeal Chamber, at Boulevard “Dëshmorët e Kombit”, no. 3, Tirana.