Today, on 23.02.2024, at 10:00, the Appeal Chamber held 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.
The presiding judge informed the parties that the documents requested by the Chamber from the Prosecution office at Gjirokastra General Jurisdiction Court of First Instance have been forwarded and have been made available to the parties to be acquainted with. The trial panel decided to accept them as evidence.
The Public Commissioner submitted his findings regarding the documentation forwarded by the Prosecution office at Gjirokastra General Jurisdiction Court of First Instance, related to the case investigated by the assessee, in view of the denunciations part of the appeal. The Public Commissioner requested the Chamber, referring to the circumstances identified by him, to evaluate whether the assessee has undertaken full investigative actions, in the cases he handled in his capacity as prosecutor.
In order to support the claim that in each referred case the investigations have been complete, the assessee filed several documents, which he requested to be accepted as evidence by the court. The assessee requested reasonable time to file with the AC some additional documents in support of his claims.
Following some clarifications that the case rapporteur questioned the parties regarding their positions held during today’s hearing and after inviting the assessee to be clear in his request regarding the cases for which the Chamber has reopened the judicial investigation of the case, the panel decided to postpone the hearing on 04.03.2024, at 10:00, to provide the necessary time to the assessee to forward to the Chamber the alleged acts and, if he will assess them, to submit his written position.
The public hearing shall take place at the premises of the Appeal Chamber, at Boulevard “Dëshmorët e Kombit”, no. 3, Tirana