The Appeals Chamber held on 04.07.2025, at 10:00, the public hearing of case (JR) 7/2023, dated 14.02.2023, pertaining to the appeal of the Public Commissioner against decision no. 605, dated 21.12.2022 of the Independent Qualification Commission, for the assessee Armida Hamiti (Moçka).

The Head of the Special Prosecution Office, Mr. Altin Dumani, stated during the submission of the appeal grounds, that the assessee, Ms. Armida Hamiti (Moçka), failed to prove the opposite of the burden of proof and that, contrary to the reasoning of the decision of the Independent Qualification Commission, the financial insufficiency of her and the persons related to her amounts to that extent that the principles of proportionality and objectivity cannot be applied. Mr. Dumani requested the amendment of decision no. 605, dated 21.12.2022 of the Independent Qualification Commission and the dismissal from office of the assessee.

Disputing the appeal grounds, the assessee held that the appeal is unfounded in law, contains logical and factual inconsistencies and it is supported on formalistic and partial interpretations of the evidence. The assessee requested the reopening of the judicial investigation of the case and the admission as evidence of several new acts, which she filed in support of her claims. Ms. Hamiti also requested the dismissal of the Public Commissioner’s appeal as unfounded in law and evidence and the upholding of decision no. 605, dated 21.12.2022 of the Independent Qualification Commission that confirmed her in office.

Following several clarifications that the case rapporteur requested from the assessee with respect to the formal aspect of the lodged documentation, the Head of the Special Prosecution Office stated that apart from the three acts that fail to meet the legal criteria in terms of their form, the others should be accepted as evidence, as they would serve to the objective examination of the case.

Once the Head of the Special Prosecution Office addressed several questions to the assessee to the purpose of the examination of the case, the trial panel decided to reopen the judicial investigation, accepting as evidence the acts lodged by the assessee, except for the acts that turned out not to be in the form required by law.

Given that the parties stated that they had no procedural requests, the trial panel decided to close the judicial investigation and invited them to submit their final conclusions. In order to give the parties a necessary time to prepare their final conclusions, the hearing was postponed to 11.07.2025, at 09:00.

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