Today on 29.09.2025, at 13:00, the Special Appeals Chamber held the public hearing on the case (JR) 38/2023, dated 04.09.2023, pertaining to the appeal of the Public Commissioner filed against the decision of the Independent Qualification Commission no. 673, dated 15.06.2023, rendered for the assessee Mirela Zavalani.
The presiding judge of the trial panel announced that Article 179/b, paragraph 8 of the Constitution of the Republic of Albania has dictated the transfer of powers from the Public Commissioner to the Head of the Special Prosecution Office. Pursuant to Article 199, paragraph 2 of the Civil Procedure Code, the trial panel decided to transfer the procedural proceedings from the Public Commissioner to the Head of the Special Prosecution Office, represented in this case with special authorization by the prosecutor of the Special Prosecution Office, Mr. Adnan Xholi, who was present at the hearing.
During the submission of the appeal grounds on the asset assessment criterion, the representative of the Head of the Special Prosecution Office assessed that the declarations of the assessee, Mrs. Mirela Zavalani, are unclear and contradictory in relation to the acts in the file, making her declarations unreliable, inaccurate, and making it impossible to examine the lawfulness of the sources of her assets and those of the related persons. Mr. Adnan Xholi requested the Appeals Chamber to take into consideration the appeal grounds, demanding the opening of a judicial investigation for new evidence to be received during this process, in order to reach a fair conclusion on the case.
Further on, the assessee Mrs. Mirela Zavalani and her legal representative, provided detailed explanations for each of the appeal grounds and requested the Appeals Chamber to open the judicial investigation of the case, accepting as evidence the new acts attached to the submissions, for which they stated they clarify every unclear circumstance of the administrative investigation carried out by the Independent Qualification Commission, as well as convincingly supporting the standard of reliability of the assessee in her declarations.
Following the consultation, the trial panel decided to open the judicial investigation of the case, accepting as evidence the written acts specified by the assessee in the written submissions filed as well as in the inventory of evidence attached to these submissions.
After the parties declared that they had no other procedural requests, the trial panel decided to close the judicial investigation of the case and invited the parties to present their final conclusions at the subsequent hearing scheduled to be held on 16.10.2025, at 8:30 a.m.
The public hearing shall be held at the premises of the Special Appeals Chamber, at: Bulevardi “Dëshmorët e Kombit”, nr. 3, Tirana.