The Appeal Chamber held today, on 18.03.2021, at 10:00, the public hearing on the case (JR) no. 55/2019, dated 29.10.2019, corresponding to the appeal of the Public Commissioner against decision no. 173, dated 01.07.2019, of the Independent Qualification Commission related to the assessee Artan Madani.

After the litigants stated that they had no prior requests, the presiding judge declared the opening of the hearing and of the judicial review.

While submitting the appeal grounds on the asset assessment criterion, the Public Commissioner stated that pursuant to Article 61, paragraph 3 and 5, of Law 84/2016, the assessee is found in the conditions of inaccurate and lack of full disclosure regarding his assets, thus, violating the public trust. The Public Commissioner requested the Appeal Chamber to review the appeal grounds, to amend decision no. 173, dated 01.07.2019, of the Independent Qualification Commission and to dismiss from office the assessee Artan Madani.

The assessee and his legal representative objected the appeal ground filed by the Public Commissioner and asked the Appeal Chamber to reopen the judicial investigation and to accept as evidence the new acts that they submitted in today’s hearing, attached to his submissions.

After withdrawing for consultation, the trial panel, pursuant to Article F, paragraph 3 of the Annex to the Constitution and Article 45 of Law 84/2016 “On the transitional re-evaluation of judges and prosecutors in the Republic of Albania”, decided to collect as evidence only a portion of the acts filed by the assessee in today’s hearing, as it deemed that the rest of the acts were not in the form as required by the law. These acts were given back to the assessee, giving him the opportunity to re-submit them in the form required by law in the following hearing that shall be held on 13.04.2021, at 10:00.

The public hearing shall be held at the premises of the Appeal Chamber, at:: Bulevardi “Dëshmorët e Kombit”, nr.3. Tiranë.