Today, on 20.05.2021, at 10:00, the Appeal Chamber held the public hearing of case (JR) 22/2020, dated 26.06.2020, pertaining to the appeal of the Public Commissioner against decision no. 229, dated 28.01.2020, of the Independent Qualification Commission, related to the assessee Dritan Banushi.
The assessee and his lawyer filed additional objections related to the Public Commissioner’s financial analysis, claiming that this analysis was incomplete, erroneous, and failed to include or address any data presented in the assessee’s objections.
With regard to the new denunciation filed with the Chamber on the date of the previous hearing, on April 26, 2022, the assessee stated that it was a repeated denunciation, in connection to which the AC had reached its intermediate decision that “as regards the denunciations, there are no valid facts and circumstances for further investigations”.
Subsequently, the Public Commissioner and the assessee responded to some clarifying questions about the case, addressed by the Rapporteur Judge.
The Public Commissioner, attached to the response to the rapporteur’s question about the methodology used to prepare the financial analysis, filed with the trial panel a letter from the High Inspectorate of Declaration and Audit of Assets and Conflict of Interest (HIDAACI) on the methodology for calculating the living costs, which the trial panel decided to accept as evidence.
Once this evidence was made available to the assessee, his lawyer requested sufficient time to analyze the document and prepare the position with its regards.
Due to this reason, the trial panel decided to postpone the public hearing until May 27, 2022, at 09:00. During this hearing, the parties must also be prepared for the final conclusions of the case.
The public hearing will take place in the premises of the Appeal Chamber, at Boulevard “Dëshmorët e Kombit”, no. 3, Tirana.