TIRANA, May 27/ATA/ -The Temporary General Prosecutor Arta Marku stated today that, “During 2018, there were completed 30615 cases, 38.5 % of which were forwarded to court, 21.7 % were closed, 35.6 % were suspended and 4.2 % were transferred to the competent prosecution offices.
During presentation of the annual Report on the Crime Situation in 2018 at the meeting of the joint Parliamentary Committee of Law and Security, Marku said, “In 2018, 118019 were forwarded to the court with a charge against 13414 defendants. If compared with 2017, there is 2.59 % increase of the cases forwarded to court and 4.65 % of the number of defendants taken to court”, said Marku.
Speaking about the court rulings, in 2018 were sentenced 10246 defendants while 211 defendants were declared innocent.
Speaking about the vetting, Marku stated that, “The Working Group in the General Prosecutor’s Office has submitted to the Independent Qualification Commission a total of 83 professional assessment reports of prosecuting / steering transitional re-evaluating subjects. Currently, 19 prosecutors have been transferred and confirmed in the process of re-evaluation, while 21 prosecutors have been fired from office, 15 prosecutors of which are suspended waiting a consideration of their appeal at the Special Appellate College.
In this context, Marku emphasized, “The dismissal of about 50% of prosecutors in the transition re-evaluation process institutionally obliges us, in the framework of cooperation with the High Prosecutional Office and the School of Magistrates, to take appropriate measures to plan their replacement in time with magistrates / prosecutors under the law, with the aim of avoiding the progressive absence of prosecutors in all three levels at the courts of general jurisdiction.”
Marku reiterated that, “The fight against organized crime, the fight against economic and financial crime, money laundering, terrorism, cultivation and trafficking of cannabis has been and remains a priority of our work in cooperation with other law enforcement agencies, in particular for identifying, investigating and hacking criminal networks behind them. ”
In regard to fight against corruption, Marku said, “If compared with 2017, in 2018 there is an increase in the number of registered proceedings on the criminal offense of “Passive corruption of persons exercising public functions “./a.g/p.s./
