TIRANA, July 15 /ATA/ Prosecutor General Olsian Çela presented on Monday in the Assembly the annual report “On the state of criminality for 2023”.
Çela stated that there is a decrease in reports by 9.3%, adding that there is a decrease in reports related to domestic violence and an increase in reports related to criminal offenses in the field of narcotics.
According to him, “criminal offenses against public order and security constitute the highest number of registered criminal proceedings with 31.71%, but with a decrease of 1.54% compared to 2022”.
“Criminal offenses of property theft constitute 23.64% of the total number of registered proceedings, which have decreased by 16.39% compared to 2022. An increasing trend has been observed for criminal offenses against the legal regime of land, 12.86% ; criminal offenses against secrecy and state borders, 9.20%; criminal offenses in the cyber field, 22.35%; criminal offenses of illegal trafficking”, 47.59%; criminal offenses against the production and cultivation of narcotics”, 13.81%”, added Çela.
For criminal acts of corruption, Çela emphasized that 170 proceedings with 123 defendants were registered and 140 proceedings with 151 defendants were sent for trial.
According to the prosecutor general, the investigations uncovered 6 cases of active corruption in the elections.
“Out of 44 criminal proceedings transferred from the prosecutions of general jurisdiction and accepted by the Special Prosecutor’s Office, 32 criminal proceedings have been registered for offenses related to corruption at top levels or criminal offenses related to office”, continued Çela.
Also, Çela emphasized that “referring to the statistical data for the criminal offense “Domestic violence”, for the year 2023, 1,396 criminal proceedings were registered, with 1,078 defendants, or a 3.92% decrease in proceedings and a decrease of 11.35 % in registered defendants compared to 2022.
Çela said that one of the major concerns remains the vacancies in the system, which have been created by Vetting, which have reached up to 38% of prosecutors.
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