By Boldnews.al
The structure of the “Force of Law” in the Tirana prosecution was dismantled, only a year after the Interim Chief Prosecutor, Arta Marku, and former Interior Minister Fatmir Xhafaj signed an agreement to set up special units focused on combating organized crime and corruption.
The “Force of Law” was created with great propaganda, but its results were almost non-existent. For this reason, Tirana’s Chief Prosecutor, Elisabeta Imeraj, has decided to merge and create a structure that has existed before, the anti-corruption, abuse of office and cybercrime sector.
Under this amendment, the former “Force of Law” will now be incorporated into the new structure, which will have a higher number of prosecutors. The head of the new section has not been named yet, but sources from the Tirana Prosecutor’s Office tell Boldnews.al that the name of prosecutor Ndini Tavani is expected to be formalized.
The “Force of Law” is a structure originally set up by the Minister of Interior, Fatmir Xhafaj, in November 2017. About 3 months later, in February 2018, Xhafaj urged the Interim Chief Prosecutor, Arta Marku, to sign an agreement , on the basis of which the institution of the Charge established special units in the principal districts of the country.
The “force of law”, according to public statements, always had the support of internationals. At the inauguration ceremony, two US FBI officials were also present at the inauguration ceremony, who, according to Jafaj, would assist the Albanian police.
But these two FBI experts, apart from appearing at the inaugural meeting, no longer appeared in Albania. They were officers of the US Federal Reserve’s regional office in Romania, which expired in March 2018. Since then, the “Rule of Law” has not been assisted, at least publicly, by FBI agents.
It is not clear why the FBI’s support, according to Jafaji’s statements at the time, is no longer present in the “Rule of Law” structure. But the lack of international support is evident in the scant results of this structure in the fight against organized crime and corruption.
The “force of law” apparently did not bring anything new to the investigative aspect of the Prosecution and, for this reason, the head of the institution of the Capital Prosecution has decided to expand the facility of the unit to increase the efficiency of prosecutors.
The Chief of the Prosecution Office of Tirana has also made some new changes to its support staff. Imeraj has decided to change almost all the section chiefs. Based on these changes, the new section heads are: Elsa Miha in the section on “Theft”, Kole Hysenaj on “Anti-trafficking”, Ledina Rizo on the section “Executions of criminal decisions”, Ervin Karanxha on crimes committed by juveniles and Kreshnik Ajazi in the section on crimes against property.
The new section chiefs were joined by Deputy Managers Marjeta Zaimi and Genc Qana, who held these positions at the time when the Prosecutor General’s Office was headed by Ina Rama and were reinstated after Arta Marku took office.
