
The chairman of the parliamentary investigative committee for TIMS, Ervin Salianji, read today the declassified testimony of Ervin Muça, the former head of IT in the State Police, regarding the hacking of the entry-exit control system at the border crossing points.
Citing parts of the testimony, Salianji said that Muça accuses the senior leaders of the State Police of neglecting the reports that there was interference in TIMS and that the system was compromised. According to the democratic deputy, interventions in TIMS were made with the aim of erasing data and not registering persons with criminal records while crossing the border.
He further says that there are 5 passport numbers denounced by the former IT director which have passed without being registered.
"You want to burn the work deadlines and the investigation. You don't want an investigation to the end so that we don't produce a report to go to SPAK. We are telling the public that you are doing what you are doing. Let me ask you a question: Has the official arrived of the state here and I ask him, for what reason you were removed from this position. Answers Ardit Muça, I was appointed on the 16th. The testimonies are contradictory. This gentleman says that on the 26th I was called by Ervin Muça, he was presented to the office on June 19. While the documents were made on the 27th. Who is this person who becomes the director without receiving the appointment? you can't mess with me. Ervin Muça is still the director of the information technology department today, even though he is suspended. He says all the data is available online from 2022, the TIMS data is sold online.
The gentleman says I had an internal team in the directorate that was not capable of carrying out work processes, they are Ms. NX, AM and BV and the cyber crime sector. Do you want us to call these people to ask them about the accusation made against them? Do you want investigation or circus and defense? He says, for occult purposes, with actions and inactions, they hid the cybercrime that happened in 2021. The police and the Ministry of the Interior said there was no intervention, the director of the department says there was intervention. With memo no. 24 13, the director of the State Police is informed about the illegal actions by interfering and manipulating the systems, I informed the director of the police that he intervened by manipulating the systems. I'm legal, you dance as much as you want. In the State Police, they think they have the job, says the gentleman.
In the memo addressed to the General Director that the systems do not work in November 2022, I informed him that they do not deliver the codes, he says, which in the vernacular is the basis of the entire system, and on the 20th I sent another memo for unauthorized intervention in the e-gate system where 5 passport numbers were read for personal favors, avoiding control during the border crossing as wanted persons... The wanted persons are avoided because high state leaders have been caught. The inspector passes it there and the system does not register you. That's why you want to close the investigation today. Avoiding border control. This procedure could also have been used for other people with criminal records to pass the TIMS system, you destroyed the system, that's why you don't want a report today, you kept the records secret until today," said Salianji.
The investigative work of the TIMS parliamentary commission ends on Tuesday, when the final report is expected to be presented, which will be sent to the Assembly of Albania in plenary session. The opposition requested the extension of the investigations by another 60 days, but the majority overthrew the proposal by a majority of votes, considering the investigation work of TIMS closed.
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