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According to the prosecution, a total of 106 reports were sent by the General Directorate of Taxes, of which 28 in 2021; for 2022, 43 criminal reports; in 2023, 26 criminal reports were filed and 9 criminal reports in 2024...
Edi Rama brought back the attacks and accusations against the Prosecutor's Office of Tirana today. He has been targeting this organ for months and today he brought it back to you. While SPAK has changed its course, today it anathematized and attacked the prosecutors of the Prosecutor's Office of Tirana, accusing them of sleeping on the files of tax evasion.
But it seems that something else is hidden behind the accusations, as the facts overturn Rama.
According to the Prime Minister, there are 80 cases of fiscal evasion that have been dormant for years in this prosecutor's office. He underlined that there are also denunciations by those who are otherwise called oligarchs, who have taken the institutions themselves to the prosecutor's office, for hundreds of millions of euros avoided from tax obligations.
Asked by BIRN about these statements of Prime Minister Rama, the head of the Prosecutor's Office of Tirana, Arens Çela, said that he could not comment. Meanwhile, based on a request for information, the prosecution made available the statistical data related to the reports received by the tax authorities and customs from 2021 onwards, as well as those for which the cases have been closed.
According to the prosecution, a total of 106 reports were sent by the General Directorate of Taxes, of which 28 in 2021; for 2022, 43 criminal reports; in 2023, 26 criminal reports were filed and 9 criminal reports in 2024. A total of four criminal reports have been referred by the General Directorate of Customs, one in 2021 and three in 2022.
According to "Birn", of these reports, a total of 50 cases have been concluded. In 2021, two cases were sent for trial and another was suspended; in 2022, 17 cases were concluded, of which seven were sent for trial, seven were dismissed, and for three of the referrals it was decided not to initiate criminal proceedings; during 2023, 30 cases were concluded, of which nine were sent for trial, 10 requests for leave, nine non-starts and in two cases incompetence was declared. According to the prosecution, some of the cases completed in 2022 and 2023 belong to referrals from previous years.
"Regarding the total number of completed cases, it turns out that 35% of them were sent to the Court with a request for trial, for the required period. This percentage is the same as the cases of other criminal offenses which have been sent for trial", the prosecution clarifies in response.
Asked for a comment regarding Prime Minister Rama's statements to the Prosecutor's Office of Tirana, the High Council of Prosecutors did not respond until the publication of this article.
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