The Independent Qualification Commission (KPK) has announced that Appeals Court judge Ilir Toska successfully passed his vetting, overlooking, thus, the negative assessment of his figure, and his suspicious payments in the 2005 purchase of an apartment in Tirana.
The KPK did not take into consideration the National Security Agency’s (DSIK) negative assessment regarding the integrity of his figure, even though the background check report is one of the three main components on which the KPK assessment must be based, as provided by art. dh(1) of the Constitutional Annex and art. 36(1) and (2) of the vetting law. This is the first time DSIK demands the dismissal of a judge or prosecutor since the vetting process started.
KPK did not take into account the six citizen complaints filed against judge Toska by V.C, I.M, A.C, H.A, H.V, and B.B.
Under these circumstances, according to the vetting law, this KPK ruling must be appealed by the Public Commissioner, whose duty it is to file a complaint at the Appeal Chamber, if there have been citizen complaints against a judge.
