Today the Independent Qualification Commission (KPK) dismissed Prosecutor Ramadan Troci and Judge Alma Liçaj on grounds of not justifying and hiding their assets.
The ruling on Prosecutor Troci was made by the judicial body headed by Pamela Qirko, with Genta Tafa Bungo and Suela Zhegu as members. The ruling on Judge Liçaj was made by the judicial body headed by Olsi Komici, with Xhensila Pine as speaker and Lulzim Hamitaj as a member.
Both Ramadan Troci and Alma Liçaj were present during the hearings.
Prosecutor Troci’s background and figure assessment was deemed clean but he did not justify his wealth. In its financial analysis of Troci’s assets declarations, the KPK found lack of legal sources for his income in years 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012 and 2013. Troci had made irregular declarations on his wealth and had kept hidden a house in Paskuqan.
Regarding Troci’s professional background, there were 10 denunciations made by citizens, eight of which were cases investigated between 2006 and 2011. These cases were related to injuries and deaths in the Bulqiza mines.
Ramadan Troci was a candidate to the High Judicial Council (KLGJ). Prosecutor Troci started his carrier in the year 2000, and for 10 years he worked as a prosecutor in Bulqiza and Dibra cities. In 2012 Troci was transferred to the Tirana Prosecution, then to the Vlora Prosecution in 2014, and finally to the General Prosecution in 2016. He was the prosecutor in the cases against the former Governor of the Bank of Albania, Ardian Fullani, and former Mayor of Vlora, Shpëtim Gjika.
The Head of the Appeal Court of Vlora, Alma Liçaj was dismisses on the same grounds of not justifying and hiding her wealth.
The KPK’s investigation found that Judge Liçaj and her husband did not have enough legal financial sources to justify the purchase of their six apartments – four in Vlora and two in Tirana – and a garage. Judge Liçaj had declared that a part of her assets were donations from her brother-in-law, and that she had borrowed money form three other individuals, without any legal documents that would verify her claims. The amounts borrowed were 30 thousand, 60 thousand, 70 thousand and 12 thousand Euros. In 2016, her brother-in-law had donated her family two apartments and a garage in Vlora.
Alma Liçaj was the judge in the case of the former Mayor of Vlora, Shpëtim Gjika, on which she ruled yesterday. Judge Liçaj found Mr. Gjika not guilty.
