Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Criminal Prosecution for the maritime border agreement
 
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Criminal Prosecution for the maritime border agreement
“The Prosecutor General has all the respective documentation and the Constitutional Court verdict on his hand, together with the international practice, which has been violated by the Court”, declared Ditmir Bushat one day ago.

“The Tirana Prosecution has strong suspicions that the interests of Albania have been violated through the maritime border agreement. For this reason, a criminal lawsuit has been filed, some days after the Prosecution filed a voluminous material for the most debated case of 2009. The Prosecutors verified this case for some time, until they were convinced that the material of the Foreign Ministry has enough data to make them suspect that the criminal code has been violated”.

11 experts involved in the maritime border agreement of 2009 are expected to testify at the Tirana Prosecution.

“We have verified the documentation, the most important of which is the verdict of the Constitutional Court, which cancelled in January 26th, 2010, the implementation of this agreement by considering it anti-constitutional and against the national interests”, the Prosecutors say.

Among the experts that will be called for questionings are specialists who served as negotiators. The main negotiator of the Albanian side, Ferit Hoxha; Rear Admiral, Kristaq Gerveni, then Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces; the former General Secretary of the Foreign Ministry, Gazmend Turdiu; Director of legal and international cases, Ilir Tepelena; the Director of Tractates, Ledia Hysi, and photogrametry specialists like Ferdinand Bebreri and Anduel Cauli, from the Digital Map Sector.

The Prosecutors have not confirmed if the former Foreign Minister, Lulzim Basha, will be called for testifying as the man who signed the agreement with the Greek counterpart, Dora Bakojanis. According to the sources, it is still early to confirm this without the interrogation of the 11 experts.

The consumption of the criminal act foresees that the agreements made with foreign countries to hand over the territory are punished with five to ten years in prison.

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