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KPA upholds dismissal of prosecutor Çlirim Sino

KPA upholds dismissal of prosecutor Çlirim Sino

The Special Appeals Chamber, KPA, announced on Monday, June 23, the decision to uphold the dismissal of Fier prosecutor Çlirim Sino. The decision was made by the KPA panel, chaired by Albana Shtylla, with rapporteur Rezarta Schuetz and members Sokol Çomo, Ina Rama and Mimoza Tasi, after reviewing Sino's appeal against the Commission's decision.

Prosecutor Çlirim Sino was dismissed on July 6, 2022, by the Independent Qualification Commission, KPK, on ​​the grounds that he failed to justify the legal source of part of the assets owned by his family. Sino appealed the KPK's decision as unfounded and asked the College to reverse the dismissal decision and confirm it. The case was moved to a public hearing, in order to ask the subject several questions.

In conclusion, the College, after hearing Sinos' submissions to the KPK's financial analysis, assessed that the decision to dismiss him is based on facts and the law. During the announcement of the decision on Monday, Chairperson Shtylla stated, among other things, that the control of the financial analysis for 2015 minimally confirms the negative balance found by the Commission for covering expenses and creating the claimed savings.

Likewise, as in the Commission, the College confirms the lack of economic logic for the sale of three vehicles at a value much higher than the purchase, after their use ranging from four months to 14 years. According to the KPA, the subject's explanations that the value of the vehicles has increased as a result of services and maintenance on his part remain at a declarative level.

The KPA assesses that even after correcting the Commission's analysis, the subject and his family are unable to pay for a deposit of 43 thousand euros declared in the name of his wife. During the announcement of the decision, it was evidenced that the subject himself admitted the financial inability to pay for this property.

According to the Panel, the subject failed to convincingly explain the respective financial values ​​for which the private interests of the wife of the liquidity in the private accounts as an individual and those as a natural person, are continuously intertwined. The panel finds that Sino and his wife have treated these deposits as if they had personal assets of the household, while formally they have been named as the property of the natural person in the name of the wife. During the announcement of the decision, it was evidenced that the purchase of an apartment in Vlora was carried out entirely with funds from this deposit.

The Panel notes that the entity has shown a lack of transparency in explaining assets and income during the revaluation process, making it impossible to accurately identify the dividing line between these asset items.

For an apartment in Vlora, donated to the wife by her parents, the College also found that the persons involved in the creation of this property were financially unable to do so.

In some cases, the KPA found contradictory positions of the Commission in the reasoning and conduct of the analysis, while from the corrections made, it was estimated that in the best case scenario, a negative balance remains in three years in the total value of 1.6 million lek.

Together with other problems found in terms of inaccuracies in the statements, it was concluded that the principle of proportionality cannot be applied and consequently the dismissal decision for prosecutor Çlirim Sino was left in force. Reporter.al

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