The Prosecutor’s Office of Tirana has started the criminal proceedings against the judge Arnisa Kelliçi, for the false report after her claims that she was threatened with life arnisa-kellici-1
Announcement of the Tirana Prosecutor’s Office:
The Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction, Tirana, has registered the Criminal Proceeding, no. 552 of 2024, for the criminal offense of “Intimidation of a Judge” provided by Article 317 of the Criminal Code, with Judge A. K.
On 20.01.2024 at 23:10, at Police Station No. 3, Tirana, Judge A. K., who exercises her function at the Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction, Tirana, appeared and filed a criminal complaint, criminal chamber .
The judge claimed that in her office, which is located on the third floor, office no. 321, she found that she received a letter by mail, with the text, “Dear Judge A…, you have two children, D…… and R…….. Think about them that you can live and not them and that is heavy. With respect!”.
Among other things, the complainant explained that on 20.01.2024 at around 11:00, she went to the office after there was a court session, with the purpose of canceling the security measure. The moment she entered her office, on her desk above the files, she found an envelope and inside it was the letter quoted above, which after reading it, she put it in the safe. There is no other information or suspicions about this letter, but she felt scared because her children’s names were used.
As a function of the preliminary investigations, as far as it has been reported, intensive investigations were carried out by the prosecution body with the aim of securing urgent evidence, such as the administration of film footage near the court, the questioning of persons, the taking of free and experimental models, examination and seizures at the institutions as well as the performance of expertise and in the end the conclusion was reached, referring to the circumstances and the act of graphic expertise, that the letter object of the investigation was written by the citizen complainant A. K.
In these conditions, the prosecutor’s office has estimated that there is evidence that creates reasonable doubt to attribute to this citizen the criminal offense of “False reporting” provided by article 305 of the Criminal Code, proceeding with the receipt as defendant for this criminal offense.
Also, within the framework of the investigations of this criminal proceeding, the request for protection dated 20.01.2024, sent by judge A. K, was administered to the High Judicial Council, setting in motion this institution, which on 22.01.2024 , has decided the physical custody of magistrate A. K. and her family, for a period of 3 months.
