The director of IT in the State Police, Ervin Muça, was arrested a day ago after being accused of copying TIMS system data without authorization. He was placed under house arrest and suspended from office.
After downloading the unauthorized data using a female employee's PIN, Muça transferred it to his computer. Before the investigators in the preliminary statements, Muca denied committing the criminal offense for which he is accused, "Unauthorized access to computer data".
Although he denies the accusation, the investigators have in their hands video footage that captured Ervin Muça on the day he intervened in the TIMS system, August 2, 2023.
Ervin Muça claims that he was not in the office on Mine Peza street near police station no. 3, but sources indicate that he was filmed by the cameras of businesses around. Meanwhile, the guard also stated that Muça was in the office the day the TIMS system was hacked.
A few days ago, a parliamentary investigative commission was set up on this event, which will investigate the leakage of data from the TIMS system.
It is learned that the report of the Police Surveillance Agency last year was made to the justice bodies after the insistence of the American representation in Albania, who also discovered the intervention in the TIMS data system.
Muça was recruited into the police when the Ministry of the Interior was headed by Bledi Çuçi. The prosecution also notes that in the application documents for the position of IT Director in the State Police, Ervin Muça did not declare that he worked as an external advisor to the Director of the State Cadastre Agency, thus violating the law.
On August 17, 2023, the US chargé d'affaires in Tirana H. Martin McDowell met with the Minister of the Interior Taulant Balla where he expressed concern about the reported interventions in the TIMS system in the State Police and urged a quick and thorough investigation. versatile. Meanwhile, the investigations started in September 2023./report.tv