NOTICE
They falsified documents to justify the illegal source of assets derived from criminal activity, at the request of the Fier Prosecutor's Office, former notary LE and citizen FA are sentenced
The Prosecutor's Office at the Court of First Instance of Fier General Jurisdiction demanded a 12-month prison sentence for the former notary EL, and the citizen FA accused of committing the criminal offense of 'Forgery of documents' carried out in collaboration, provided for by Article 186, paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code.
In the framework of the investigations initiated by the former Prosecutor's Office at the Court of First Instance of the Lushnjë General Jurisdiction on criminal proceedings no. 388, of 2022, with the defendant, citizens LE and FA, it was proven that the defendant FA, in cooperation with the defendant LE, a former notary, falsified the notarial statement, which the defendant FA used in the Prosecutor's Office, to justify the source of the creation of his assets, seized as part of the investigations of the property proceeding no. 3 of 2021, of the former Prosecutor's Office at the Court of First Instance of the Lushnjë General Jurisdiction.
The notarial statement drawn up by the defendant LE, was falsified in its content, but bore the latter's signature. It was proven that, with the same date, directory number and collection that this notarial statement held, in the register of the former notary LE and in the archive of notarial acts drawn up by him, in 2015, there is a notarial statement with different parties.
Specifically, the defendant LE, although his license was revoked by the Ministry of Justice, still being in possession of the notary's stamps, in cooperation with the defendant FA, created the notarial statement with false data, and then the defendant FA, on 25.02.2022, submitted this notarial statement to the former Lushnjë Prosecutor's Office.
On 02.10.2024, the Court of First Instance of the General Jurisdiction Fier concluded the judicial review of the case and decided to declare the defendant guilty of the fact sent for trial, as follows:
- The guilty plea of ??the defendant LE, for committing the criminal offense "Forgery of documents", carried out in collaboration, provided for by Article 186 paragraph 2, of the Criminal Code, and his sentence of 12 (twelve) months of imprisonment;
- The guilty plea of ??the defendant FA, for committing the criminal offense "Forgery of documents", carried out in cooperation, and his sentence of 18 (eighteen) months of imprisonment.
The Prosecutor's Office at the Court of First Instance of the Fier General Jurisdiction expresses its full commitment to the investigation and bringing before the legal responsibility of persons who commit criminal offenses in the field of falsification of documents, in order to realize benefits illegally.