Even America, known as the mother of our justice reform, refuses to recognize SKY ECC data as evidence.

2025-08-18 12:07:58Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA YLLI MANJANI
Star Manjani

During the preliminary examination of charges against a former Yugoslav citizen, for a quantity of 15,000 kg of cocaine imported into the US in 2019, the court in New York does not accept SKY ECC data as evidence.

The data as presented is NOT RELIABLE - says the court. If prosecutors provide more information on how the data was obtained, how it was decrypted, how it arrived intact in the courtroom, and on its reliability, then the court may reconsider its decision.

All normal judges in the West, now including the US, subject any data presented as evidence in a criminal trial to a legal test.

How was this evidence obtained, because according to democratic constitutions, no one can be accused, tried, or convicted with evidence obtained illegally. In Albania, this is found in Article 32 of the Constitution.

Furthermore, how authentic is the Sky ECC data? You cannot create a fair conviction on unreliable data, where all sorts of agencies and people interfere.

There are some questions that have no answers:

How did they get the data?

How were they decrypted?

How were they transported from French authorities to the prosecution bodies of other countries?

Why does that data belong to the accused persons?

In short, what guarantees does France give for the authenticity of the data it has stolen from the encrypted conversations of citizens of the world?! Citizens it does not know and does not have under criminal prosecution there. Can France give guarantees for the decryption done by the Dutch police, where the latter has hacked/stole the security codes in the SKY system?

Can someone be punished for massively stolen private data?!

Let alone the sufficiency of this data as evidence. Can conviction beyond reasonable doubt be established based on words that are unknown as to how they were obtained/stolen and are unknown as to how true they are?!

 

The New York court also asked these questions and decided not to accept this data as evidence.

Modestly, we lawyers have been asking for these things from our reformed courts for 2 years, but nothing!!!

We continue to decisively bring to the attention of the SPAK leadership cases from courts in the West, which one by one are overturning the SkY ECC for the same constitutional and legal claims that we have here.

We have brought practices from all over the world, since our constitutional judges did not want them from the Balkans because "Balkans are corrupt".... That's what the "honest" judges of our Constitution used to say under their breath...

There you have it!

Open your eyes, the entire West is now speaking one language. Evidence must be obtained through legal means. This is a principle, a guarantee, and not the whim of judges or the protagonism of prosecutors.

No one stops the reasoning at the fact that "it came to us by registered mail." No! Everyone deals with the content and procedure of taking evidence.

The question is how can a massive data interception/hacking be used as evidence? So not obtained by a court decision for a specific person..

The European Court of Justice has also said this since February of last year. All normal courts have reacted to it, because they are governed by the constitutions and laws of their countries.

Now the American court is raising the same questions.

Only our courts, under the direction of SPAK, are not doing well.

These questions still remain unanswered in Albania's reformed justice system.

I want to emphasize that we are not defending personal interests here, but rather raising a public concern about how unsafe we all are from an abusive criminal justice system. From a justice system that deals with talk and not evidence.

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One more thing on this occasion, if it weren't for the SKY ECC rumors, what kind of results would SPAK have had?!

Just think about it..!


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