In the next hearing against the former Minister of Defense, Fatmir Mediu, the Special Court administered the statements given by the former Chief of General Staff of the FA, Luan Hoxha, in February 2009.
This after, during an interruption of the session, SPAK prosecutors confirmed through the TIMS system that Hoxha had left the country in 2012.
Valuing Hoxha's testimony as important, the defendant Mediu asked his question via video conference, but SPAK prosecutors said they did not have an address of the former general, convicted in the first trial of the "Gërdeci" file.
In the same session, the prosecutors started the presentation of written evidence, including the American expert report on the cause of the explosion in Gërdec, the military and financial expert report. According to SPAK, the cause of the explosion could be the flame caused by the contact of a newly welded cart with the gunpowder bags. According to the accusation, one possibility is also the non-delivery of lighters at the entrance of the factory, or the contact of the metal wheels of the cart.
According to the military expert opinion, the dismantling of large calibers could not be done at a close distance to the inhabited area, while the financial expert opinion calculated a cost of 59 million lek for the transport, which is considered according to SPAK, damage to the state budget .
For their part, Mediu's lawyers and the defendant himself said that SPAK had to prove what each of the written evidences had to do with Mediu's powers as a minister.
"Just as the summons of witnesses was requested, the prosecution has brought a volume of documents without determining anything. Without defining the responsibilities of the minister. A carriage was said to have been welded. We asked the prosecution to tell us where the minister's responsibility lies in the abuse of office. If you don't get to the core of the truth, I think it's a process to move on to the next process. As if they want the session to end quickly. People know what happened in Gërdec. They have to find out what the minister has done. I have to analyze the expertise of the Americans. They have left 5 causes in force. It didn't happen the first time, so I think all things should be taken into consideration. The ministry does not deal with caliber issues. The Chief of the General Staff must give his version. It is not difficult to find his address in the USA", Mediu told reporters after the session.