Former MTI official before court mentioned and adviser to Prime Minister Kurti

It is widely known that someone without any authorization has intervened in my private email and misused that email and forged emails and then distributed them to “PDF””, accused Syla said.

Such a statement by accused Syla has been given in the trial, where he is being charged as the leader of the Doing Business and Regional Development Division at the Ministry of Trade and Industry, has misused official information aimed at benefiting the priority for the <x0); Management Development Association”, reports <x2Beneft for Justice”.

Questions asked by the head of the court, Mede Bytyqi, accused Syla, have indicated that from page 7 to 33 it is seen that he was in the workplace on time of work, and his computer has been clean from all alleged communications.

The accused Syla has also added that the indictment describes e-mails where it is seen as having alleged communications between Lion Dalipi (an adviser to Chief Prime Minister Kurti) and his leader, Valdrin Luka.

In this regard, attorney Mahmut Halimi's questions, accused Syla said he had found absurd the fact that in those e-mails, Luka has informed Dalipi of meetings that Syla has fulfilled in the EU office, which he does not believe is that he has never left the object of his superior Luka without permission.

During the hearing, special prosecutor Drita Hajdari has also attended, in which Syla has answered that checking the emails in the MTI office.

While both jurors, Judge Agim Red and the other jurors, Judge Naim Krasniqi -Jashnica has been following questions during the defense of accused Syla.

In their questions, accused Syla said he didn't know who intervened in his e-mail and that he also asked OLAF and the state prosecutor's office to investigate such a thing after the investigation began.

Indictee Syla has declared when a member of the Commission has been elected to assess the tender on O The SEU has sworn allegiance and privacy and that it has adhered to this oath.

The same has also said he has not let Dalip know of the course of the project's proceedings.

On the other hand, the head of the court asked the accused Syla about the email she writes:

Would you be able to reduce your days for a jury expert and increase them serial...”

But accused Syla said such communication did not occur and that even if it did, such a thing would not affect the evaluation criteria or the tender criteria and that he has never claimed to make such a difference.

Then the same man claimed that he never committed abuses in his career.

“Throughout my career in public institutions I've tried to give me the best of myself and I've never had the tendency to misuse”, Syla said.

The next session is scheduled on July 19th, where the final word will be delivered.

Otherwise, in this case Luan Dalipi was also accused of using official position or authority “but that the indictment was amended after the Supreme Court's trial.

The Constitutional Court in Pristina on July 3rd 2017 had rejected Xhemajl Syla's defence lawyers' requests and Luan Dalipi for dropping charges and rejecting evidence.

To this act, defence lawyers had filed complaints at the Court of Appeals.

On July 25, 2017, the Court of Appeals had rejected the appeal of accused Xhemajl Syla's defender, while having approved Luan Dalip's complaint with the argument that against Dalip, there is not sufficient evidence to support the well-founded suspicion that the same had committed the criminal work he was charged with.

Thereafter, the Supreme Court had also refused the request for protection of legitimacy filed against the court's rulings in the first and second degree.

Contrary to the amended indictment following the Supreme Court's trial, Xhemajl Syla is charged with misusing formal information with the aim of gaining priority for the company “Management Development Association”, which has been released in the tender, according to the Trade Ministry and Industry Project “competitiveness and export promotion of the European Union's two-million-euro export office, the two-dollar investment sector.

All in accordance with the indictment, after the contract had been released on April 30, 2013, for the tender in question, accused Syla, during July, August and September 2013, has been sent to Luan Dalip, manager of the company MDA, MTI internal documents and information regarding the terms and criteria for tender.

Based on these information, the charges continue, Dalip had then changed the contract criteria for selecting experts in this project, thus adjusting their company's bid for the tender in question.

After that, according to the indictment, Xhemajl Syla, as a member of the bidding assessment commission in this tender, on September 24, 2013, had signed the declaration of impartiality and privacy, which forced him to keep strictly secret about any information received as a result of his involvement in the assessment of bids in the procurement process.

Despite this indictment, however, Syla, contrary to the signed statement, has been sent to Luan Dalipi, information about assessment and submitting bids in this procurement process, announcing the company's priorities The MDA, along with other competing companies in this tender.

He is accused of committing the criminal act “Using official information” by Article 423, par. Two connected to par. 1 of the Penal Code, the work with which the chief is fined and sentenced to prison for three to twelve years.