The High Court has overturned SPAK’s request to confiscate the serves of the portal ‘Lapsi.al’, which is operated by Andi Bushati and Armand Shkullaku.

SPAK’s request is linked to the ‘Patrons list’ scandal, which included the leak of a database that contained the personal information of 920 thousand voters, like their names, workplace and voting preference.

The list was allegedly compiled by Socialist Party members dubbed patrons, who were assigned to each citizen and were tasked with noting down their personal information.

The High Court has also emphasized that in order to have these objects confiscated, “there need to be sufficient grounds, especially since in this specific case, they were necessary in order to demonstrate the evidence”.

The verdict states that ‘the court needs to be careful so as to not violate the relationship between journalists and their information source, by avoiding the necessity to reveal the source when the authenticity of the data can be verified through other means’.

Lapsi.al published the list of voters for the District of Tirana, showing Socialist Party patrons, who had made notes about the voters’ political leaning and party preferences.

SP admitted to having such a list at its disposal, but they emphasized that the database that was made public by the above-mentioned portal, had been tampered with.

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