{"id":27628,"date":"2021-12-17T16:51:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T15:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=27628"},"modified":"2021-12-17T16:51:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T15:51:02","slug":"former-judge-admir-thanzas-store-and-apartment-seized-following-spak-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/former-judge-admir-thanzas-store-and-apartment-seized-following-spak-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Former judge Admir Thanza\u2019s store and apartment seized following SPAK probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation of the Special Prosecution on those dismissed by the vetting process focused on former judge Admir Thanza.<\/p>\n<p>The former High Court judge has been part of a SPAK probe due to suspicions of hiding and not declaring personal wealth.<\/p>\n<p>Following this investigation, the Special Prosecution issued an order to confiscate 2 real estate properties registered under his name. One of them, a 70-square-meter apartment in Tirana as well as a 23-square-meter store, also in the capital city.<\/p>\n<p>Along with issues concerning his wealth during the vetting process, the International Monitoring Operation discovered an undeclared conviction of Thanza, which was issued by Italian authorities. Thanza was apparently sentenced to 40 days in prison back in 1999, and he omitted this detail from his declaration when joining the legal sphere.<\/p>\n<p>Thanza was found guilty of forging classified documents and was sentenced to 9 months in prison which was later converted to 1.5 years\u2019 probation.<\/p>\n<p>Thanza is the fourth former judge to become part of a SPAK investigation regarding undeclared wealth.<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago, the anti-corruption body started an investigation on two former members of the Constitutional Court, Bashkim Dedja and Fatos Lulo \u2013 private estates were seized from both of them.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, SPAK has also conducted an investigation on a former member of the High Court, Shkelzen Selimi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/12\/09\/sentenced-to-6-months-in-prison-kpa-discharges-judge-luan-daci\/\">Sentenced to 6 months in prison, KPA discharges Judge Luan Daci<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/shock\/2021\/09\/23\/haxhiu-its-unfortunate-that-we-havent-been-able-to-screen-800-judges-in-5-years-bushati-delays-unjustified\/\">Haxhiu: It\u2019s unfortunate that we haven\u2019t been able to screen our judges in 5 years; Bushati: Delays, unjustified \u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/09\/27\/gerdeci-and-albanias-new-justice-system-who-are-the-judges-that-dropped-medius-case\/\">Gerdeci and Albania\u2019s new justice system, who are the judges that dropped Mediu\u2019s case<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation of the Special Prosecution on those dismissed by the vetting process focused on former judge Admir Thanza. The former High Court judge has been part of a SPAK probe due to suspicions of hiding and not declaring personal wealth. Following this investigation, the Special Prosecution issued an order to confiscate 2 real estate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Former judge Admir Thanza\u2019s store and apartment seized following SPAK probe - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/former-judge-admir-thanzas-store-and-apartment-seized-following-spak-probe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former judge Admir Thanza\u2019s store and apartment seized following SPAK probe - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An investigation of the Special Prosecution on those dismissed by the vetting process focused on former judge Admir Thanza. 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