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"Ervin Muça in a panic ordered the deletion of the cameras"/ The secret report on the director's entrances and exits is clarified

2024-04-10 21:49:00, Aktualitet CNA

Ervin Muça

The show "Në Shënjestër" by journalist Klodiana Lala has addressed the intervention in the TIMS system this evening, an event that caused many reactions, including that of the American embassy in Tirana, clarifying in detail what happened.

Excerpts from the documentary:

And as if all these violations were not enough, always according to the whistleblowers, director Ervin Muça, in a state of panic, asked to delete the video footage of the cameras of the Department of Technology and Information, in order not to identify the persons he had taken externally to export the TIMS system database.

"Director Ervin Muça also asked to quickly contact the person responsible for the cameras of the premises where the export was carried out by unknown persons, but at the moment this person has not responded. What has happened is a robbery of police records by a person who has not even been on the job for a month, and likewise no security clearance. Appointed with the utmost secrecy to obtain the records of secret police information as he did in Taxation. Likewise, until a month ago, this person was the director of IT at the Cadastre, where he stole the entire database of mortgage assets of Albanians under the pretext of the digital cadastre," the complaint states. This denunciation set in motion the Directorate for the Investigation of Cybercrimes, under the Criminal Police Department, in the General Directorate of the State Police. During the investigation, the security cameras in the premises of the Department of Technology and Information on the street 'Mine Peza' in Tirana were also examined, from which on August 2, 2023, the movements of outsiders entering the this department called there by the director Ervin Muça.

In the secret report of the Police Surveillance Agency, it is stated that from the film footage, it was found that on August 2, 2023 at 17:45 Besjon Tanuzi, Director of the Systems Directorate, as well as the citizen identified as Klodian entered the Technology and Information Directorate Mazari, responsible for the sector in AKSHI, near the KKB. The citizen Marjana Shehi, who is not an employee at the DTI, also entered the institution. Based on further verifications, it turns out that these citizens have entered the premises of the Directorate of Technology and Information, using the access card of one of the institution's employees. And further, these same people were seen entering the specialist's office to leave around midnight.

"From the inspection of the security cameras, it appears that at 11:52 PM citizens Klodian Mazari and AV both left the office and went up to the second floor. At 11:54 p.m., the AV employee left the DTI offices, and then at 12:19 a.m. on August 3, 2023, they came down from the second floor and exited the DTI director Ervin Muça and citizen Klodian Mazari," the file states. .

To hide his tracks or for other reasons, the fact is that the director Ervin Muça used the card of one of his employees to enter and leave the institution. Referring to the security camera footage, it appears that the Director of the Technology and Information Directorate, Ervin Muça, and the Director of the DTI Systems Directorate, Besjon Tanuzi, entered and left the institution several times.

"It turns out that Ervin Muça left the institution at 11:01 p.m. He used the code of one of his subordinates in the input/output system. 15 minutes later, he re-entered the institution using the subordinate's code. The official stated that she had given the access code to director Besjon Tanuzi and not to superior Ervin Muça," the file states.

One of the elements of the evidence that the investigative group provided was the Hard Disk that was used to export the materials from the TIMS system, where the traces of the back up performed on the external Hard Disk used by the director Ervin Muça and the people he called for help as well as the time intervals when the server was hacked. A computer was used to access the server and through it the data would be copied to the Hard Disk.

"From examining the data of the TIMS system server, it turned out that the last change was made on August 3, 2023, at 01:39. There were three files inside a folder, for which the last change was made on August 2, 2023, 23:53. In a second folder, there were four files where for three of them the last change was made on August 2, 2023, at 21:27. While for the other file, the last change was made on August 2, 2023, at 23:20. In another folder there were 12 files, 9 of which were last modified on August 3, 2023, at 00:31. While for the next three files, the last change was made on August 3, 2023, at 00:30", the investigators clarify.

So, as it turns out above, data was dumped on the Hard Disc for hours, to end I don't know where, but of course these actions were not carried out to save citizens' data, but the purpose was criminal. Interviewed by the investigative group, the director of the Department of Technology and Information in the State Police, Ervin Muça, justified himself regarding this intervention, that the regulation was unclear. And that there are no administered regulations or standard procedures for the operation of the DTI, as well as any order or written material related to the actions in question. Meanwhile, the only charge against him so far is for the criminal offenses of 'Unauthorized Computer Access' and 'Abuse of Duty'.

At noon on Tuesday, the prosecutor's office announced that Ervin Muca was officially taken under investigation for the criminal offense of "Unauthorized Computer Access".

As the show "Në Shenjëstër" has revealed, it is confirmed that "on 02.08.2023 in the database of the State Police, which is located in the building of the Directorate of Technology and Information at the address Rr. Mine Peza in Tirana, there was entry and export of unauthorized data by the Director of Technology and Information, Ervin Mucca. The actions were carried out late at night, where unauthorized persons entered the building with the personal pin of another employee who was not present, raising reasonable suspicions of incorrect actions and in violation of the law.

The prosecution has revealed the fact that Ervin Muça has hidden details of his past in Italy. "The person under investigation, according to letter no. 3041/1 prot, date 08.01.2024 of the Police Supervision Agency, it results that on 23.10.2007 in Italy he was reported as responsible for the criminal offenses of false documents committed by private persons and the use of a false act. On 09.09.2008, the EM citizen was notified of the decision to refuse the renewal of the residence permit obtained by the police headquarters in Bari".

"From the investigation and the criminal proceedings, among others, it results that the person under investigation is an external advisor to the Director of the State Cadastre Agency, while he is also the Director of the Department for Technology and Information in the State Police. The law on the state police prohibits second activities besides teaching. The person under investigation, Ervin Muça, did not declare this second activity in the application documents for the position of DTI in the state police", concludes the prosecution body. An investigation that remains incomplete as long as he quietly continues his duties and the reason why he tried to export the police database remains unclear. And if there is someone higher up behind him who with his own hands, was interested in having this data in his hands, so important.