He deceived the citizens/ the National Chamber of Advocacy revokes the license of Idajet Beqiri

2024-12-11 10:12:00, Aktualitet CNA

He deceived the citizens/ the National Chamber of Advocacy revokes the license

Idajet Beqiri

The National Chamber of Advocacy revoked Idajet Beqiri's license as a fraudulent lawyer and for lying to the citizens.

In the decision of 20/11/2024, the Disciplinary Committee after DHASH received the request for disciplinary proceedings against Idajet Beqiri.

Complainant FK addressed the Disciplinary Committee of DHASH for violation of lawyer Idajet Beqiri in practicing the profession of lawyer, related to a civil case for the demolition of a building without permission in his possession.

After explaining the case, the lawyer took over the representation, promising to close the case by asking the court through a lawsuit to suspend the execution of the court decision.

The complainant claims that the lawyer asked him for 200,000 (Two hundred thousand) ALL, which the complainant claims he paid in cash, in good faith and without a financial document.

After a few days, the execution of the court decision was carried out by the private bailiff and under these conditions the complainant requested a meeting with the lawyer to find out the circumstances in which the decision was executed and that, according to him, the reality showed that the lawyer had not implemented it the promise they had agreed to.

On the part of the lawyer, there was no reaction and not only did he not make any attempt to meet him, but he cut off all communication with the complaining client, even hiding when the latter appeared in his office to meet him and ask for explanations.

In these conditions, when there was no more possibility and hope of communication with the lawyer, the complainant addressed the prosecution with a criminal report against the lawyer for the criminal offense of fraud, provided for by Article 143 of the Penal Code. At the end of the criminal investigation, on 28.12.2023, the prosecution communicated to the complainant the decision not to initiate criminal proceedings.

It is said, among other things, in the decision of DHASH:

The complainant claims that:

1. The lawyer did not respect the (oral) agreement and did not show transparency to provide clarifications regarding the legal situation in which the events took place, as well as to explain the activity of the lawyer until the moment of execution of the decision and the reasons why it was not done it is possible to stop the execution of the decision. Who was the lawyer's activity carried out in the function of the lawyer's service. In the conditions of complete lack of transparency, the client had no knowledge about the actions that the lawyer performed in this representation.

2. The lawyer requested and received the amount of 200,000 ALL without issuing a tax invoice, forcing him to pay the claimed amount in cash. For this reason, today he is unable to prove the payment of the amount paid by him on behalf of the lawyer. The client explains that in good faith he paid the amount requested by the lawyer without an invoice, as he promised that the matter would be resolved and for him it was not the money paid but the resolution of the matter that mattered.

3. In no case has the lawyer contacted and accepted a meeting with the client to give explanations, even to justify the non-fulfillment of the given promise. He had the legal obligation to justify the amounts obtained through a transparent process for the administrative legal actions carried out by him.

At the end of the administrative review, the Disciplinary Committee came to the conclusion that in the lawyer-client relationship between the complainant FK and the lawyer Idajet Beqiri, there was a violation of the provisions of the law and other by-laws on the part of the latter according to the classification provided in the article 39, letters "a" and "b" of Law 55/2018. These illegal actions consist of violating the requirements provided by Article 3, point 2; article 8, letter "dh"; article 15, point 33; article 16, points 1 and 2 of the Law and referring to the fact that the lawyer's violations were repeated and of the same nature, the request of the appellant must be accepted.

Under these conditions, the National Chamber has decided that:

1. To suspend the permit to practice the profession for a period of 3 (Three) months;

2. The return of the amount of 40'000 (Forty thousand) lek to Mr. Ferdi Kastrati, as an unrealized service to the customer.