Press Release

The General Prosecution asks by the Albanian Parliament the authorization to “arrest” the citizen Mark Frroku, as the Belgian judicial authorities have issued an international arrest warrant, according to which he has carried out the criminal offense of premeditated murder in collaboration, provided by Article 66 and 394 of the Criminal Code of Belgium.

The request to the Parliament, which relies on Article 73/2 of the Constitution of the Republic of Albania, is based on the material come to the General Prosecutor by the National Central Bureau Interpol Tirana, with the requisition dated on 27.03.2015 and the Ministry of Justice, with the requisition dated on 28.03.2015. Following this information, the General Prosecution has registered the criminal proceedings no.2, dt.28.03.2015, for the offense of "premeditated murder" in collaboration, provided in Article 78/1 and 25 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Albania.

At the request to the Parliament for the authorization, the General Prosecution of Albania suggests to the deputies of the Parliament that the General Prosecutor at the Brussels Court of Appeal has filed the accusatory pleading against the citizen Mark Frroku (alias Besnik Morina), charged with "premeditated murder" in collaboration, of the citizen Aleksander Kurti, which happened in Brussels, on 05.03.1999.
For this event, the Belgian authorities accuse 4 Albanian nationals, where is included the citizen Mark Frroku, currently deputy in the Parliament.

The defendants were tried in absentia and, on January 15th 2010, the Court for Serious Crimes in Brussels has sentenced each of them to 10 years in prison.
This judicial proceeding is conducted in the absence of the suspects, who were represented by their attorneys. Two of the defendants, where one of them is the citizen Mark Frroku, have appealed this decision, arguing that their attorneys have been contradictory in protecting their clients, without stating clearly the rejection of the charge.

According to the criminal procedural legislation of Belgium, this reasoning presented by the two Albanian citizens is the argument to accept the appeal. The Cassation Court decision dated on 24 March 2010 has remanded the case for retrial.

Based on the appeal of the defence, the President of the Court of Appeal for Serious Crimes in Brussels, on 31 January 2014, has initially decided that the examination of this case to begin in February 2015, but a few weeks ago, the judge has decided that this process to begin in October 2015.

Based on acts that are available to the Albanian Prosecution Office, turns out that the citizen Mark Frroku and his three compatriots are the persons charged with the murder of the citizen Aleksander Kurti, occurred in 1999. According to investigative materials, it turns out that this murder is as a result of collisions of groups that deal with prostitution in Brussels.