Policy Paper on Cyber Security 2015 - 2017
Referring to the official statistics from the Albanian State Police on cyber crime, which is
provided as an offence by the Criminal Code of the Republic of Albania, it results that 180
criminal offences were reported over the period January – December 2014; 76 of them are
detected, with 86 offenders, 74 of them are on bail, 10 are arrested and 2 are at large. 108 criminal
offences were reported over the period January – December 2013, 63 of them are detected, with
69 offenders, out of whom 58 are on bail, 9 arrested and 2 are at large.
Compared to the same period of the previous year, there were reported 72 criminal offences more,
with 17 more offenders, 1 more arrested person.
Divided by criminal offences, the figures are as follows:
Article 119/a, “Dissemination of racist or xenophobic materials via the computer system”,
1 case is reported, the offender is not identified;
Article 143/b, “Computer fraud”, 49 cases reported, with 14 offenders on bail and 1
arrested;
Article 186/a, “Computer Forgery’’, 28 cases reported, with 20 offenders, out of whom 4
are arrested and 16 on bail;
Article 192/b, “Unauthorized Computer Access”, 14 cases reported, with 7 offenders on
bail;
Article 293/a, “Unlawful Surveillance of Computer Data”, 1 case reported with 2 ofenders
on bail;
Article 293/b, “Computer data interference”, 33 cases reported with 16 offenders, out of
whom 2 are arrested and 14 on bail;
Article 293/c, “Computer systems interference”, 4 cases are reported with 3 offenders on
bail;
Article 121 “Unlawful interference with privacy”, 4 cases are reported, no offenders are
identified;
Article 117, third paragraph, “Pornography”, 38 cases reported with 14 offenders on bail.
Article 121/a “Persecution”, 4 criminal cases are reported, 3 of them are detected, with 2
offenders, who were tried on bail and 1 is arrested;
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Article 137/a “Theft of electronic communication network”, 1 criminal offence is reported