Key legal question
Whether a Swiss court may execute the Albanian conviction by exequatur under Art. 96 lit. c EIMP.
Extracted holding
The exequatur had to be refused because the foreign proceedings did not establish, in a non-equivocal way, that the convicted person had validly been summoned, waived appearance, and benefited from adequate defense guarantees.
Extracted reasoning
After the Albanian Supreme Court had annulled the first proceedings for defective service, the renewed procedure showed no proof of effective summons, no contact with counsel, and no clear waiver or deliberate evasion; the requirements for recognizing a default judgment were therefore not met.