1Upon request of the foreign country, presented by the Minister of Justice through the prosecutor in the competent court, the court may impose temporarily a coercive measure before the request for extradition arrives.

2The measure may be imposed when:

athe foreign country has declared that the person has been subjected to a measure restricting his personal freedom or to a sentence by imprisonment and that it is going to present request for extradition;

bthe foreign country has presented detailed information on the criminal offence and sufficient elements for the identification of the person;

cthere exists a risk for him to escape.

3The competency to impose the measure shall belong, respectively, to the district court in whose territory the person has the domicile, residence or the house or the court of the district where he is. In case the competence cannot be determined in the manners defined above, competent shall be the court of the judicial district of Tirana.

4The court may also order the sequestration of the material evidence and of the items pertaining to the criminal offence.

5The Ministry of Justice gives notice to the foreign country of the temporary execution of the coercive measure and of the possible sequestration.

6The coercive measures are revoked if, within eighteen days after the arrest and anyhow in a maximum of forty days after the arrest, the request for extradition and the documents enclosed do not arrive to the Ministry of Justice.