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Pressures and scenarios against justice / Today, the hearing at the GJKKO for Erion Veliaj

2026-05-26 10:29:00, Aktualitet CNA

Pressures and scenarios against justice / Today, the hearing at the GJKKO for

Today, a hearing is being held at the Criminal Court for the arrested mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj, on 13 charges for 5 serious criminal offenses.

Erion Veliaj is not present at the court session. Like a coward, he avoids the trials at the GJKKO, as he is afraid to face the 13 charges for the 5 serious criminal offenses that weigh heavily on him.

In this hearing, the defendant is represented by lawyer Plarent Ndreca.

Meanwhile, in parallel, Erion Veliaj and his defendant lawyer Plarent Ndreca are using various tactics to avoid facing justice.

The arrested mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj, continues to delay trials using every possible scheme and machination. His voluminous file has been in court since July and Erion Veliaj has been following the saga of postponing hearings for 10 months.

13 charges for 5 serious offenses, 9 counts of corruption, abuse of office, laundering of proceeds of crime, concealment of assets, and bringing prohibited items into the cell weigh heavily on Mayor Erion Veliaj.

Over 60 thousand pages of evidence that substantiate the accusations against the mayor that he has used his office, municipal funds, to enrich himself and his family. During this period, Veliaj has used every kind of machination, from changing lawyers to attacks or lawsuits against prosecutors and their decisions in various courts.

From the dungeon of Durrës prison, he continues to use media attacks, using his family's journalist, Mero Bazen, and other media outlets paid by him and his brother to attack and blackmail the prosecutors and judges who have dealt with his case.

The attacks reach as far as the US, with reports filled with fraud and lobbying law firms being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to submit these reports filled with lies exposed one after another.

With various sponsored articles in foreign media by third parties expressing reservations about justice in Albania. With scenarios of changing lawyers, only to end up being defended by a lawyer who is accused by SPAK, like Plarent Ndreca.

All of Veliaj's squirms against justice show that he is a coward, that he is not man enough to go to court to face the facts and evidence that prosecutors have found on which the 13 serious charges have been filed./ CNA