SPAK suspects that businessman Pëllumb Gjoka tried to "influence" the decision for "Sky ECC"

2025-03-04 20:44:00, Aktualitet CNA

SPAK suspects that businessman Pëllumb Gjoka tried to "influence"

A leaked document to the media suggests that the Special Prosecution Office against Organized Crime and Corruption undertook a series of investigative actions – including environmental wiretapping of a member of the Constitutional Court, as part of a passive corruption proceeding.

According to the document, SPAK ordered the wiretapping of Constitutional Court member Gent Ibrahimi in public places between February 10 and February 25, after it had information that interested parties had influenced him on the way he formulated the reasoning for the Constitutional Court's decision on an appeal by businessman Pëllumb Gjoka.

According to the document leaked to the media, the reasoning in favor of Gjoka by the Constitutional Court would also be used in many other similar judgments, based on data obtained from the Sky ECC application, as the decision-making of the Constitutional Court is a mandatory practice for other justice institutions.

SPAK did not comment on the authenticity of the published copy of the act, nor did it indicate whether there is an investigation into the leak of this document to the media.

"We have no comment at the moment," SPAK said through its media relations coordinator.

Judge Gent Ibrahimi was not available for comment by phone. Meanwhile, in a press release, the Constitutional Court denied that its decisions could be illegally influenced.

"Given the media debate of recent days regarding the wiretapping of a constitutional judge by the Special Prosecutor's Office, which is related to the exercise of his activity, we consider it important to clarify to public opinion that, in exercising the constitutional mission to guarantee the supremacy of the Constitution, it is guided by the principles of collegiality, independence and impartiality, sanctioned in the fundamental law," said the Constitutional Court.

Businessman Pëllumb Gjoka, declared by the 'Rama' government as a strategic investor, was arrested in July 2023 as part of a criminal organization, after communications were found on the Sky ECC application linking him to a series of serious criminal offenses, including murder.

Communications captured by French authorities on the Sky ECC app have served as the basis for a series of investigations into organized crime, politicians, and senior justice officials.

Gjoka appealed the decision that keeps him in prison at all three levels of trial, challenging his detention as illegal based on evidence obtained by Sky ECC, but to no avail.

Subsequently, it filed a request with the Constitutional Court to declare Sky ECC communications unusable, but with a unanimous decision dated December 30, the Constitutional Court dismissed the request./ Reporter.al