Partizan Sadushi, alarm for internationals

International embassies in our country have been mobilized regarding the interim decision of the head of the High Court, Sokol Sadushi, which serves the arrested mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj.

The international alarm comes after the letter from the head of the Democratic Party Parliamentary Group, Gazment Bardhi.

Sokol Sadushi, 14 hours before a decision by the Criminal College of the Supreme Court regarding citizen Begtash Zeneli, intervened with an interim decision. He did not let the College make a decision, but intervened himself.

His intervention has also been described by politicians as deliberate and politically well-organized with a single goal: the release of Mayor Erion Veliaj, who faces 13 charges for 5 serious criminal offenses. 

Sokol Sadushi is known as the man and close friend of Mero Baze. The latter, a journalist from the Veliaj family, has also intervened in CNA to remove articles about Sadushi, who is now serving as part of a group that is seeking to interfere in criminal proceedings, purely and solely for political purposes.

Mero Baze asked not to be written about or attacked, while Sadushi was going to the Supreme Court and the schemes were being revealed.

Sadushi's decisions, part of the scenario for Veliaj's release from prison, are a stab in the back against Justice Reform and institutions that seek to fight corruption. / CNA

The DP Parliamentary Group has sent an official letter to the embassies in Tirana regarding the interim decision of the head of the High Court, Sokol Sadushi, which serves the arrested mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj.

The DP has expressed concern regarding the issue, while it is said that Sadushi's personal initiative only aims to release corrupt officials, including Veliaj.

In this context, the DP asks embassies to closely monitor the process and decision-making of the Joint Colleges of the Supreme Court.

Full letter:

Through this letter, we would like to express our concern regarding recent developments in the justice system in Albania, in particular the meeting of the Joint Colleges of the Supreme Court on April 9, to review issues related to the security measure “prison arrest” (detention). This represents a personal initiative of President Sokol Sadushi, without a legal justification on its basis.

The move comes at a sensitive time for the fight against corruption in the country, where a number of senior and former officials are currently under investigation or subject to security measures on serious charges, including corruption and abuse of office. Currently, the only senior official in office in prison is the Mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj. The decision could also affect several high-profile organized crime figures currently in custody.

At the same time, recent public statements by senior representatives of the executive branch, including the Prime Minister, have expressed criticism of the use of “prison arrest” and the broader practice of pre-trial detention. These statements have raised additional concerns regarding the possible perception of influence or pressure on justice institutions at such a sensitive time.

There is a reasonable public concern that a new or more lenient interpretation of this security measure could lead to changes in the status of detained persons, including high-profile political and organized crime figures. Such a development could significantly affect public confidence in the independence of the judiciary and the seriousness of efforts to combat corruption at the highest levels.

The fight against corruption and holding senior officials accountable are essential pillars for Albania’s integration process into the European Union. Any effort that undermines the fight against corruption, the work of the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SPAK), or the proper prosecution and punishment of senior political figures also risks undermining the country’s path to European integration.

In this context, we kindly call on you to:

• To closely monitor the process and decision-making of the Joint Panels of the Supreme Court;

• Encourage transparency and respect for international standards of the rule of law;

• Support Albanian institutions in guaranteeing an impartial, independent and consistent justice system.

Public trust in the justice system is a key element for Albania's democratic stability and European integration. For this reason, any decision with far-reaching implications must be based on strong legal principles and protected from any perception of political influence.

We thank you for your attention and continued commitment to strengthening the rule of law in Albania. / CNA

Sokol Sadushi, one day before a decision by the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court, intervened with an interim decision.

He found Begtash Zeneli and struck 14 hours before. He didn't let the college make a decision, but intervened himself.

And now he has proposed that the Joint College convene to discuss the 2011 decision.

A criminal practice that will actually be discussed by the majority of civil judges, namely the Administrative College and the Civil College, while the chances are clearly that the Criminal College will be against it because it is the one that will work with that practice, it is the one that will follow it, it is the college that has exhausted and has also worked with the practices of the past.

In fact, such a decision by Sokol Sadushi or any president of the Supreme Court could come at any moment. The question that arises is simply: why did Sokol Sadushi intervene now? What is the reason? What is the purpose? Did Mero Baze, the journalist of the Veliaj family, intervene with Sokol Sadushi? They are both friends.

CNA has materials and concrete interventions that Mero Baze made in the media for Sokol Sadushi.

He asked not to be written about, not to be attacked, while Sadushi was going to the Supreme Court and the schemes were being revealed.

Sokol Sadushi is indebted to Mero Baze for the media support he has given him and is now the president of the court where the effort to bring Erion Veliaj home will take place.

Sokol Sadushi has many questions.

With a kamikaze move, he asks to convene the United College the day after the trial of Ilir Meta. Meanwhile, a month later, after his decision is made public, there is the trial of Erion Veliaj in the Constitutional Court and thus the scheme clearly works. Ilir Meta is in a daze, a new decision is made to expel Erion Veliaj.

This could be called an allusion, but Sokol Sadushi's intervention is as criminal as a murder that could be committed against the justice system.

This is because the decision comes at a time when the only senior Albanian state official facing 13 serious criminal charges, most of them for corruption, is being held in prison and has been postponing criminal court proceedings for 7-8 months.

For almost a year now, he has been attacking judges and prosecutors from his cell. They have been seen in wiretaps, they have been seen in articles, in the government media, in the media paid for by the incinerators, the "5D" media, and now Sokol Sadushi brings us an interim decision at a very delicate moment.

When justice in Albania must receive its due weight, when the European Union must evaluate the justice structures, not only SPAK, but also the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court and other institutions.

Some of them have become like those rags used to wipe cement that haven't been cleaned for months, but they are so dirty that they are blocking Albania's path to Europe. And Sokol Sadushi can also block this with the action he is taking.

So we are faced with the fact: will the United College accept being used as a tool, as an army of mercenaries to fulfill Sokol Sadushi's whims, to implement the possible scenario of Erion Veliaj's release?

Or will he stand as a man of integrity in the face of the Sadducees, the Mero Bazes and every other screenwriter to show that in Albania there are responsible officials, that in Albania there are responsible judges, that in Albania there are people who really know how to weigh and are not used like a prisoner's toilet paper in the cells of Durrës?/ CNA

The Justice Reform has had many "lovers", from the one who called himself 'father', Fatmir Xhafaj, to Edi Rama who said he was the one who made the reform, to Erion Veliaj who loved it and should be invested in the Justice Reform and SPAK, but who then began to attack and accuse it. There was Mero Baza, there was also Carlo Bollino.

But where they are and where they are not now, things have changed a lot. But the most special are the lovers of Justice Reform in the opposition: Gazment Bardhi and Jorida Tabaku. Spectacular examples!

While Sokol Sadushi has "punched" the Criminal College of the Supreme Court, one day before they were to issue a decision on certain issues, he has intervened with an interim decision, with the aim of leading to the release of the arrested mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj.

Sokol Sadushi is known as a close friend of Mero Baza, who declares up and down that the mayor will soon be released from prison. Using this interim decision, with a new decision of the United Colleges, to then facilitate the possibility of bringing the mayor of Tirana to the Constitutional Court, he is facing 13 charges for 5 serious criminal offenses.

Gazment Bardhi and Jorida Tabaku are the people who have the most space in the left-wing media, those paid by the incinerators, by the Municipality of Tirana, by Veliaj's brother, such as Mero Baze or Carlo Bollino. In their media you find endless information. It is enough for Jorida to make a status and Gazi, the space is given to them immediately, by order, with a stick and the news is given directly. Now the problem is that there is an event such as this of the action of the President of the Supreme Court, Sokol Sadushi. Gazment Bardhi and Jorida Tabaku do not talk about this.

These "lovers" of Justice Reform, why don't they talk about Sokol Sadushi who went out the door and came in through the window through Justice Reform without vetting? Why don't they talk about the interim decision that Sokol Sadushi issued? Not only by reacting politically, but those who go and report to the Bundestag, to the European Union, to the American Embassy, ??how is it possible that these "lovers" of Justice Reform don't notify these institutions?

When we say Gazi and Jorida, there are many others within the opposition, because those in power have that job, their interest is linked to Erion Veliaj, to the 99. But how is it possible that these opposition members are silent? That they do not react? That they do not notify embassies? That they do not notify partner countries regarding this interim decision of Sokol Sadushi, which has an ultimate goal, namely the release of Erion Veliaj, the only mayor and high-ranking official in office who is in prison.

Gaz Bardhi reacts to Marta Kos, Jorida Tabaku reacts to 1001 stupid things, but these two do not react to Sokol Sadushi. These two are the example, as we emphasized, that there are many others. These react to senior EU officials, these react to ambassadors, these react to everything.

Not to mention that Gazi and Jorida were not seen in those protests that were held against Veliaj. But even sometimes when they passed by, they passed by just enough to be seen. Therefore, beyond any doubt or journalistic speculation, how is it possible that these people find space in the media paid for by Veliaj's brother? How is it possible that they find space in Mero Bazet and Carlo Bollinot, the media paid for by the incinerators?

How is it possible that they do not react to Sokol Sadushi? How is it possible that they did not participate in the protests against Erion Veliaj? How is it possible that they do not already inform the international community, as they claim to be their great collaborators, and call the embassies and listen to these enlightened minds? Why do these "lovers" of Justice Reform not denounce Sokol Sadushi's action to international institutions, which ultimately aims to get Erion Veliaj out of prison?

Are these "lovers" of Justice Reform, or are they "lovers" of Erion Veliaj?!/CNA

Sokol Sadushi is the President of the Supreme Court of Albania, the head of a very important institution that became part of numerous debates at the time of its constitution.

The Supreme Court is seen by internationals as an institution that should be impartial and, by any standard, even the minimum European one, should have experienced lawyers, people with integrity who are the pinnacle of judicial power, and after them, only the Constitutional Court remains.

The latter is where the noise comes in, but in the Supreme Court, which has professional names and is experienced, it should be so badly misused and thrown out of business or used by its president as private property, let's not say worse than that, like those red-light houses where anyone can enter and exit for a fee, that's how the case of president Sokol Sadushi can be called.

Sadushi is one of the people who participated in the justice reform and at that time its drafters were told that they would not be included and would not be part of the new justice structure, but from the head of the Magistrate's Office, Sokol Sadushi jumped to the head of the Supreme Court and without vetting, if we go by the vetting standards according to the reform that our partisan made, not only would he not be in the justice system, but he would probably be under investigation by SPAK, like many of his other colleagues.

However, we are not going into this in depth, although we will soon have a full analysis of Sokol Sadushi's assets, but the last action taken on March 9, about 12 days ago, shows us the lack of integrity, misuse, and perhaps even the hostage-taking of the partisan Sadushi who has gone into hiding.

Perhaps it could be called the Paraspuari detachment.

From the captain of Peshtan, Mero Baze, the man who tries to strongly protect Sokol Sadushi in the media and politically and is in great trouble and now perhaps using him for his own interests, as Mero Baze declares that Erion Veliaj will come out very soon and he says this in more than a few circles of friends.

He used to declare that Edi Rama had put him in, now he says that we will get him out very soon and the scheme is ready.

Sokol Sadushi intervened with an interim decision on March 9, while also undermining the integrity of the Supreme Court because he intervened about 14 hours before the Criminal College of this court issued a decision.

Where does it happen? In which country in the world? Where did Sokol Sadushi find the file among the 20,000 or so that the Supreme Court has?

Who gave it to him and why? Did he ask for it himself? Why did he intervene with an interim decision that he had never intervened with since the day he took office and vetoed it, perhaps because he saw that he could not resolve the decision the way he wanted with the Criminal College.

Now he thinks that with the United Colleges where he controls the administrative and civil, he will succeed in overturning a decision from 2011 with the aim of releasing the leader of the squad from Paraspuari to please Captain Mero Baze of Peshtani. This is the goal.

The best thing is that on the 9th, the Joint Panel was called to make a decision, while Ilir Meta's trial was postponed to the 8th, the day before.

So, Ilir Meta should remain in prison, then the College's decision is made and on May 10th, Erion Veliaj's trial is held, one month after the 2011 decision of the Joint College is changed with the decision of the new College, to be clarified, justified, published and then live happily by the commander of the Paraspuari squad Erion Veliaj followed by the captain of the Peshtan Mero Baze and in implementation by the partisan Sadushi who went to the squad, blowing up not only the Criminal College of the High Court but also becoming part of a group of collaborators with a man who has 13 serious criminal charges.

With a man who has attacked justice, has attacked Sokol Sadushi's colleagues from the first to the last, and has done this through Mero Baze, simply and only to get a corrupt person out of prison, where the Court of Appeal has said that between Erion Veliaj, Elman Abule and Ajola Xoxa there may be a structured criminal group.

Perhaps SPAK overcame it and did not lead him to such a criminal offense, did not investigate it, but if it were to delve deeper and find accomplices as part of a structured criminal group and were faced with such a fact, Sadushi and Mero Baze would be accomplices just as Erion Veliaj ordered from Durrës prison to question Mero and then attack prosecutors and judges.

Where is the difference between a structured criminal group that collaborates for various criminal offenses, with a group of individuals, media, judges, journalists, lawyers, businessmen who are doing everything they can to get their "leader" from Paraspuari, Erion Veliaj, out of prison. His servant is now the partisan who came to the cheta, Sokol Sadushi./ CNA