Meta's lawyer "explodes the bombshell": Soon the material with the politician who takes cash

2026-03-27 13:52:00, Politikë CNA

Meta's lawyer "explodes the bombshell": Soon the material with

Judge Irena Gjoka, who is reviewing the case against the leader of the Freedom Party, Ilir Meta, has been at the center of controversy over conflict of interest.

Meta's lawyer, Gylsen Zhllima, stated in a press conference that Gjoka had previously been part of a trial in 2016, where it was decided to confiscate the assets of citizen Kastriot Ismailaj.

According to the lawyer, this constitutes a prior connection that makes her unsuitable for examining the former president's case, and she requested that she be excluded from the trial.

Zhllima added that Gjoka's appointment in this political matter reflects a repeated practice and presented it as part of a strategy to attack Meta's figure through "perceptual justice" and not based on concrete facts.

He also announced the publication of new material that will show by name and surname a politician receiving cash, as part of the much-discussed CEZ-DIA agreement, emphasizing that Ilir Meta has no connection to this affair.

"The judicial decision of the Court of First Instance of Serious Crimes, which is presided over by Ms. Irena Gjoka, who has confiscated the assets of Mr. Kastriot Ismailaj. You clearly understand that it is impossible for a judge in a judicial and criminal process not to look at and not to ask for exemption when his own name is in the acts and there he should at least ask to recuse himself because he has judged in the past and in 2016 the assets of the person whose assets were confiscated. So, in short, for those who believe in independent and impartial justice at the GJKKO, which is cleared of vetting with quotation marks, it is clearly shown that Ms. Irena Gjoka is almost in the case of Mr. Berisha, Mr. Mediu, in the case of Mr. Meta and where there are opponents, Ms. Gjoka is the rapporteur and always decides in favor of the opponents.

But what should seem strange is this, related from 2011 onwards, that the political elimination of Mr. Meta is not simply a short-term plan, it is a long-term plan and it is understood that they wanted to implicate him with many criminal facts, that is, of what we call perception, so human perceptual justice is more dangerous than factual criminal, but we are presenting to you how they, in the public perception of the famous video of 2011, if the late Dritan Prifti had a criminal fact against Mr. Meta, would not have made the video where it is suspected that there is also a video about Mr. Dritan Prifti, but he would have brought the ÇEZ-DIA case as a concrete criminal fact. But we will allow you, because the minutes are also short, we will allow you that at the next conference we will release a material where it is clearly visible by name and surname the politician who will receive cash from this famous agreement that is ÇEZ-DIA, which has no connection at all to our protégé, Mr. Ilir Meta.

So, I clearly ask the director, because this is the best and most beautiful picture, despite the fact that we said many important facts, how is it possible that the same judge is also the judge of the preliminary hearing against Mr. Meta. So, they gave the preliminary hearing, they gave the opportunity to see and judge and investigate, honorable colleague, in an impartial, independent manner, Ms. Irena Gjoka, the acts against Mr. Meta and she did not say at least one word regarding the 2016 decision, where she herself is involved because she confiscated Kastriot Ismailaj's assets. Therefore, I stand by everything my colleague said, but do not forget a very important fact, that the person who was in prison conditions, Mr. Kastriot Ismailaj, on 21.04.2022, clearly stated and being almost threatened by many other factors, declared that between Mr. Elvis Mataj, Mr. Romeo Kara and him, there was an agreement, a relationship that was also monetary, among other things, "said Meta's lawyer.