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Endlessly dragging out court processes/ Today, Veliaj's next hearing at the GJKKO

2026-07-21 08:41:00, Aktualitet CNA

Endlessly dragging out court processes/ Today, Veliaj's next hearing at the

Today, the next hearing will be held at the Special Court against Corruption and Organized Crime against the mayor, Erion Veliaj, who was arrested on 13 charges for 5 serious criminal offenses.

The mayor, who is facing 13 serious charges, continues with the saga of dragging out legal proceedings by using various strategies, starting from illnesses, accidents, files, the glass cage, etc., as he is afraid to face the facts and evidence, and therefore avoids justice and delays the process.

9 charges of corruption, abuse of office, laundering the proceeds of crime, concealing assets, and bringing prohibited items into the cell are the charges against Veliaj.

Over 60,000 pages of facts and evidence have been sent to court, which Erion Veliaj is clearly afraid to face, given the schemes and scenarios he uses.

The arrested mayor of Tirana has been using various excuses for a year to avoid attending GJKKO hearings, while on the other hand, he has been carrying out an aggressive attack on the judiciary, SPAK, prosecutors and judges with his media soldiers for a long time.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars are paid by his brother for anti-justice reports, dozens of paid articles are written against justice by international media.

For a year now, Veliaj has been following the schemes: removing a lawyer, appointing a lawyer, lawyers getting sick, and many other pretexts just to prevent the judicial process from developing normally.

In the last session, the pretext for postponing the court session was Ajola Xoxa, who stated that due to her health condition after giving birth, she could not attend the sessions and did not want to be represented only by lawyers at the session, but wanted to be present in person.

Thus, the hearing was postponed to July 21, which seems to be another formal date as Veliaj will again use other machinations to postpone the hearings.

His strategy is revealed: Erion Veliaj has decided not to stand trial and is using scenarios to continue indefinitely postponing hearings.

What alibi will he use today to postpone the hearings?/ CNA