Procrastination of court proceedings/ Will Erion Veliaj and Plarent Ndreca postpone today's session as well?

2026-04-29 09:27:00, Aktualitet CNA

Procrastination of court proceedings/ Will Erion Veliaj and Plarent Ndreca

Today, the next court session will take place in the Appeal of the Court of Criminal Appeals against the arrested mayor of Tirana, who is facing 13 charges for 5 serious criminal offenses, Erion Veliaj, who is being defended by the defendant's lawyer Plarent Ndreca.

The arrested mayor of Tirana, accused of corruption, abuse of office, laundering the proceeds of crime, concealing assets and bringing prohibited items into the cell, has appealed the court's decision to suspend his pre-trial detention.

The suspension of pre-trial detention terms was taken on March 24, 2026, because there was a strategy by Erion Veliaj, who since July 24, 2025 has been indefinitely postponing hearings.

The delays in court proceedings have been continuing for 9 months, since July 2025. Erion Veliaj has used various tactics to postpone the hearings, as he is afraid of facing justice, the evidence and facts that have been found against him.

61,000 pages have been submitted for Veliaj, proving with facts the accusations brought against him by prosecutors.

Since the day he was arrested, Erion Veliaj has evaded justice and has led successive attacks on prosecutors and judges using the media outlets paid by his brother or the incinerators.

His attack schemes have gone as far as lobbying $220,000, filling reports with fraud and lies, all of which have been debunked, revealing the scenarios of the mayor and the media paid by him to exert pressure on justice./ CNA