By Andi Bushati/ What if Jamarbri ate plums behind Saliu's back?

2023-10-22 13:25:00, Opinione Andi Bushati

By Andi Bushati/ What if Jamarbri ate plums behind Saliu's back?

Analyst Andi Bushati

The arrest of Berisha's son-in-law, Jamarbër Malltezi, and the restriction of freedom for the former prime minister, has once again brought to the surface the sponsored parrots of justice reform, who have loudly announced the end of the era of impunity. In fact, the question that is asked is different: has impunity ended, or justice itself, which should treat everyone as equal before the law?

Of course, the issue of the privatization of the Partizani club, for which Berisha's son-in-law was handcuffed and almost arrested (only the age over 75 favored him for milder measures) is a story that needs to go to the end. I have personally denounced the alienation of a sports facility and its return to a construction site, during the time when Berisha was in power, and I continue to think that together with events like Gërdeci, or January 21, it is one of the stories that has tarnished it the eight-year government of the Democrats. But, having said that, it seems that SPAK and the Special Court had at least double standards and more political motivation in their attitude towards Sali Berisha.

SPAK lists the accusations against Berisha and Malltez / Suspicions of corruption and benefits from the privatization of "Partizan"
October 22, 11:18

Let's explain it briefly. Between 2008-2012, a union of old owner families privatized the Partizani sports club, which until then belonged to the Ministry of Defense. Jamarbër Malltezi is in charge of their legal representation. The process is carried out by a number of institutions at high speed and it is alleged that employees who did not want to sign are pressured. In conclusion, 17 towers are erected on this plot of land, where it is suspected that Malltezi took more shares than he is entitled to as the owner, since he was rewarded for the influence he had as the son-in-law of the head of the government.

Every Albanian who reads these lines accepts it with his mouth full: Well of course it happened like this, since he had the prime minister's father-in-law in favor. It seems that SPAK has followed the same logic, rushing to accuse Berisha of passive corruption and demanding from him an obligation to appear and the obstacle to travel abroad.

In fact, in a normal country this should happen. But with one change, this standard had to be applied to all...

Property, bank accounts and shares in 3 companies/ What was seized from Jamarbër Malltez
October 22, 11:47

If Berisha is suspected that for this file the entire administration and the political part of the ministries acted under his pressure, isn't this exactly the fable for which Edi Rama is accused at the incinerators, concessions in health, or elsewhere?

Herein lies, in fact, the big crunch. In the case of the prime minister who is in power, SPAK has adopted the latter's alibi, that the perpetrators ate plums and pears behind his back. So that Edi Rama is clean, but his accomplices betrayed him on the way.

Whereas, for the prime minister who has fallen from power, who is also the leader of the opposition, the box is different: Nothing can happen below, without the order of the one who has the rock and the nut in his hand. So the same unit of measurement that cleans the first serves to penalize the second. No one from the justice system has thought of the ridiculous alibi used for Rama, that the son-in-law may have conspired behind the father-in-law's back.

SPAK took concrete steps/ What is the file of the former Partizani complex
October 21, 21:08

And it doesn't end there. In matters like that of incinerators, for example, the theft has already been verified, the money has been found where it went, and again the prime minister is not affected. In the case of the "Partizani" file, the abuse is still an investigation process, but that's enough to go straight to the former head of government.

In the first case, the main protagonists are left to escape the prison, while Malltezi is handcuffed in one of the most public places in the country, at the Rinas airport, and filmed to make an example.

In other cases, such as Tahiri or Ahmetaj, the parliamentary procedures to clear the way for the prosecutors take longer and longer, while for Berisha, the constitution is violated, taking the decision to restrict freedom, without the approval of the assembly.

"The arrest of Malltez, without any basis"/ Berisha: He was never questioned
October 21, 21:36

If Rama didn't even dare to be questioned once, Berisha is accused and has to hand over his passport, is anyone afraid that he might do what all his enemies actually wish, escape.

If you add here the names of the Spakists who made the decision, the coordination between the political part and the prosecutor's office to carry out the action, the way the media were supplied, it is clear that the scale of justice has been terribly unbalanced.

Therefore, you must be sold head to toe, to announce the opening of a new page in history for this justice with two standards. The "Partizani" file, the necessity of the real disclosure of which is not even discussed, cannot serve as an illustration for this ugly fable. Before marking the end of impunity, it is reinforcing another dilemma: are we dealing with a justice vulnerable to the most powerful, or on the contrary, we have arrived at a new stage, when the latter are using it as tool to hit rivals.