While the Constitutional Court has not yet set a date for the review of the Prime Minister's lawsuit alleging judicial interference in the powers to suspend a cabinet member, the special anti-corruption judge says the opposite.
In the leaked decision of Judge Erjon Çela, it is stated that there is no legal prohibition to decide what SPAK has requested, namely the suspension from office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Infrastructure.
For this, the judge is not only adhering to Article 242 of the Criminal Procedure Code, but also to the Electoral Code. According to the judge, elected persons include members of parliament, mayors and members of the municipal council.
And therefore, as the court considers, the two measures imposed on Belinda Balluku do not prevent the defendant from exercising her functions as an elected member of parliament. The file that TCH has provides details that explain the suspicions that the 3 officials Belinda Balluku, Gentian Gjyli and Erald Elezi are considered collaborators in violating equality in tenders, one for the Llogora tunnel and the other for lot 4 of the Grand Ring Road.
For this, the file refers to a series of conversations conducted on the Signal application, and obtained from the expert's phone of the former director of ARRSH Evis Berberi.
Among the messages revealed in the decision are the names of MPs such as Lefter Geshtenja, whose firm is ordered not to take on any work, but also suggestions to host a meeting with well-known businessmen such as Ilir Shtufi. The selection of economic operators in the two public procurements according to SPAK so far is suspected to have been carried out in a predetermined manner.
SPAK adds that in one case, Minister Balluku also mentions the moment when the names of the tender winners should be published. From the verification of the conditions of the three security measures, from the notification of the decision, each of the defendants has five days to file a special appeal to file objections./ TCH