On the same day that former heads of institutions that administered public tenders worth millions of euros go to SPAK, give statements and return home, Greta Gjoci (Pepa), former call center operator and mother of a 4-month-old baby, is in Pojska prison together with her child.
This is the "new reform" of justice, where SPAK prosecutors spare Gentian Gjyli, Erald Elezin and, above all, Belinda Balluku, who have stolen millions of euros by imposing security measures and mandatory reporting, while becoming aggressive with ordinary citizens, mothers with babies and journalists.
The contrast is stark, the paradox even greater. On the one hand, former heads of public institutions, accused of tender issues, appear before SPAK and return home. On the other hand, Greta Gjoci (Pepa), former call center operator and mother of a 4-month-old baby, is in prison with her child.
Former head of the Albanian Competition Authority (ARRSH) Gentian Gjyli has been charged with "violation of equality of tender participants", committed twice and in collaboration. He appeared again this Wednesday at SPAK, but is currently under a "compulsory appearance" measure, after the GJKKO earlier lifted his "house arrest".
The former head of KESH, Erald Elezi, is in the same situation, also involved in tender investigations and currently out of prison.
But this makes the contrast with Greta Pepa even more obvious.
The appeal of the GJKKO upheld her sentence of 6 years and 8 months in prison for computer fraud and participation in a structured criminal group. According to data published by Vox News, she had worked as a call center operator, lived in a rented apartment and had been under house arrest since July 2023.
Meanwhile, Gjyli, Elezi and Balluku, who are swimming in money, are today under light security measures, thanks to the tolerance of SPAK prosecutor Dritan Prençi.
So, when it comes to former directors being investigated for tender procedures, the system has found the legal space to keep them under obligation to appear.
But when a mother with a four-month-old baby is facing justice, it seems that the legal space for humanizing the execution of the sentence has not produced the same result.
The Code of Criminal Procedure provides that the court may postpone the execution of the sentence when the convicted person has a child under one year old. This does not declare the mother innocent or pardon her sentence. It simply gives the court the opportunity to protect the child's interests.
Greta Pepa's baby has not opened a call center, has not deceived anyone, and has not been convicted by any court.
Yet today she finds herself behind the gates of a prison. This is the paradox that the "new justice" must explain.
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