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Tirana Mayor Erion Veliaj left the courtroom where the preliminary hearing is taking place, which should determine whether or not the SPAK file in his charge will go to trial.
"Since you are not listening to me, I am leaving the courtroom," said the Mayor, while earlier he had requested the exclusion of Judge Etleva Deda, arguing that she did not give him the right to effectively defend himself.
The GJKKO also rejected a request from the chiefly appointed lawyer, Valentina Teodorescu, who requested a postponement of the hearing, as she had not consulted the mayor about the investigative acts.
Judge Etleva Deda has decided that the hearing will proceed to the final conclusions, considering the defense phase to be exhausted.
Along with Veliaj, SPAK has also named his wife, Ajola Xoxa, as defendants, as well as 28 other individuals and companies.
SPAK has listed 13 charges against Veliaj, such as passive corruption, money laundering, failure to declare assets, abuse of office, and bringing items into prison.
The majority of the accusations are of passive corruption committed in 9 cases, in relation to several companies that SPAK says received irregular benefits in the form of monetary sums and real estate, which in turn received construction permits and benefited from public funds from the Municipality of Tirana.
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