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1. SPAK closes investigations into Elvis Roshi/Former mayor of Kavaja officially under indictment
SPAK has communicated the charge of abuse of office to Elvis Roshi, the former Mayor of Kavaja.
Roshi has been investigated by the Special Prosecution for the period he headed the Municipality, while in the last parliamentary elections, he was monitored for influence in the elections, as one of his relatives was running for MP, on the open list of the coalition led by Sali Berisha's Democrats.
Roshi is being investigated for a series of tenders organized by the Municipality of Kavaja during his time as mayor. These include tenders for the city's infrastructure, including the center, as well as for decorative trees. According to SPAK, the investigation shows that the damage caused as a result of tender abuse amounts to 33 million lek.
SPAK launched investigations into Roshi in 2024, while the former Mayor has appeared several times at the Special Prosecution Office where he has been questioned by the prosecutor and BKH agents.
The tenders for which SPAK has investigated the former Mayor of Kavaja belong to the period January 2013-December 2014.
Investigations have revealed that in at least 3 tenders, the bidder with the lowest price was unfairly disqualified as a result of incorrect bid calculation.
The investigations began after audit reports from the Albanian Supreme Audit Institution, initially from the Durrës Prosecutor's Office, and then passed on to SPAK.
2. “Convicted in Greece”/ The fate of Irena Gjoka in the hands of the High Court of Justice
Irena Gjoka, who for a 3-year term, headed the Court Against Organized Crime and Corruption,
results in the conditions of prohibition of the exercise of her functions as a judge. This is at least based on the verifications carried out by the General Prosecutor's Office, which forwarded the information to the Supreme Court of Justice, based on a letter that the Council had previously sent to the central prosecution body.
Based on the verifications of the General Prosecutor's Office, it appears that Irena Gjoka (Shpata, Maneku), who for months was at the center of the accusations of former Prime Minister Sali Berisha, who was the first to denounce a conviction of hers in Greece, which the judge had not reflected in the decriminalization form, risks being left outside the justice system.
It is now up to the Supreme Court of Kosovo, as the institution with the competence to assess the judge, to make a decision on what will happen to the member of the Special Court. Based on the decriminalization law, Irena Gjoka's career is interrupted because she did not declare the sentence on the form. If this happens, Gjoka will be the first judge of the Special Court of Kosovo, who, after passing the vetting, will be removed from the justice system.
3. QSUT without lights, psychiatry reacts harshly/ Institutional crime! In resuscitation, seconds kill
Psychiatrist Neli Demi has reacted strongly after the QSUT was left without electricity on Monday evening.
In a reaction on social media, the doctor writes that the hospital without electricity cannot be called a technical defect, but an institutional crime.
According to the doctor, the red line was crossed last night and the fact that there were no casualties due to the lack of electricity was not a success of the system, but blind luck.
"The fact that resuscitation, emergency and vital services at the Mother Teresa University Hospital Center have been left without electricity is an institutional crime, not a "technical defect". This is a red line crossed. In no normal place: resuscitation, intensive therapy, operating rooms are left without electricity, ever. Not for seconds. Not for minutes. Not even "by chance".
If patients are being taken out into the corridors, this means that: backup systems do not really exist, or are out of order, or have never been tested, or managers do not trust them. Any of these would be a criminal failure in the management of vital services.
4. Trump's "Peace Board", Kokalari-Rama / Have you forgiven Sazan, or will you pay 1 billion USD?
Evi Kokalari, the Albanian-American activist, has reacted through a post on social networks regarding the invitation that US President Donald Trump has sent to Prime Minister Edi Rama, to become part of the "Peace Board" for Gaza. And while some world leaders have rejected the condition of paying 1 billion dollars in cash to have a seat on the Board, in Albania the invitation is being treated as a trophy that the Prime Minister has received from the US President.
Kokalari in her reaction states that "if Edi Rama has not signed to give 1 billion dollars in cash in the first year, understand that he has invested abundantly by "forgiving" Sazan and other areas. Also, there is an agreement with the Emirates for the 2 billion euro project on the coast of Durrës, which is criticized for lack of transparency and fiscal favorability".
"If Rama really believes that these "idiotic acts" will raise his values, let me remind him that there are no medals or idiotic contracts that can change his reputation damaged by corruption allegations.
As such, it is extremely necessary for Rama to urgently make public what he has signed with this invitation, and above all, to make public the agreements with the Emirates, which are cooperation contracts that he cannot approve and sign himself without going through Parliament," writes Kokalari.
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