FLASH
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In Albania, public opinion does not have any very pretentious demands towards SPAK; it simply seeks to register the villas, apartments, vehicles, money and material goods that politicians own. Which people know, talk about, demand that the state, which already forgives even those who created SPAK, seize them...
When Donald Lu in 2016, brought the metaphor of "The Untouchables" of Brian de Palma, as a story that had just begun in Albania, he was ridiculed. Even more than that, he was lynched, attacked, insulted and persecuted even in Kyrgyzstan, where he served as the US ambassador.
It had never happened that Kyrgyzstan and the events in that distant country became the subject of television panels in Tirana. In 2016, it was the time of the judicial reform as a draft, where there was talk of SPAK, a prosecutor's office that would investigate high-ranking officials and politicians, only on paper.
No one in the dinner shows addressed how this new justice would be, how it would be possible that there will be prosecutors who can investigate powerful people.
But endless broadcasts were made at the time about Venice drafts, attacks on ambassadors without ever calling them to give their version, and things like that, which turned out to be mere noise to cover the big news. What a new justice was starting, which would be as independent as possible from politics.
Years passed, and another US ambassador, Yuri Kim, came to Tirana. Which constantly talked about "the end of impunity", about the crack in the shell that the Albanian untouchables had created over the years. Even Yuri Kim, like Donald Lu, Romana Vlahuti or Luigi Soreca, what they didn't say. They have even said so many things about them that have never been said by these media circles about Albanian politicians.
Here we are today. All that was forewarned happened. The wall of political inviolability has really fallen in Tirana. SPAK has already created a long record of proactive criminal activity against politicians and officials. But again, this effort of the special prosecutors has not "satiated" the Albanian public.
There are endless complaints, resentments, criticisms, accusations, thoughts and feelings that will never stop. But in this context, i.e. that of inviolability, there is an Albanian standard or model that is completely different from those that have happened in other countries. We are talking about judicial anti-corruption.
The now legendary anti-corruption investigation in Italy, called "Clean Hands" that overthrew a "Republic" in Italy, the Second Republic, investigated and brought to trial the heads of the country's top politics.
Andreoti, Crax, Forlan, and many, many others. It started as an investigation into illegal financing of parties and managed to get to corruption and bribes.
But there is one thing. None of these subjects of the group of Milanese prosecutors, even though they were proven to have violated the law, did not live in "megaluxury". They didn't have endless apartments in the capital, villas and resorts on the sea, land and land in tourist areas, industries and businesses that brought endless money to them. Hidden accounts in tax havens that circulated staggering sums.
In Albania, public opinion does not have any very pretentious demands towards SPAK; it simply seeks to register the villas, apartments, vehicles, money and material goods that politicians own. Which people know, talk about, demand that the state, which has already thanked those who created SPAK, seize them. At least.
The media, but especially politics, would do well to simply take a simple photo of where the Albanian political elite live, how they live and how much they spend to live.
A simple and uncomplicated vetting that will have to be done first by public opinion - that is, the media, and then let SPAK find the source of the money.
Chances are it won't happen when it hasn't. Here it is easier to make a fake montage like Babalja than to find out where the director got the money to produce the film with the same title.
However, impunity has declined. And people, maybe from tomorrow, will post pictures of the luxury villas and apartments of the politicians who finance the noise to stop the storm. How long can it take?
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