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Lawyer Artan Gjermeni states that the SPAK file against the Mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj, does not have sufficient evidence and under these conditions cannot be passed for trial at the GJKKO, as the Special Prosecution Office claims.
SPAK has filed several charges against the mayor of Tirana, and has forwarded the file for trial to the GJKKO, where preliminary hearings have been held for several sessions. There have been several remote exchanges between SPAK and the mayor's legal defense lawyers regarding whether or not Veliaj has been given the documents in the file to familiarize himself with.
Gjermeni, who resigned as the lawyer for Tirana Mayor Erion Veliaj after the court rejected his client's request to be familiar with the case files, told News24 that there is no causal link.
" I have received a full perception of the level of evidence. Is there sufficient evidence to support the charge for sending the case to trial? For me, there is not. There must be a causal connection between the specific action, the signing of a routine invoice, and a corresponding consequence. So, the causal connection is missing.
"That's all I can say today about the promise we gave to SPAK that we will not release any detailed information ," said Gjermeni.
Explaining his decision to resign from the Mayor's defense, Gjermeni stated that "I resigned at this stage of the process also as a reaction to the non-acceptance of an elementary legal request, for the mayor to be familiar with the acts of the file."
" When this request was rejected, I reacted like this. I stayed in the courtroom until the end of the trial, and on January 5 I will be in court again, until the other attorney who has been appointed by the court is available to articulate her case for Veliaj. The moment she articulates and covers, at that moment my functions cease."
I will then consult with him on whether we will continue the cooperation or not. The most important thing in the preliminary hearing is to guarantee the procedural rights of the Mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj. The law provides that the case can be dismissed on the merits for lack of evidence, but a decision of the Supreme Court 2 years ago came out above the law and states that the case cannot be dismissed in the preliminary hearing without analyzing the evidence.
If there is any monitoring throughout the Republic, are there any cases dismissed in a preliminary hearing by judges as a filter for the investigation? Zero. There are none.
Either the defendant must die or an amnesty must be issued. The law no longer applies to dismissing the case at a preliminary hearing. The Supreme Court resolved it in a way that is, in my opinion, clearly unfair, and here are the consequences for the entire system. The preliminary hearing, when it was established, had a purpose, the investigation filter. This filter is now missing, it no longer exists, the Supreme Court did it, for me they made a serious mistake ," said lawyer Gjermeni.
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