The decision of judge Iliriana Olldashi to release Jamarbër Malltez, the son-in-law of former prime minister Berisha, from detention cast strong shadows of doubt on the new justice.
Doubts became even stronger, at the time when SPAK itself doubts and demands that this judge resign, because there is a conflict of interest. According to SPAK, the judge bought a house from the company that built it in the "Partizani" complex, for which Malltezi himself is accused. And according to the media, he bought it at a favorable price.
The judge has not yet revealed the decision to see the reasoning, but for SPAK prosecutors there is something wrong. But even for the opinion, there is something that is not right, starting from the fact that previously these anti-corruption courts have been extremely strict and have not polished the severity of the anti-corruption laws at all.
Former Deputy Minister of the Interior Rovena Voda was sentenced for a crate of fish. While in another case, for the former judge of Kruja, Enkelejda Hoxha, the last hours of the sentence were counted along with the minutes before she was released from prison. The two convicted ladies were not included in the list of untouchables, while Malltezi because of his father-in-law, yes, he is included in this list.
Malltezi spent a month in detention and is now at home, and the judges of the New Justice were much more tolerant towards him, although the "Partizani" file is one of the cases that really created the idea in the public opinion that justice was acting and affecting the untouchables.
Behind this issue stands the one who has been the absolute untouchable, former prime minister Sali Berisha. Whether what happened with the anti-corruption courts is simply a fluke remains to be seen.
Everyone is equal before the law, but the doubt that some are still more equal remains./ TCH