Lawyer Ylli Manjani has made a strong reaction to the news that has been circulating in recent days, that judges of the Republic are being forced to make decisions against their convictions, on "hot issues" that are currently occurring, as they are being blackmailed by SPAK prosecutors.
"The use of investigative data obtained in the investigations against Ergys Agas for blackmail is called a crime. Even organized in a mafia style. Decisions made under blackmail are unjust. The blackmailer is a mafia-type criminal. Anyone who does so is called a mafia member," he writes.
From the rumors circulating in recent days in Tirana circles, it has emerged that a judge was blackmailed due to materials that emerged in the file administered by SPAK for businessman Ergys Agasi, and the judge was forced to change his decision.
"If it is true that judges and prosecutors are being blackmailed with the investigative data of the "Agasi" file, the act is serious and mafia-like. Even when this is done by justice officials, it is still mafia-like. Court decisions, where their judges are shown blackmailing material, are unjust. They are mafia-like," he emphasizes.
According to Ylli Manjani, blackmail in itself is a mafia act and much more serious than the evil that the blackmailed person may have committed. The lawyer and former Minister of Justice explains that the responsibility for the acts administered in the file belongs to the body that administers them due to the investigation, therefore SPAK.
"I don't know what videos, photos or phone conversations SPAK has in that file, but their legal use means only in that process, and not against anyone else outside of it. Any other use is called blackmail. It's called mafia. Especially if the undertones about judges changing their minds and making decisions against what they think are true," he concludes.
In recent days, various media outlets have reported that there are confidential reports according to which a judge was blackmailed regarding an intimate video of him, so he changed his decision in the courtroom, not expressing what he believed, but influenced by blackmail.
Ylli Manjani's full note:
Blackmail is a mafia crime
The use of investigative data obtained in the investigations against Ergys Agas for blackmail is called a crime. Even organized in a mafia style.
Decisions made under blackmail are unfair.
A blackmailer is a mafia-type criminal. Anyone who does this is called a mafia.
Be careful, blackmail is not corruption, nor illegal influence, nor abuse of office. You can kiss the latter and put them on your forehead in front of mafia blackmail.
If it is true that judges and prosecutors are being blackmailed with the investigative data of the "Agasi" file, the act is serious and mafia-like. Even when this is done by justice officials, it is still mafia-like.
Court decisions, where their judges are shown blackmailing material, are unjust. They are mafia-like.
I understand that many people wonder why those judges and prosecutors have made themselves so vulnerable to blackmail. I am not justifying them in any way, on the contrary, I invite them to resign from their positions as soon as possible.
First Constitutional Court judges.
Vetting judges, judges and prosecutors who know they are susceptible to blackmail should resign before they are caught off guard.
But blackmail itself is a mafia act. Much more serious than the evil that the blackmailed person may have committed.
I don't know what videos, photos or phone conversations SPAK has in that file, but their legal use means only in that process, and not against anyone else outside of it. Any other use is called blackmail. It's called mafia.
Especially if the undertones about judges changing their minds and making decisions against what they think are true.
Now it's up to us to ask Gysi to release those videos himself so that their "monopolized" use by those who administer them due to the investigation will cease.
With that, the price of political and media speculators also drops...
It would actually be good if those videos, photos, and conversations were released so that another vetting could be done in the justice system and, perhaps, we could also understand who requested "help" to pass the vetting...
That nothing fair is built with blackmail.