
The administration of the Assembly has cut off all financial benefits to deputy Sali Berisha, who risks losing his mandate in the middle of June, as he is under "house arrest" from December 30, 2023 by decision of the GJKKO and request of SPAK.
The Assembly has cut off Berisha's financial benefits that belong to every deputy, including the salary, since the former prime minister did not participate in any of the plenary sessions, the meetings of the Parliamentary Commissions or any other activity related to him as a legislator. The decision to stop payments is related to the decision of GJKKO.
The financial measure against Berisha by the administration of the Assembly has been applied since January 2024, perhaps as a calculation for the time when he may lose the mandate of the deputy, with an absence in the work of the Assembly of 6 months.
"Referring to the status of deputies and decision no. 114/2014 "On the treatment of MPs", as amended MP Sali Berisha is not paid benefits such as fuel and telephone due to the measure of personal insurance decided by the Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime, with decision no. 520 dated 30.12.2023". This was the first financial suspension that was applied by the Assembly to Berisha.
With a simple calculation, if the former Prime Minister does not manage to participate in the remaining sessions until June 11, he completes the full time of his absence in the Assembly, which means that the procedure of losing the mandate of the deputy begins.
Berisha has been under house arrest since December 30, the day when the judge of GJKKO, Irena Gjoka, signed the decision to apply the measure of "house arrest" to the former Prime Minister, while previously he had strongly opposed two of the measures that had established SPAK, obligation to appear and ban on leaving the country.
Berisha claimed that the measures were unconstitutional, since SPAK had not previously received permission from the Assembly to limit his activity as a deputy.
And after SPAK requested authorization from the Assembly, which was approved, the Special Prosecutor's Office decided to apply a more coercive measure, that of house arrest, which has been upheld by all levels of justice, including the Supreme Court.
SPAK is investigating the procedures followed for the privatization of the former "Partizani" complex, while initially arresting the son-in-law of former Prime Minister Sali Berisha, Jamarbër Malltezi, for whom the GJKKO Appeal decided to change the security measure from "arrest to prison " as the judge Irena Gjoka had signed, under "house arrest". SPAK is investigating Berisha and Malltez for criminal offenses related to money laundering and corruption, committed in cooperation.