
Former head of the Albanian Anti-Corruption Agency (ARAS), Evis Berberi, will continue to remain in prison. The Constitutional Court today rejected his request to revoke the security measure of "prison arrest".
Meanwhile, the Constitutional Court has not examined his claims that the taking of evidence from the cell phone was illegal and this made it unusable.
The barber should address this matter to the Court of First Instance first.
Berberi was arrested on March 14, 2024. A month earlier, officers from the National Bureau of Investigation (BKH) conducted a search of his apartment, when he was still director of the ARRSH, seizing 4 telephones, various computer equipment, and a number of documents.
It was the materials obtained from these phones, especially that of Berber's wife, Adela Ruko, that became a gold mine for SPAK.
The evidence found there led to several successive investigations, including that of Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku, who was accused of violating equality in tenders in the Llogara tunnel, under investigation for 7 lots of the Grand Ring Road, and suspected of 3 other tenders.
The blow that Berberi dealt to the legality of the seized evidence, including the communications on his phones, could also hit the investigations into other files, including the 'Balluku' file.