Yesterday the trial began against the former boss of the company “Gjallica”, which owes 7,566 creditors the sum of 390 million USD “Gjallca” lawyer: “I want Sali Berisha, Blerim Çela, Aleksandër Meksi and Ridvan Bode as witnesses in court” page 8

Yesterday, at the end of the daily information briefing in a central executive setting, the four anti-drug intelligence units, the anti-economic one, the one for the fight against money laundering and the homicide unit, immediately began identifying Arben’s name. Thus, the prosecutorial bodies followed the thread of the investigation in every observation. In truth, yesterday’s event was only the offspring of a new story, a reaction from the right, but behind the development of the surprise lies Arben’s name. To find his name, some Albanian prosecutors have even been seen under arches by the “gje-reteroskopi”. In any case, somewhere on the side from the right-wing news outlets, it has now produced legal revelations that are nothing more than a task that may be evidence. The cause of compromise, under suspicion from the past, happened once for a procession, many times with the deceased. It comes from politics, the place of the name dictated by politics, marks presence in this matter. The phrase with which we and some officials defend ourselves in cases against the “pyramid schemes” suggests that the “system” is guilty. Yes, indeed, when responsibility is shifted, one is dealing with an unnamed enemy. In this way, the institutional office’s team, which for a long time has spared the replacement of names and personal responsibility, has handled the matter in its own communicative way. Therefore, in this case, no one is bothering to mention his name. It is a matter that, by turning as an accusation against the person charged with guilt, continues to appear as a game of language, under procedural standards in a climate of media entanglements. In this sense, the climate of afternoon reactions, which are tied to the event, is not simple. Once again, the issue is the trial and not such speculation. On the contrary, one must wait until the court’s conclusion. Likewise, the place of this question in the media resembles at the same time a place where punishment is sought in order to move to another legal order. Thus, yesterday’s statement, spoken publicly and once again supplemented by several comments, was the next attempt to name a political situation. The prosecutor’s stance of investigating this case and reaching the argument of what constitutes punishment will, of course, take its own path toward public judgment. In the end, where the necessary evidence is found, responsibility must also emerge. As long as the country needs precise names, it also needs a prosecutor’s office that finds everything, but hides nothing.

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