Laws not to blame for corruption

“The Albanian lawmakers could do more about this issue and build a suitable legal infrastructure, so that we can stop corrupted people from entering, or people who have been consumed in the administration, including the judiciary. This would eliminate every chance of theirs to maneuver into the system and profit from it”, Rakipi declared.

As an expert, Rakipi declared that corruption is spread in the public administration same as in the judiciary.

“The issue becomes even more sensible when it is about the judiciary, because the nature of the judiciary, which is to bring justice and failing to deliver it causes pain twice. As a level it has included all state structures equally, and I don’t see any difference”, Rakipi declared.

“80% of the Albanian citizens believe that judges are plunged into corruption, but the HCJ values all judges with ‘very good’. For Arben Rakipi, both evaluations stand, because judges take money not only to give unjust decisions, but even to give justice, and from the technical point of view, their verdicts are according to the law.

“Practice shows that verdicts that could have been taken in unjust ways could even be according to the law, because parties are obliged to have access to rights through corruption, and there’s nothing strange here”, Rakipi declared.

For the former Prosecutor, there should be a central core to investigate the corrupted people, since local prosecutions and bars cannot make justice, due to their acquaintances.

“This would leave them free to implement the law far from circles that have relations of friendship, which in Albania happen everyday. I have always supported this as a solution, and this would make it possible for a national structure to have access and competency in the entire territory and treat several criminal cases”, Rakipi declared.

Is there hope that the situation of the judiciary will change in Albania? Rakipi thinks that yes, but this would demand punishment victims.

“The need for fight against corruption and for improving the situation would demand its own victims, in the individual sense, but they could serve as hope for recovering the moral of the judiciary and of our country in general”, Rakipi underlined.

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