Meta case, College rejects itself
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The “Meta” process is turning into a strategy game, but its end seems
predictable. The first signs appeared with the words “judicial economy”,
a term that has been rarely used by the Albanian court lawyers, but
that is expected to change the course of the trial.
The Supreme Court decided in the last session to change the evidence order – especially for judicial economy reasons – by accepting firstly the experts’ assignment and leaving for later the hearing session of the key witness, Dritan Prifti. In today’s session, the Court assigned October 24th as the day when the experts will say their word.
But it remains unknown why the Supreme Court did not assign an earlier date for hearing Prifti, as declared in one of the previous sessions.
The Court will hear on 24 October the expertise of the three Albanian experts, to whom was assigned a list with 18 tasks. The expertise will be made over the camera-clock, the video file and the USB, as required by the lawyers of the former Deputy Prime Minister, Ilir Meta.
The Prosecutor Bujar Sheshi objected these points, asking that the expertise should be made under the Prosecution’s surveillance.
This request was accepted only by the Supreme Court, since every request of the prosecution in this process was rejected. This decision gave the lawyers the right to declare again that the process, according to them, is as political game.
“The camera-clock, as the only physical evidence, is nowhere to be found. This shows that this process is politically staged. The Prosecution has been politically influenced by the Albanian Parliament for removing Mr. Meta’s immunity.
“There will be no expertise for the camera clock, although the court put it on the expert’s disposal”, declared Gezim Veleshnja.
In fact, the Prosecution refused the expertise of the clock, since it could be used by the parties for taking other videos inside it. The new strategy of the lawyers seems to aim a possible attack against Prifti’s credibility as a witness, with the second video that shows Prifti and Leonard Beqiri on a corruption affair.
In an earlier session, the Supreme Court rejected the Prosecution’s request for disqualifying the three experts that will inspect the video file of the Meta-Prifti scandal.
The Prosecution pretended that none of them is licensed as an expert. Their decision on the video will assign the trial’s fate against the former Deputy Prime Minister.
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