What is the truth behind SSACOC’s second request to Parliament regarding Belinda Balluku?

SSACOC has sent Parliament a second request for Balluku’s arrest.

According to sources within the Albanian Parliament, the Special Prosecution Office submitted a second, undisclosed request 15 days ago for the removal of former Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku’s parliamentary mandate and her arrest, based on new charges related to the seizure of a villa in Dhërmi, suspected to be a hidden asset belonging to Balluku. This comes six months after SSACOC’s first request, which was rejected on March 12 during a plenary session with 82 votes from the ruling majority.

According to the same sources, the situation has caused tensions within the Parliament’s administration, including pressure to dismiss the person who officially registered the request. However, as of today, there has been no official announcement regarding this request on either the Special Prosecution Office’s website or that of the Special Court.

In another development, yesterday the head of the Democratic Party’s parliamentary group, Gazment Bardhi, also reacted. He called on SSACOC not to act with double standards. According to him, SPAK’s seizure of the villa in Dhërmi worsens Belinda Balluku’s legal position and should compel the Special Prosecution to act immediately by addressing Parliament to lift her mandate and request her arrest, describing this as a test of equality before the law.

Therefore, based on Bardhi’s statement, the justice system has not yet submitted a second request for the arrest of the former Deputy Prime Minister. Nevertheless, Bardhi’s statement itself, without any immediate trigger, raises further suspicions about a lack of transparency.

What remains difficult to explain in this entire situation is not the possible silence of the ruling majority and Prime Minister Edi Rama, who has tied his own political fate to that of Belinda Balluku but rather the silence of SSACOC.

What is the truth? Does a second request sent 15 days ago to the Albanian Parliament actually exist? If so, why has SPAK not made it public? What could explain the lack of transparency from the Special Prosecution regarding the submission of a second request for Belinda Balluku’s arrest? Is the prosecution’s public silence giving the ruling majority time to delay matters until the next parliamentary session begins after the summer recess?

Just as in the first case, SSACOC and its head, Klodian Braho, have a public obligation to be transparent about whether such an important decision, a request submitted to Parliament for Belinda Balluku’s arrest, exists or not.

“KORÇA BOOM”