The former mayor of Kukës, Safet Gjici, asks the high court to declare him innocent.
In the recourse available to TCH, Gjici claims that he has fallen into the trap of political opponents and that the sexual affair with Alma Kaci is neither abuse of office nor corruption.
Safet Gjici tells the court that she had intercourse with Kaci of her own accord and that the video recording made public has not violated any legal relationship except the moral and ethical one that the former mayor of Kukës remembers has already been punished. the former mayor found guilty by the anti-corruption court of the first instance for the charge of abuse of office referring to the video scandal that showed the sexual relationship in his office, by the appeal he was found guilty not of abuse of office but of corruption.
Opposing the final sentence that he considers corrupt through a sexual affair, Gjici insists that he neither promised nor accepted any favor. in the appeal, his lawyer Përparim Kulluri recalls that there is no official request filed in the protocol, nor an alleged tender, and in these circumstances there is no way corruption or conflict of interest exists.
This appeal opposes the conclusion of the special appeal that, based on the insistence of SPAK, sentenced Gjici to three years in prison. Arrested in the summer of 2023, after the publication of the video scandal in his office, Gjici accuses Alma Kaci of studying the ground to trap him by provoking him according to him.
On the other hand, for these actions, Alma Kaci, who was found guilty in the first instance for the charge of prostitution, on appeal, the woman was convicted for another crime, that of active corruption./TCH
