{"id":18179,"date":"2021-07-28T13:40:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T11:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=18179"},"modified":"2021-07-28T14:03:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T12:03:29","slug":"special-court-to-rule-whether-to-release-lushnje-mayor-on-bail-while-pending-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/special-court-to-rule-whether-to-release-lushnje-mayor-on-bail-while-pending-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Former mayor to remain in prison while awaiting trial, appeal court decides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Appeal Court decided to leave the former mayor of Lushnje in prison bail while pending trial on abuse of office charges.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the court responded to Tushe\u2019s request to be released on bail due to medical reasons.<\/p>\n<p>In the request deposited to the court, the mayor claims to be suffering from heart disease, diabetes, gallstones, as well as being allergic to specific foods.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Lushnje was arrested together with some of his subordinates due to a corruptive affair involving an irrigation channel of nearby villages.<\/p>\n<p>The former mayor has been indicted on abuse of office charges, after being arrested in July following an investigation initiated by the Special Structure against Corruption and Organized Crime, known broadly as SPAK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/13\/former-lushnje-mayor-appeals-for-a-more-lenient-sentence\/\">Former Lushnje mayor appeals for a more lenient sentence<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/08\/well-be-summoned-from-spak-wiretap-recording-that-took-lushnje-mayor-behind-bars\/\">\u201cWe\u2019ll be summoned from SPAK\u201d, the wiretap recording that took Lushnje Mayor behind bars<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/06\/arrest-of-lushnjes-mayor-pm-rama-sp-doesnt-cover-for-anyone\/\">\u2018SP doesn\u2019t cover for anyone,\u2019 says PM Rama after arrest of Lushnje mayor<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Appeal Court decided to leave the former mayor of Lushnje in prison bail while pending trial on abuse of office charges. On Wednesday, the court responded to Tushe\u2019s request to be released on bail due to medical reasons. In the request deposited to the court, the mayor claims to be suffering from heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":18183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[150,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Former mayor to remain in prison while awaiting trial, appeal court decides - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/special-court-to-rule-whether-to-release-lushnje-mayor-on-bail-while-pending-trial\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former mayor to remain in prison while awaiting trial, appeal court decides - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Special Appeal Court decided to leave the former mayor of Lushnje in prison bail while pending trial on abuse of office charges. 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