{"id":30399,"date":"2022-01-28T13:43:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T12:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=30399"},"modified":"2022-01-29T10:19:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T09:19:05","slug":"high-court-leaves-in-jail-former-public-tv-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/high-court-leaves-in-jail-former-public-tv-director\/","title":{"rendered":"High Court leaves in jail former public TV director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thoma Gellci, the general director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtsh.al\/\">Albanian Radio National Television (RTSH)<\/a>, lost a bid to get a more lenient punishment from Albania&#8217;s High Court.<\/p>\n<p>Albania&#8217;s top court upheld the previous decision of the First Instance Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Gellci will stay behind bars until investigations conclude.<\/p>\n<p>The former general director of RTSH was arrested a few months ago, over a fraudulent tender race, and abuse of office.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, he signed a tender worth 86 million Albanian Lek to purchase equipment for the public agriculture TV channel.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations revealed serious legal violations with public procurement procedures, landing Gellci a charge for abuse of office.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/09\/19\/newly-established-government-agency-mia-sparks-controversy-with-critics-calling-it-a-black-omen-for-free-speech\/\">Newly established government agency sparks controversy as critics call it a \u2018black omen for free speech\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoma Gellci, the general director of the Albanian Radio National Television (RTSH), lost a bid to get a more lenient punishment from Albania&#8217;s High Court. Albania&#8217;s top court upheld the previous decision of the First Instance Court of Appeal. Gellci will stay behind bars until investigations conclude. The former general director of RTSH was arrested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":30401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[270,356,357,151,355],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>High Court leaves in jail former public TV director - 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\/high-court-leaves-in-jail-former-public-tv-director\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"High Court leaves in jail former public TV director - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thoma Gellci, the general director of the Albanian Radio National Television (RTSH), lost a bid to get a more lenient punishment from Albania&#8217;s High Court. 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