If he was an MP, this fact would have been made public three years ago, but he was protected by his job as Supreme Court Judge.

Thanza has declared at the Vetting Law application form that he hasn’t been convicted about anything in the past. He justified this act by saying that his lawyer had guaranteed him that it was unnecessary, as long as he could obtain a clean certificate of his criminal records from Italy.

Bursting into tears, the Judge, who is also a university professor, insists that he had never stolen anything. It was his sister in law who had been involved in the robbery of a supermarket because she needed money for her sick son, the judge’s nephew.

The judge said he sacrificed his career for her, since she was the only caretaker for his nephew, who, he said, now is 28 thanks to the medical care that she provided for him.

However, Thanza has also been under investigation for corruption. There are a series of cases that have been closed suspiciously by him for lack of evidence. He explains that the police misunderstood a meeting in a café that he had with the wife of a suspect, who happened to be a friend of his family.

The Judge had also declared that he had not received gifts more expensive than 500 EUR, but he had forgotten to declare a garage of 23 square meters he owned in Tirana, which had been gifted to him by a company that had been part of a case he was working on.

There are inconsistencies with the contracts for buying two apartments, one in Tirana and one in Shkoder, and a duplex at the Lalzi Bay.

For all of these facts, Thanza accused the Independent Commission of not calculating his revenues properly.

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