The case over eight million euros in damage tied to former deputy prime minister Artan Grubi and fugitive Perperim Bajrami - known as the "State Lottery case" - is moving at unusually slow speed. VLEN is asking who has an interest in the delay.

Context: Grubi had been on the run for over a year. On 23 February 2026 he was arrested at the Blace border crossing and is currently under house arrest. Bajrami is still on the run. The case links politics, business and the former DUI leadership - and Grubi, as the once-powerful official and "living DUI archive," sits at the center of all those connections.

"The 'Grubi' case must not end up in a drawer," VLEN says in its statement. The party links this case to Islam Abazi and poses the open question: who benefits from Grubi staying silent? That question has several possible answers, and none of them flatter the political system that has tolerated this state of affairs for years.

Why the slowness? There are theories. Overloaded courts. The complexity of the case. Protection of specific actors. VLEN argues it's easy to recognize the delay isn't accidental - and that if one thread is pulled, too many connections that aren't known to the public would come into view.

For Balkan politics, this is a textbook example of how big cases can go quiet. Not "end up in a drawer" - that's dramatic - they just move at such slow speed that by the time anything is decided, the public has already forgotten. That's the quiet effect of justice delayed, not denied.