Although the Special Court of Appeals decided to return former Minister of Environment, Lefter Koka, to prison in connection with the Tirana incinerator affair, this decision remains unexecuted, as he has been abroad for nearly 4 and a half months. Regarding this fact, the former minister's lawyer Maksim Sota explained that his client has shown health problems since he was in prison and after being released in December, he went abroad to receive more specialized treatment and medication.

Sota said that the decision of the Special Appeal has been notified to Koka and that he will return as soon as he completes his treatment. Former Minister Koka was sentenced on April 16, 2025 by the First Instance to 2 years in prison for abuse of office in collaboration with the proceedings of the Tirana incinerator affair. The court also ordered the termination of the security measure and his release in this matter with the argument that the sentence was consumed during detention, but two other decisions on the Elbasan and Fier concession contracts prevented his release.

Koka was released in December by the Durrës Court, after it was deemed that he had served the sentences imposed on him. During the trial in the Appeal Court, the prosecutor requested that the trial for Koka be partially repeated, requesting a recalculation of the sentence. The Special Court of Appeal accepted the prosecutor's request and decided on Thursday to overturn the part of the First Instance decision regarding the termination of the security measure, from which Koka should serve the remainder of his sentence.