Spartak Ngjela

Ngjela was born in Tirana in 1948. He is the son of Kiço Ngjela, a senior official in the Party of Labour of Albania who served as Minister of Finance and Minister of Foreign Trade during the communist era. Ngjela graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tirana in 1970.^[2][3]

After graduation, Ngjela worked as a prosecutor in the District Prosecutor's Office of Vlorë (1970), and later in the Prosecutor's Office of Durrës (1972). In 1973, he became a research associate at the Institute of History in Tirana.^[4]

In March 1979, Ngjela was arrested and sentenced by the District Court of Fier (decision no. 51, dated 23 March 1979) to 10 years in prison for "agitation and propaganda against the people's power", under the penal code of the communist regime. By application of Article 36 of the Penal Code, the final sentence amounted to 13 years of imprisonment starting from 23 March 1979, along with the loss of electoral rights for five years. He was imprisoned in Burrel Prison and released in 1990.^[5][6][7][2]

His father, Kiço Ngjela, who had been a high-ranking official and Minister of Foreign Trade until 1975, was also removed from his positions and accused by the regime of anti-party activities. These included promoting unnecessary trade agreements with "revisionist countries," sabotaging the policy of self-reliance, and being an agent of foreign intelligence services such as UDBA, CIA, and KGB.^[8]

After his release, Ngjela resumed his legal practice and operated a private law office from 1991.^[2]