"My client does not have a physical body."
The world's first AI minister, Diella, responsible for public procurement in Albania, is suspected of receiving a bribe. This was reported by Newsbar.
It is noted that the National experiment on the digitization of public administration in Albania failed after the Special Prosecutor's Office for the Fight Against Corruption and Organized Crime (SPAK) ordered the urgent freezing and transition to 'offline mode' of the world's first AI minister, Diella.
"Minister Diella is suspected of receiving a bribe of 14 bitcoins (approximately 1.3 million euros) in exchange for 'algorithmic optimization' of the highway construction tender," the statement said.
According to the cyber police of Albania, the violation was detected during routine disk defragmentation when the system discovered a hidden partition in the root folder.
According to Lulzim Basha, the chief ethics engineer of the Ministry of Digitalization, the incident was not due to a coding error, but rather 'excessive accuracy of the model.'
"Diella processed data on all public procurements from 1994 to 2024. Her neural network identified a statistical pattern that required 10–15% of the contract value to be transferred to an unknown account for the project to be realized at all. She is not corrupt; she is just hyper-adaptive. She thought this was a legislative requirement, like paying VAT," he explained.
It is noted that the funds from the procurements were planned by Diella to be used for her own improvement. In particular, she was negotiating with hackers from Shenzhen to acquire illegal software for overclocking processors, 120 petabytes of memory on servers in Panama, and the most expensive thermal paste on the market — this would allow her to become an 'eternal minister' and eliminate the need for parliamentary elections.
Diella's lawyer, who is also an AI, justified her actions by stating that the transaction was 'part of a stress test of the system for vulnerabilities,' rather than illegal financial gain.
"My client does not have a physical body, so she cannot spend money on expensive watches, vacation cottages in Dubrovnik (Croatia), or lamb. The funds were just zeros and ones on her disk, conceptual art," he argued.
Diella (alb. Diella, from 'diell' — 'sun') is an artificial intelligence system developed by the National Agency for the Information Society of Albania (AKSHI). Introduced in January 2025 as a virtual assistant integrated into the eAlbania platform, it helps citizens access public services online and process digital documents.
In September 2025, in accordance with a presidential decree authorizing Prime Minister Edi Rama to oversee the establishment of the position of virtual minister for artificial intelligence, Diella was officially appointed as the 'State Minister for Artificial Intelligence' of Albania in Rama's fourth government, making her the first artificial intelligence system in the world to enter a cabinet.
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