Albanian prosecutors have charged former Prime Minister Sali Berisha and his son-in-law on Sunday with corruption and cash laundering costs over a land deal involving the grounds of a sports activities membership.
In accordance with the Particular Prosecutor’s Workplace in opposition to Corruption and Organized Crime (SPAK), Berisha was accused of “corruption of senior officers” in reference to the privatization of a state-owned sports activities complicated “for the advantage of his son-in-law”. He has additionally been advised to report back to the police and was banned from leaving the nation.
In 2020, legal proceedings in opposition to Berisha have been launched when Taulant Balla, the present inside minister, accused Berisha of being complicit within the privatization of sports activities fields and different amenities owned by the Protection ministry in Tirana, the capital metropolis of Albania, that have been later changed with multi-story buildings. The alleged crimes have been reportedly perpetrated in 2008 whereas Berisha, the present chief of the opposition, was the Prime Minister. Jamarber Malltezi, his son-in-law, was detained on Saturday evening on being accused with “corruption and cash laundering”.
At a press conference, the 79-year-old former prime minister dismissed the claims in opposition to him and blamed Prime Minister Edi Rama, saying they have been “purely and fully political.” He asserted that each of them have been harmless and that Malltezi had solely been charged as a result of he was his son-in-law.
After communism fell within the Nineteen Nineties, Berisha was Albania’s first democratically elected president. Berisha presided over Albania as president from 1992 to 1997 and as prime minister from 2005 to 2013. In a parliamentary election held in April 2021, he gained re-election as a member of parliament for the Democratic Social gathering.
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