The former minister Tahiri finally speaks: That's my connection to Haabilyt.

Saimir Tahiri, former Albanian Interior Minister, has clarified his relations with Habilaj cousins, known as a criminal gang.

Tahiri said Habilaj had distant cousins, 7 or 8, with whom there was no report.

I didn't know them well, I didn't even have a relationship. I haven't had reports of staying and sharing my things. I don't know maybe at family parties we've been or we've been here, but we've never had close relationships, he said, reports Periscope.

He says his only relationship with Habilaj, for which he even bears moral responsibility, is to sell his car after taking over the mission office in 2015.

The only relationship I have of moral responsibility and have apologized to the public, is that I had a few days after taking office as minister, saw fit to sell my car, he indicated.

I sold the car with a regular swimmer. I don't remember the price. I sold a car that my family recognized as potential buyers and sold him, he added.

The repentant Tahiri said I should have asked who I was selling my car to. To be more careful. It's wrong, but it's not guilt. He said.

The Catania court in the more than 400-page file that sealed the fate of Moses Habilaj and his gang, also names former Interior Minister Saimir Tahiri.

According to Italian judges and prosecutors, Habilaj cites Tahiri as his cousin, as supporters of the event in exchange for campaign money./Periscopi/