a minute agoSaimir Tahiri involved in drug trafficking, Prosecution seeks MP immunity removed
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)Investigations conducted by the Prosecutor for Crime in co-operation with Italian authorities have highlighted former Interior Minister Saimir Tahiri's involvement in drug trafficking. The State Crimes Prosecutor has asked the Parliament to lift MP Saimir Tahiri's immunity in order to [...]
Investigations conducted by the Prosecutor for Crime in co-operation with Italian authorities have highlighted former Interior Minister Saimir Tahiri's involvement in drug trafficking.
The RS Prosecutor for Crime has asked the Parliament to lift MP Saimir Tahiri's immunity in order to make the Socialist politician's arrest.
Among other things, control of his residence is required. The Italian prosecution file named Saimir Tahiri is cited by the band of Moses Habilaj, arrested in Italy as the head of Albania's international drug trafficking gang in Italy.
He is a distant relative to Tahiri, and in the wiretapping committed by the Italian prosecution, Tahiri is mentioned as being supported and owed considerable amount of money. Also, senior police executives are mentioned in the gang's wiretaps as helping people, “people of their own, as Habilaj puts it, who also help them carry drugs.
The Council of Mandata is now expected to convene to make the decision on Tahiri, as Albanian Parliament deputy, and further to be followed by his arrest for which the prosecution order has been issued. This is the most impressive arrest of the top official to be cuffed in Albania so far. After Spiro Ksera, former Berisha minister.
Meanwhile Tahiri himself in a statement for the media pleaded innocent and demanded that the investigations go to the end of this story, but he did not give up the political posts he held even though he tried to investigate.
Official Prosecution Notification
The Randa Crime Prosecutor requests authorisation from Albania's Assembly for the removal of MP Saimir Tahiri's immunity, following an investigation into criminal acts initiated by “Narcotics Trafficking”, carried out in co-operation, in the special form of the structured criminal group and “passive corruption of senior state officials and local elected”, provided by net 283/2 and 260 Penal Code.
The Randa Crime Prosecution is conducting investigations, in co-operation with Italian authorities, for a criminal group that has trafficked large amounts of narcotics cannabis sattiva from Albania to Italy.
Based on data obtained under this investigation, the State Criminal Prosecutor's Office requests from the Commission of Mandata in Albania's Parliament granting authorisation for “arrest, removal of freedom and personal control of the” residence for MP Saimir Tahiri.
