Adriatic Llall wealth seized

The prosecution at the First Criminal Tribunal for the First Crime, in a press release, suggests today ( 23.07.2018) quoted that” as the result of the investigative actions committed, has created reasonable doubts that some real estate owned by Adriatic citizens Lella constitutes the product of criminal work”.

Prosecutor's announcement stresses that “The Court of First Crime in Tirana accepted the prosecution's request for the deployment of the property security measure “sequentative” for the real estate of former Adriatic chief Merla.

Charges of Money Laundering at Large

Riches under the preventative sequentone are 22.050 m2 field land in Tirana and a residential apartment in Durres with a surface of 67.2 m2. The prosecution's decision comes after more than 5 months of investigation into the Lella, “for money laundering at large”. The prosecution's press release suggests that it cites “allegations that Adriatic Lella's assets are unjustified. The market value of real estate amounts to 98 million and 772 thousand leks”.

With the current exchange rate Lek/European this amount is approximately 800 thousand euros.

On the American State Department's Black List

A month before the prosecution's body began investigating money laundering in March last year, it was the US State Department that preceded the investigation when it made the decision in February 2018 that the former chief prosecutor and his family would enter the blacklist and not be allowed access to the US “due to its involvement in major corruption cases when it was in office”. The Adriatic Lylla came to the helm of the Prosecution in early 2012, and remained until the end of the 5-year term on December 3, 2017.

Media news release, transparency of money laundering and corruption

The investigation began when the media made public transfers of facts and official documents showing land trading, olive groves on large surfaces. The money laundering formula was: Buy too cheap, then re-evaluate the purchased land, sold 20-30 times more expensive. Official documents published in the Tirana media pointed to former chief prosecutor's financial transactions with criminal precedents linked to serious crimes.

Significant Results in Fighting Corruption

Former Adriatic General Prosecutor Llaa has not been subject to the prosecutor's veto. Before vetoing, he declared voluntary departure from the justice system. But that did not prevent justice from investigating it. Determination of real estate is a positive signal that fighting corruption will include the so-called <x0 unregulated” or “sized”. It is predox how for 5 years the head of the prosecution who was supposed to conduct the fight against corruption is being investigated in fact for corruption / money laundering and has seized his real estate.

His impartial and professional investigation is a teststone for justice reform. The lamp will be judged by judges who passed through the system of self - sacrifice. Whether his case will be attended by former current rulers or rulers for whom charges of unproved corruption are cast, which are turned on and turned off according to the policy of the day, then Albania will have arguments that Albania is achieving significant results in the fight against corruption. With such results it could be convinced after a year of sceptical EU states, such as France and the Netherlands, which Albania has made progress to the extent it deserves to start in June 2019, EU accession negotiations.