Meta's lawyer: Corruption, Money Laundering, and Undeserved Wealth

Genc Gjokutaj, Ilir Meta's lawyer, revealed to the media details from the meeting with the former president arrested at the Tirana Police Directorate's premises, while showing there are three counts against his client: corruption, money laundering and property failure.

He said it was “a meeting like any other time just in an environment different than”, while naming “banitesk” Meta's ban. According to Gjokutaj, the leader of the Freedom Party is “taken to the streets”, although there has never been “no problem with calling him to SPAK”.

Asked by journalists what position Meta has taken after being cuffed at the order of SPAK, Gjokutaj said “his focus is perfectly clear”.

The “is determined to face the process and everything that is written in this decision. It's perfectly clear what this is about, and it's ready to make a defense on charges that have nothing to do with it, Meta's attorney said.

He has seen his client's arrest as a political blow, and for that he accused SPAK leader Altin Daman and Prime Minister Edi Rama.

I was at a meeting with Mr. Meta. He's arrived here after a kidnapping banditsk on the street, with an extremely non-legal behavior. This story happens to a person who's been in the SPAK several times and has been explaining what they've been asking him about, and this case has been five years. So these circumstances that they've been thinking about hitting on for 5 years now are in the hands of prosecutors. The moment is political, here is the Rama-Duman pair, and with the help of the masses, Ilir Meta's former associates who have formed a decision we just made”, Gjokutaj said.