TIRANA, July 24 – The State Police responded with a letter to the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPAK) regarding the execution of the security measure “arrest in prison” for Former Deputy Prime Minister Arben Ahmetaj.
Sources indicate that after verifications in the TIMS system and inspections of the apartments, the police have informed SPAK the impossibility of executing the measure against the former number two of the government.
Under these conditions, SPAK investigators have sent a request to Interpol Tirana to announce him as an internationally wanted person.
The former deputy prime minister is accused of corruption, money laundering and concealment of assets by the Special Prosecutor’s Office.
The investigations for Ahmetaj started in September for the accusation of abuse of office for the concession of the Elbasan incinerator from which SPAK claims that he received benefits from the concession companies with administrators Klodian Zoto and Mirel Mërtiri.
SPAK seized 4 apartments and two bank accounts in the value of 124,000 euros in the name of Arben Ahmetaj with the approval of the Special Court a few days ago.
Also the prosecutor’s office announced that it has seized documents, laptops and USB sticks that are valuable for the investigation. After this operation, the former deputy prime minister himself reacted, who, through a post on Facebook, called on the authorities to follow the funds of the incinerators.
Meanwhile, the lawyers of the former deputy prime minister have said that he is in Britain, but media sources have said that there are suppositions that Ahmetaj is in Canada, which does not have an extradition agreement with Albania. /argumentum.al
