TIRANA, June 6 – The former mayor of Durrës, Vangjush Dako has been detained at the request of the Special Prosecutor’s Office against Organized Crime (SPAK) and is being held at the premises of the Tirana Police on Tuesday. His arrest happened after the issuance of the arrest warrant by SPAK for Dako and 9 former officials of the Municipality of Durrës who are accused of corruption and abuse of office. It is reported that Dako will be held at the premises of the Police Directorate of Tirana until he appears at trial.
In the meantime, it is announced that the security measure of ‘prison arrest’ has been signed for 7 former officials, while the security measure of ‘house arrest’ has been issued for 3 of them.
The Prime Minister, at the same time the chairman of the Socialist Party (SP), Edi Rama declared after the event that we must be patient in the fight against corruption, because we have entered a completely new phase, where for the first time in the history of our people officials related to power are being hit.
In his speech at a thank-you meeting after the May 14 local elections in Berat, Rama said that of course this is not easy, there are also things here that make you feel bad, either because you have no way you feel good when you see someone who until yesterday was by your side, and then he is by the side of the lawyer and in front of the prosecutor or the judge and surely something has happened.
‘Keep in mind that this is happening for the first time in the history of our people. It has never happened before. For this we should be proud of SP and all the contributions we make,” said Rama. /argumentum.al
