TIRANA, April 23/ATA/ The Special Court against Corruption and Organized Crime rejected today the request of Mayor of Tirana Erion Veliaj to revoke the security measure of “prison arrest”. The request was also rejected for businessman Elman Abule, who is under “house arrest”.
According to media reports, in today’s session, the Court got acquainted with the two-month information and investigative actions carried out by SPAK.
For its part, the Special Prosecution stated that during this time there have been carried out 114 investigative actions related to the file against Veliaj, including the control of seized mobile phones and hearing of the testimony.
Mayor Veliaj was not present at the session, while his lawyer Ermir Beta, according to the media, said that none of the investigative actions carried out are related to his client.
Veliaj was arrested on February 10 and is suspected by SPAK of the criminal offenses “Passive corruption of high-ranking state officials or local elected officials”, committed in collaboration (9 times).
He is also accused of, “bringing prohibited items into detention cells”. /j.p/p.s./
