TIRANA, March 18/ATA/ The Special Court against Corruption and Organized Crime (SPAK) has sent for trial the case against former president Ilir Meta, his ex-wife Monika Kryemadhi and three other defendants.
SPAK has completed in 2025 the investigations into the CEZ-DIA affair, the lobbying of the Socialist Movement for Integration (SMI) in the USA and the wealth investigation against Ilir Meta and Monika Kryemadhi.
Meta and Kryemadhi are charged with “Passive corruption”, “Failure to declare wealth and private interests”.
Pirro Xhixho, Ema Çoku and Fatime Kryemadhi, the mother of the former SMI leader are also defendants. Xhixho, the father of the current vice president of the Party of Freedom Erisa Xhixho, is accused of corruption, while the other two are accused of money laundering.
The defense requested that the case be dropped or, alternatively, returned for further inquiries.
The former president has been in prison since October 2024. /m.m/j.p/p.s./
