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Blushi was referring to pictures revealed by native media displaying masked police stopping a automobile, eradicating Meta, who appeared to withstand, and escorting him to a police particular forces van.
“This authorities pays the worth in each avenue and in each sq.,” Blushi mentioned when requested if there could be protests following the arrest.
According to native media, Meta is accused of corruption, cash laundering and hiding his wealth. The arrest adopted an order from the workplace of the Special Prosecutor for Corruption (SPAK).
Meta, 55, served as president from 2017 till 2022 and beforehand as prime minister and speaker of parliament. He grew to become president with the help of Prime Minister Edi Rama’s ruling Socialist Party.
The relationship between Meta and Rama subsequently deteriorated, nevertheless, with the Socialists making an attempt to oust the president twice throughout his time period in workplace — as soon as in 2019 for refusing to name native elections after an opposition boycott, and once more in 2021 for interfering typically elections.
Meta isn’t the one opposition politician dealing with prison expenses.
Last month, the chief of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, was indicted on corruption expenses for actions he took as prime minister. Berisha additionally denies wrongdoing.
The Democratic Party, the most important opposition drive, has accused Rama of orchestrating prosecutions of its members, which Rama denies. On Sept. 30 Berisha’s supporters set hearth to chairs exterior the parliament to protest the sentencing of one other party colleague, Ervin Salianji, to a 12 months in jail for making a false report.
