Meta 3-hour confrontation with SPAK: Fabricated investigations, investigate who made the payments

Former President Ilir Meta left detention cell 313 and appeared at the Special Prosecution Office on Monday afternoon, where he was informed of the closure of the investigations into the two files, the CEZ-DIA corruption affair and the SMI lobbying in the US.

What was thought to be a short session where only the former President of the Republic's signature was expected to close the investigations, actually took a full 3 hours. He was accompanied by the defense attorney, Kujtim Cakrani, who at the end declared to the media that the prosecutors did not provide anything new, in any of the files in which Meta is accused of corruption, money laundering and concealment of assets.

"Even after 6 years of investigations into the CEZ-DIA case, there is nothing new, or about lobbying. Mr. Meta has given his explanations and has requested in-depth investigations from the prosecution to discover who made the lobbying payments. The prosecutor has no information about where the payments came from, which bank they came from and which account."

The lawyer emphasized that the battle will continue in court with a regular process and not an abbreviated one, which is expected to be a long legal process.

"There is no evidence to prove that the charges against Mr. Meta are serious. There is no criminal fact. The procedural body says we will resolve it in court. We will go to a regular trial," Meta's lawyer declared.

As his lawyer stated, Meta himself emphasizes that he has strongly raised the request to investigate who had made the illegal payments on behalf of the former LSI to the company in the US and to whom he was sending the invoices for approval in the Freedom Party, the GSIS company.

Ilir Meta has been in prison since October 21 of last year, while the charges were officially communicated to him in May, when he was taken into custody.

SPAK previously closed the investigations into his ex-wife Monika Kryemadhi, her mother Fatima, and their two associates, Ema Çoku and Piro Xhixho. (A2 Televizion)