Bank of Albania Governor and Chief Inspector arrested

The Prosecution General gave the first details about the arrest of the
Bank of Albania Governor, Ardian Fullani, and of the Chief Inspector of
this institution, Elivar Golemi. 

The Chief of the Cabinet at the Prosecution General, Fjorida Ballauri, explained for the media that the Court has ordered the arrest after a request of the Tirana Prosecution.

Baullari says that after the investigation, the Prosecution has found that the Governor and the Chief Inspector have acted against the law by neglecting with the auditing measures.

“The court gave the measure of prison for Ardian Fullani and Elivar Golemi over power abuse charges. The Prosecution reached the conclusion that due to their failure to act, the two officials have created the conditions for the realization of this theft”, declared the Chief of the Cabinet at the Prosecution General.

The investigations showed that Fullani violated the law by:

1-Not proposing the second Deputy Governor to the Supervisory Council, who could have realized the financial administration and supervision;

2- Did not undertake legal initiatives for the welfare of the Bank of Albanial;

3-Did not allow the functioning of the Emission Department;

4-As General Director of the Bank of Albania, he did not take the necessary measures for implementing the decisions and regulations of the Supervisory Council for the administrative work and governing of the Bank of Albania;

5-The Governor has appointed twice the same person by going against the regulation.

For Mrs.Elivar Golemi, the Prosecution has found that:

1-She didn’t make the audit based on the law and regulations of the Bank of Albania;

2-Acted against the law for the inspection and administering of the Bank of Albania finances;

3-Did not inform the Supervisory Council about the financial operations; did not make audits in 2012, 2013 and 2014, when the theft was carried out;

4-Did not complete her duties, because she did not compile any record for the vault.

Fullani’s lawer: The arrest is illegal

The lawyer of the Bank Governor, Maks Haxhia, met with his client at the Tirana Police Directory, who is accused over power abuse.

Haxhia declared that his arrest was illegal, and this might be the card that he will play at the Court.

Haxhi said that he had not been informed about the arrest of the Governor or about the motives of this decision.

“I’m in an informative darkness. I was informed by his family for the arrest. I have no information if this decision was taken by the Prosecution or by the Court, I simply came here to do my job. I don’t know if this is an arrest or if he was taken for questions, but this is not a delicate relationship between the police authorities and my client. There might be a Court decision with specific arguments”, Haxhia declared.
 

Braçe: We only had to be patient

After the news for the arrest of the Governor of the Bank of Albania, the first politician to react was the Socialist MP, Erjon Brace, the Chair of the Commission of Economy.

Brace said on a Facebook post that “We only had to be patient. Things have changed once and for all in this country. Responsibility comes first”, Brace declared.

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