Corrupted officials

19/01/2013 00:00

“My proposition is to include money laundering corruption as a serious
crime, since in many cases corruption favours money laundering and
organized crime, and this fight cannot be efficient if we don’t include
corruption in this area. Corruption for money laundering should be
treated by the Court of Serious Crimes. On this point it could be
possible to include some articles, and if this is related with the
political will, than we must see higher forms of corruption”, declared
Pietro Spera, Euralius expert.

This proposition of the international experts in Albania was made on July 2012. It seems that soon will become part of the judicial debates in the country. The first view fro the Albanain authorities was given by the Justice Minsiter, Eduard Halimi, who underlined the necessity of treating these cases by the Court of Serious Crime, since they implicate high rank officials. For this reason he asked for amends of the Penal Code.

This project is also supported by Sander Simoni, a Serious Crime judge.

“My opinion comes as a judge and president of this court. Such initiatives could mean to amend penal policies, which is a responsibility of executive and lawmaking institutions. We are also talking about other forms of cooperation, in the case of penal acts related to corruption or others. The cases of corruption by large amounts of money or made by high rank officials must be a competence of the Serious Crimes Court, so that we can implement the Anti Mafia law”, declared Sander Simoni, President of the Serious Crimes Court.

The President of the Serious Crimes Court says that the competences should be larger, based on the level of the money laundering act.

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