“Eagle Residence” is a construction project with commercial units and apartments on Tahir Kadare street, in Tirana.
This project is not particularly different from the buildings that are sprouting on both sides of the entrance road of the capital, except for the fact that it is owned by the family of the former Albanian Minister of the Interior, Saimir Tahiri.
The Tahiri family’s investments have attracted the attention of the Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Corruption and Organized Crime. The BIRN network has learned that the latter has started a verification of all the assets of Tahiri, his family members and persons related to him in order to conclude regarding the legality of the source or if there is any hidden wealth.
However, Tahiri insists that his wife’s ventures are transparent and they are based on properties inherited from parents and loans from the banks.
“The land where construction is taking place is a land inherited from generation to generation of my wife’s family,” Tahiri said in a written response to BIRN, while adding that his father-in-law was born on the land where the palace was being built.
In relation to SPAK’s investigations, the former Minister of the Interior emphasized that there was no official statement, but he expressed his readiness “to provide clarifications when necessary.”
Tahiri, with a long career in the Socialist Party, was appointed as Minister of the Interior but was later sentenced to 3 years and 4 months for “abuse of duty” after a long process, where he was convicted for drug trafficking and organized criminal group.
His lawyer, Maksim Haxhia, then claimed that Tahiri could no longer stay in the cell and that he had to take care of the children in a situation when his wife was sick –claims that were found to be fair by judge Fetahu.
After the dismissal of the former minister due to the criminal process, his wife has registered a series of companies with activity in various fields, which according to the balance sheets submitted to the National Business Center have been successful.
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