One week after a bank security van was robbed inside the perimeter of
the Tirana International Airport by armed men, the National Security
Committee of Civil Aviation held their first meeting regarding the case
in question.
Present in the meeting led by Aleksander Lipivani, Head of the Civil Aviation, were the Deputy Minister of Transportation, Bahri Shaqiri; the General Chief of State Police, Haki Cako; the Chief of the Border Police, Genc Merepeza, a series of high public officials and the executive director of the airport, Rolf Castro Vasquez.
No comment was released for the media by the participants, saying that it was a confidential meeting.
When asked by Top Channel who they think should be held responsible for the breached security in the Airport, Vasquez said it is a confidential topic and the media will be informed very soon through official channels, while the airport has increased its security measures after the robbery, although he didn’t specify in public what exactly were they.
Vasquez insisted for Top Channel that their relations with the police have been good, but sources say the Police and the concessionary company have had different stances about who should be held responsible.
The Interior Minister and the Minister of Defense asked a change in the concessionary agreement, in order to give more access to the police for guarding the airport. The concessionary has finally installed security cameras even at the gate used by the robbers as entrance.
Sources from the investigation group say that they are still working and seizing the security cameras of businesses along the Tirana-Durres high-way, since there are suspicions that the robbers have traveled with a transportation van that was last seen in the Laknas village.
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