Prifti file revealed

They are accused of passive corruption among high officials or locally elected administrators, committed in cooperation, foreseen by articles 260 and 25 of the Penal Code. The Prosecution says in this document secured by Top Channel that the penal act was filed against the high rank officials based on a video recovered by the technical experts during the investigation for the trial of the Deputy Prime Minsiter Ilir Meta, in which Dritan Prifti had handed the video file together with the other evidence.

The prosecution says that the investigation proved that the camera had another video file in it, which had been previously deleted. The video was realized on March 11th 2010, and it shows two persons, Prifti and Beqiraj, sharing among them 69.000 Euro.

The Prosecution underlined that the Minister and his deputy were filed for penal prosecution on 11 February 2011, and that the investigations have shown that both of them have received bribes. However, the video is incomplete and has unidentified fragments.

The Prosecution suspects that the money has been given to other people too, although there is no witness for this. The video also doesn’t indicate where this money is coming from. The former Minister Prifti declared that the money was from one private business of theirs.  

The Prosecution bases its charges on the tests of the US experts, Glen Bart and Ardian Philip, and the Albanian expert, Ledion Telhaj. This expertise was rejected by the Supreme Court for the Meta-Prifti video, declaring it as invalid since it had been processed abroad.

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