Linda Rama: Between Family, Work and Albania’s Future Luan Rama, the General Secretary of the Socialist Movement for Integration, considered Ilir Meta’s trial as a political process. He
illustrated this with the court session that was held yesterday.
“The falsity of this entire political process towards Mr. Meta was proved with official documents, and was also proved that the evidence were manipulated for deceiving the public opinion”, Rama declared.
Luan Rama added that the former Minister of Energy, Dritan Prifti, did not give the tender to the company of Bekim Halilaj, the only one that had the necessary documentation, because he had given it to another company, the owner of which was also co-owner, with the Prifti’s wife, of a brick factory.
“We have an agreement of 10 February 2010, between Albpetrol and TEA Construction Petrol. The video has been recorded several days later”, Rama declared.
Luan Rama concluded the press release with accusations for a trial with falsified evidence, but he also declared that SMI respected the court’s integrity.
“Ilir Meta is not in a legal battle with justice, but in respecting the justice authorities, Ilir Meta’s battle is for justice”, Rama added.
Prifti’s testimony: Video is original
Dritan Prifti, probably the most important witness that the Albanian justice has ever had, testified for four hours in the Ilir Meta trial.
Prifti replied to the prosecutor’s and Meta’s lawyers questions, explaining in front of the penal college the reasons that made him record the video, emphasizing that the registration has no intervention in either video or audio.
Dritan Prifti declared that he had kept the video for one year for security reasons, for himself and his family, but only after having shown it to the Prime Minister Sali Berisha, who had not taken it in consideration.
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