Albania PM backs disgraced ex-minister
Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha said he believed the outgoing minister of justice was innocent of corruption charges.
Saturday, 17.11.2007.
18:17
Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha said he believed the outgoing minister of justice was innocent of corruption charges. "I accepted the resignation of Ilir Rusmali with the deep conviction that he has no connection whatsoever - apart from the blood relationship - to his brother’s efforts to profit from tenders,” Berisha said at a news conference where he named Rusmali’s successor, BIRN reported from Tirana. Albania PM backs disgraced ex-minister Rusmali resigned on Wednesday after being accused by the Director-General of Prisons, Saimir Shehri, of putting unlawful pressure on a company connected with the ministry’s EUR 1.8mn tender to build a new detention facility in the city of Durres. Shehri, who also stepped down, has presented a tape recording in which Rusmali’s brother, Edmond, allegedly pressures a high-ranking prison official to award him the tender. The outgoing minister has denied the accusations against him, while asserting that Shehri had been seeking to entrap him. Berisha named Enkeled Alibej, the head of the anti-corruption department in the prime minister’s office, as his nominee for the post of justice minister. Alibej is a member of the Democratic Party’s reform-minded Committee for the Orientation of Politics, a body created ahead of the 2005 parliamentary elections that has since supplied a number of ministers to the government.
Albania PM backs disgraced ex-minister
Rusmali resigned on Wednesday after being accused by the Director-General of Prisons, Saimir Shehri, of putting unlawful pressure on a company connected with the ministry’s EUR 1.8mn tender to build a new detention facility in the city of Durres.Shehri, who also stepped down, has presented a tape recording in which Rusmali’s brother, Edmond, allegedly pressures a high-ranking prison official to award him the tender.
The outgoing minister has denied the accusations against him, while asserting that Shehri had been seeking to entrap him.
Berisha named Enkeled Alibej, the head of the anti-corruption department in the prime minister’s office, as his nominee for the post of justice minister.
Alibej is a member of the Democratic Party’s reform-minded Committee for the Orientation of Politics, a body created ahead of the 2005 parliamentary elections that has since supplied a number of ministers to the government.
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