
Today, the trial for the former Minister of the Interior, Saimir Tahirin, will be held at the Court of Elbasan. The trial is expected to begin at 11:30. Tahiri will ask the court to recognize the days of detention.
The former Minister of the Interior, through his defense lawyers, asked the Court of Elbasan to recognize the sentence given on September 19, 2019 by the Court of First Instance. At that time, he was sentenced for abuse of office with 3 years and 4 months of imprisonment, but the Court suspended the sentence and converted it to probation.
Tahiri has been locked in a cell for several months, where it was initially decided that he would serve his sentence in Fier prison, but due to clashes with the director of the institution and the distance from Tirana, the former minister requested a move. 3 months ago he moved to Kosovo, Lushnja. The former Minister of the Interior, Saimir Tahiri, went to the cell on February 4.
GJKKO sentenced Saimir Tahir to 5 years in prison for 'Abuse of duty', but because the former minister had requested the application of the shortened trial procedure, 1/3 of the sentence was reduced, and now Tahir needs to stay behind prison bars in 3 years and 4 months of imprisonment. Tahiri was sentenced only for "Abuse of duty" while "escaping" the charges of "Corruption of high officials", "Trafficking of narcotics carried out in cooperation" and "Structured criminal group".