Sentence in Italy for supporting Gazmend Mahmutaj / Mediu reacts to Vox News: I did not hide anything

2022-05-03 19:03:35Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Sentence in Italy for supporting Gazmend Mahmutaj / Mediu reacts to Vox News: I

SPAK today seized the assets of the PD MP, Kasëm Mahmutaj, because of his brother Gazmend Mahmutaj, after the latter was convicted in Italy for drug trafficking and prostitution.

The name of the leader of the Republican Party, Fatmir Mediu, also appears in Gazmend Mahmutaj's file in Italy.

According to the Italian file, the latter was sentenced in Italy to 3 years in prison and a ban on holding state positions on charges of "supporting the incriminated", as according to the Court of Appeal in Milan, with a decision of April 23, 2000, Mediu, on behalf of the Albanian parliament, has favored the wanted by the Italian justice, namely Gazmend Mahutaj, to transit from our country to the neighboring country with a false name (Raqi Gjoni).

For this event, at that time, Fatmir Mediu declared that he had been acquitted by the Italian Supreme Court.
The leader of the Republican Party has given a statement to Voxnews.al regarding this sentence of his in Italy, where he states that he has not hidden anything.

Although his name appears in the file of the Milan court, Mediu considers the published news as fabrications for political purposes.

"Even though you have published, I inform you. I have neither hidden nor have anything to hide. I have more than 3 legislatures that I have completed the decriminalization declaration. "I do not deal with fabricated media news for defamation and political purposes" , said Mediu for Voxnews.al

Asked if this story is mentioned to hit him politically, Mediu told Vox: "I do not care. "It's a story that has been deliberately repeated for 20 years."

Regarding Fatmir Mediu, Italian justice states: "On November 18, 1998, Gazmend Mahmutaj, a well-known figure in the criminal world in Berat, was in transit at the" Malpensa "airport in Milan with a group of Albanian parliamentarians. Deputies went to the European Parliament for a meeting on organized crime. Mahmutaj knew that he was wanted by the Italian authorities, so taking advantage of his friendship with the chairman of the PR, Fatmir Mediu, he had obtained forged documents under the name of Raqi Gjoni. "

The trial panel in Italy, in the First Instance and the Court of Appeals, had concluded that Mediu had helped Mahmutaj evade Italian justice by not serving his sentence.

Mediu was sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison and after the summary trial procedure, he was sentenced to 3 years in prison.
But Mediu himself said that he has received innocence from the Supreme Court and that this case has no room for allusions.


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