The arrest of Fredi Beleri on May 12 on the charge of election corruption and his detention has brought irritation in the relations between Tirana and Athens. The prison term for the winner of the May 14 elections has also been confirmed by the high court, which in the high court decision of July 25, 2023, which has already been released, expressed doubts that Fredi Beleri could damage the evidence.
This fact is based on the disappearance of the device where the security camera recordings are memorized in the bar owned by Fredi Beleri in Himare, where the payment of 40 thousand lek was made for the votes of 8 citizens on May 12.
Given that Dhionisios Alfred Beleri has been elected Mayor of Himarë Municipality, there is an opportunity to carry out actions that prevent the discovery of the truth. From the minutes of 12.05.2023 in the premises of the bar, where people hold meetings, there were cameras installed, but the recording device was not found during the inspection and that this fact shows that the risk of influencing the evidence of the case is real.
Another argument was the risk that Beleri would evade justice, as he did with the sentence given in 2006 by the Court of Vlora with 3 years in prison for inciting nationalist hatred.
For Mr. Dhionisios Alfred Beleri there is a risk of avoiding criminal proceedings or leaving. Even in the previous criminal trial and sentence, from which he was found guilty and ultimately sentenced to three years in prison, the defendant has avoided the execution of the final decision for years, leading to the cancellation of the sentence.'- it says in the file.
In the decision, the testimony of the person identified as "Detari" is cited, who denounced Beler for vote-buying and then served as an undercover agent for documenting the case.
"I learned from different people, whom I knew as friends of Fredi Beleri, who was a candidate for mayor in Himara for the "Omonia" party, that he had offered some of my friends money to buy votes. I knew citizen Fredi Beleri for 10 years as I had a business relationship with him, as he often came and bought fish from me to supply his restaurant. Based on this fact, I went to take him the fish to the place called "Potam" where citizen Fredi Beleri usually stayed. Fredi Beleri himself told me in the above conversation to find votes in his favor and after collecting them to go meet him and for each vote he would give me 50 euros per person and he would help me to make documents Greek". - says "Detari", the infiltrated agent of the "Beleri" file.
The person identified with the code "Detari", says that immediately after the meeting, he went to the police.
I told him that I would answer him and I immediately ran away and seeing that an illegal activity was being carried out, I went and met the head of the Himarë EA Police Station and told him the whole conversation I had with Fredi Beleri . I specifically told the head of the police station that Fredi Beleri had offered me money in exchange for buying the vote and specifically he had asked me to collect votes in his favor and for these votes he would give me 50 euros for each vote..." - says "Detari", the infiltrated agent of the "Beleri" file.
"Detari" had found about 15 people interested in selling the vote, but on May 12, when he met with Alfred Kokavesh, a member of Beler's staff, to whom he showed the names, four of them were excluded. Kokaveshi told him that other people had made an agreement with those voters, agreeing to give 5,000 Lek each for the votes of 8 people, a total of 40,000 new Lek. After handing over the money, the police intervened and arrested the involved persons in the act, who also seized the voter lists containing residents of the villages of Himara. They were interrogated and admitted that people from Fredi Beleri's staff had asked them to vote by promising them 50 euros per person.