Tirana : Albania’s former chief prosecutor was on Friday sentenced to two years in prison for corruption, a special anti-graft court said.
The verdict showed that Adriatik Llalla, once one of Albania’s most powerful and feared men, gave false information on his illegal assets. They included an apartment in the seaside city of Durres and more than two hectares of land, whose total value exceeded 8 million euros ($10 million).
The court established that Llalla "could not explain" where he got the money to buy the real estate. As well as being jailed, he was also banned from holding public office for next five years.
Llalla is the most senior public official sentenced by the Special Court of Corruption and Organised Crime, a new institution established in 2019 as part of Albania’s rocky effort to clean-up its graft-riddled judiciary.
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