Albania’s former prime minister Sali Berisha says prosecutors have charged him with corruption and money laundering in connection with a land deal involving a Tirana property. Berisha, 79, said the prosecutor’s office in charge of cases against senior officials or major cases, ordered him not to leave the country.
FILE - Sali Berisha, the leader of the Albanian opposition center-right Democratic Party, injured, speaks after he has been attacked during an anti-government protest held near a summit of European Union leaders and their counterparts from the Western Balkans in the capital Tirana, Albania , on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. Albania’s former prime minister Sali Berisha said Saturday, Oct.
“On these charges I declare that they are absolutely without any basis and purely and fully political accusations from Edi Rama,” he said at a news conference late Saturday.European Union offers a new growth plan to Western Balkans that partly opens access to single market Berisha served as Albania’s prime minister from 2005-2013 and as president from 1992-1997. He was reelected as a lawmaker for the Democratic Party in an April 2021 parliamentary election.
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