The former chief prosecutor of Tirana, Elizabeta Imeraj, if she were still a prosecutor today, says that she would have opened the investigation into the file of "Russian lobbying" by the Democratic Party, led at that time by Lulzim Basha.
In an interview on the show 'Kontrast', Imeraj said that after the publication of the report from the USA confirming the 500 thousand dollars from the Russians, the Prosecutor's Office can start the investigation in the main, while stressing that this time it would have taken the citizen Nicolas Muzin as a witness. fulfilling the latter's request not to be prosecuted in Albania.
"It would be important for the subject to be interested in clarifying the situation until the end. If I were a prosecutor, I would start it again. We are investigating, the case is flagrant, every lobbying is done on the basis of a contract, the DP has declared that a lobbying has been done and has this contract, there are 3 payments made, which specifically total 75 thousand dollars, while from the acts that gave us another act of 500 thousand dollars and this became a regular contract with Mr. Basha and Muzin, and the investigation had its own line, because of the signatures he put and the responsibility he has because of the firm that has done, what I, as a lawyer and professional, should be investigated to the end. That after 3 years a new one may appear and it would be required to be investigated again.
The prosecution can also start investigations mainly based on media investigations for one element, it is difficult that in 2022, we can find spaces for certain groups inside and outside the country to become a factor within a political entity. When these groups have so much support and so much space, think what they can do against a prosecutor, a judge and a journalist. I would offer all the procedural mechanisms in terms of obtaining a valid testimony, we have made the status of cooperation of justice even if he has committed a criminal offense, but always if this statement discloses a greater criminal offense. In the rank of an answer that the witness would say that the source of income is from this company and the contacts were established in this way, then this would solve the silence, it would appear that PD lied.
We made it mandatory for them to take the testimony of the witness. The DP's obligation to make the declarations correct is with the CEC and the official declarations turned out to be lies and from our side it was a forgery, we don't know how the bank transfers were made." , said Imeraj.