Blushi was referring to photographs printed by native media exhibiting masked police stopping a automotive, eradicating Meta, who appeared to withstand, and escorting him to a police particular forces van.
“This authorities pays the worth in each road and in each sq.,” Blushi stated when requested if there could be protests following the arrest.
In response to native media, Meta is accused of corruption, cash laundering and hiding his wealth. The arrest adopted an order from the workplace of the Particular Prosecutor for Corruption (SPAK).
Meta, 55, served as president from 2017 till 2022 and beforehand as prime minister and speaker of parliament. He grew to become president with the assist of Prime Minister Edi Rama’s ruling Socialist Get together.
The connection between Meta and Rama subsequently deteriorated, nonetheless, with the Socialists making an attempt to oust the president twice throughout his time period in workplace — as soon as in 2019 for refusing to name native elections after an opposition boycott, and once more in 2021 for interfering generally elections.
Meta isn’t the one opposition politician dealing with felony prices.
Final month, the chief of the Democratic Get together, Sali Berisha, was indicted on corruption prices for actions he took as prime minister. Berisha additionally denies wrongdoing.
The Democratic Get together, the biggest opposition drive, has accused Rama of orchestrating prosecutions of its members, which Rama denies. On Sept. 30 Berisha’s supporters set hearth to chairs outdoors the parliament to protest the sentencing of one other get together colleague, Ervin Salianji, to a 12 months in jail for making a false report.