TIRANA, Dec. 26 – Fatbardh Kadilli, the Prime Minister’s adviser on anti-corruption activities, said that the government had made 200 charges on corruption which were not acted on by former Prosecutor General Theodhori Sollaku.
Responding to this information, Prime Minister Sali Berisha has fired some 300 employees from the administration and added 100 more staff at the police department.
The government has also received some 13,000 letters of accusations of corruption. Fighting corruption was the main issue that moved Albanians to vote for Berisha’s Democratic Party in 2005.
Nevertheless, international polls such as Transparency International continue to include Albania in the list of the most corrupt countries in the world, ranked 105 out of 180, and the most corrupt country in southeastern Europe.
Fighting corruption remains a top priority in the country as it proceeds in its integration efforts into NATO and the European Union.
“Albanian needs a lot to do to improve the index,” said Kadilli.
