Berisha offers Basha to the prosecutor office investigation

TIRANA, Nov. 26 – In what seemed to be a hand and proof of the government’s transparency, Prime Minister Sali Berisha pledged Monday at a parliamentary session that Foreign Minister Lulzim Basha would go to the prosecutor office to answer charges on alleged corruption in the Rreshen-Kalimash road segment.
Opposition lawmaker Petro Koci declared that the governing majority was trying to postpone all the opened questions.
In response Berisha said that Basha would soon answer to the accusation that he has likely been involved in a scandal when he was transport minister.
Berisha said that he has already publicly declared that if the prosecutor’s office opened any case against one of his ministers they would immediately be lifted of their parliamentary immunity and answer the charges. He only said that the procedure needed some more documents. The case vey likely will be included in the parliament’s agenda for the next month.
Former Prosecutor General Theodhori Sollaku has asked the parliament to lift Basha’s immunity in order to further investigate him on alleged scandal in choosing the Bechtel-Enka U.S.-Turkish group to build the road segment.
But meanwhile Sollaku is replaced by Ina Rama, only last week, and that may need further procedures to follow.