TIRANA, April 18 – In a fresh round of trouble for a Socialist Party member of parliament, Alfred Peza, the Serious Crimes Court in Tirana has ordered a preventive seizure of shares of his spouse, Mirela Ndini ,at Credins Bank.
The court order came following a request by the prosecutors probing Alfred Peza and Mirela Ndini for illegal assets.
The vice chairman of the Parliamentary Media Committee is suspected to have accumulated unreported wealth within a few years while his wife purchased around 1 million US dollars’ worth of shares from the second tier bank.
Prosecutors found out that “although the bank shares were purchased by Mirela Ndini, the MP had also made significant financial contributions.”
Earlier, MP Peza claimed that he had managed to save 1 million US dollars used to purchase the shares at Credins Bank. He also said that the state institutions had audited his assets and found that he or his wife had never mismanaged public funds.
Peza, a former reporter and media director was elected a member of parliament from the ranks of Socialist Party in the parliamentary elections of 2013. He claims to have been paid millions of lek while he acted as a chief editor at a private TV channel.
Prosecutors have found out that the gross revenues of Mirela Ndini and Alfred Peza through the years amounts to 51 million Lek whereas their assets (real estate and bank accounts) amounts to 135 million Lek. According to authorities, Ndini and Peza are unable to justify the origins of at least 84 million Lek.
Peza and Ndini are being probed in the framework of the anti-mafia bill. They are suspected to have committed at least three penal offences such as “failure to reveal revenues,” “money laundering” and “false declaration or refusal to disclose assets.”
