The opposition Democratic Party has accused Interior Minister Saimir Tahiri of having ties to a man arrested for drug trafficking, saying the suspect had been part of Tahiri’s support team during the electoral campaign in Tirana, a sign which, they said, shows criminal links the government.
A Democratic Party spokesman has said a man arrested this week transporting a large amount of marijuana was employed as a driver in the ministry after elections last year when Tahiri’s governing Socialist Party came to power.
The Interior Ministry said that the fact that the police had arrested a person employed by the interior ministry is a sign that the system is working and of the uncompromised war the current has undertaken in the fight against illegal drug traffic.
