{"id":29567,"date":"2022-01-17T13:51:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T12:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=29567"},"modified":"2022-01-17T13:51:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T12:51:56","slug":"saimir-tahiris-trial-gets-postponed-after-prosecutors-dont-show-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/saimir-tahiris-trial-gets-postponed-after-prosecutors-dont-show-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Saimir Tahiri\u2019s trial gets postponed after prosecutors don\u2019t show up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hearing in former internal minister, Saimir Tahiri\u2019s trial, which was expected to take place today at Tirana\u2019s District Court has been postponed.<\/p>\n<p>The reason behind his delay was the absence of SPAK\u2019s prosecutors, Vladimir Mara and Dritan Prenci, who have recently contracted COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources from SPAK, several other prosecutors from the same institution have contracted the coronavirus, thus resulting in the postponement of numerous other court hearings.<\/p>\n<p>On September 2019, the Criminal Court convicted the former minister on charges of \u2018abuse of power\u2019, thus sentencing him to 5 years behind bars \u2013 a sentence which was soon after suspended and converted to 3 years of probation services.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-minister was also accused of \u2018narcotics\u2019 trafficking\u2019 in collaboration with a highly structures criminal group, but these charges were dropped.<\/p>\n<p>The Special Appeals Tribunal against Corruption and Organized Crime has requested to have Tahiri fully indicted of all charges, whereas the Prosecution still claims that his drug trafficking sentence should be upheld.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/09\/28\/tahiri-trial-high-court-takes-case-to-special-court-of-appeals\/\">Tahiri trial, High Court takes case to Special Court of Appeals<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/08\/05\/appeal-court-leaves-former-deputy-interior-minister-to-house-arrest\/\">Appeal court leaves former deputy interior minister to house arrest<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/08\/02\/spak-appeals-courts-decision-rejecting-new-probe-against-former-minister\/\">SPAK appeals court\u2019s decision rejecting new probe against former minister<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hearing in former internal minister, Saimir Tahiri\u2019s trial, which was expected to take place today at Tirana\u2019s District Court has been postponed. The reason behind his delay was the absence of SPAK\u2019s prosecutors, Vladimir Mara and Dritan Prenci, who have recently contracted COVID-19. According to sources from SPAK, several other prosecutors from the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":29568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Saimir Tahiri\u2019s trial gets postponed after prosecutors don\u2019t show up - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/saimir-tahiris-trial-gets-postponed-after-prosecutors-dont-show-up\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Saimir Tahiri\u2019s trial gets postponed after prosecutors don\u2019t show up - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The hearing in former internal minister, Saimir Tahiri\u2019s trial, which was expected to take place today at Tirana\u2019s District Court has been postponed. 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