{"id":30624,"date":"2022-01-31T14:41:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T13:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=30624"},"modified":"2022-01-31T14:41:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T13:41:45","slug":"prosecutors-ask-court-to-sentence-tahiri-to-12-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecutors-ask-court-to-sentence-tahiri-to-12-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors ask court to sentence Tahiri to 12 years in prison \u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors have asked the court to sentence former interior minister Saimir Tahiri, to 12 years in prison, who would then benefit from a shorter sentence of up to 8 years.<\/p>\n<p>Tahiri\u2019s hearing is taking place today at the Special District Court in Tirana.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2019, Tirana\u2019s Criminal Court convicted the former minister for \u2018abuse of power\u2019, sentencing him to 5 years in prison \u2013 a verdict which was annulled following a higher court order, which converted Tahiri\u2019s sentence to 3-years-probation.<\/p>\n<p>Tahiri was also accused of \u2018narcotics trafficking\u2019 in collaboration with a structured criminal group, but these charges were also dismissed in court.<\/p>\n<p>The Special Appeals Court against Corruption and Organized Crime is now asking to have Tahiri acquitted on all counts, but this <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2020\/06\/11\/case-of-former-minister-tahiri-special-court-of-appeal-sets-date-of-final-decision\/\">decision<\/a> <\/strong>is facing resistance from the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecution (SPAK), who is insisting to have the ex-minister sentenced over drug-trafficking charges.<\/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\/2022\/01\/17\/saimir-tahiris-trial-gets-postponed-after-prosecutors-dont-show-up\/\">Saimir Tahiri\u2019s trial gets postponed after prosecutors don\u2019t show up<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\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<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"eneu29567\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors have asked the court to sentence former interior minister Saimir Tahiri, to 12 years in prison, who would then benefit from a shorter sentence of up to 8 years. Tahiri\u2019s hearing is taking place today at the Special District Court in Tirana. In September 2019, Tirana\u2019s Criminal Court convicted the former minister for \u2018abuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":30625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151,419,418],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Prosecutors ask court to sentence Tahiri to 12 years in prison \u00a0\u00a0 - 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\/prosecutors-ask-court-to-sentence-tahiri-to-12-years-in-prison\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Prosecutors ask court to sentence Tahiri to 12 years in prison \u00a0\u00a0 - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prosecutors have asked the court to sentence former interior minister Saimir Tahiri, to 12 years in prison, who would then benefit from a shorter sentence of up to 8 years. 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