Meta accuses prosecutors of misinformation from prison

2026-03-12 19:14:00, Aktualitet CNA

Freedom Party President Ilir Meta has reacted from prison after the preliminary court hearing, accusing prosecutors of avoiding evidence that, according to him, proves his innocence.

Meta stated that the prosecution has refused to accept the SMI/PL statute as evidence and has admitted that only he personally, not the party, is being investigated for the lobbying issue.

He stressed that the investigation was biased and his legitimate income was overlooked to create artificial suspicions of money laundering and passive corruption.

Meta asked the court to order a comprehensive expertise on him, starting from 1992, when he was elected MP, to the present day, arguing that only in this way can it be proven that he has not committed any illegal actions.

He also denounced the failure to calculate legal income from per diems and salaries over the years, as well as the use of unfounded accusations to implicate other political names in legal matters.

Meta concluded the statement by criticizing the prosecutors' stance and warning that there will be additional clarifications in the coming days.

Meta's statement

I thought I wouldn't react today, since the embassies were disappointed with Ramaforma for obstructing justice.

But since my preliminary hearing also took place today, following a report by journalist Armand Bajrami requested by you, I decided to inform you concisely that the prosecutors, instead of reflecting, delved even further into misinforming the court.

In a sincere manner, the prosecutor requested that the statute of the SMI - PL, approved by the court, which also determines the instances responsible for the party's financial expenses, not be taken as evidence.

The prosecutor even said that the SMI is not even being investigated for the lobbying issue, but only Ilir Meta.

He was very honest, because they are not investigating the case, but have declared the culprit and cannot provide evidence, because "Bilal's Wife" will not let them, who today came out openly with the slogan that the fight against corruption has become more harmful than corruption.

Ilir Meta has no contract with GSIS or any American company.

The contract was between LSI and GSIS and was very well defined as to how services and payments were performed.

It is proven that Ilir Meta does not have any signature and was not aware of any irregular actions.

Today we also submitted to the court the interview published on September 5, 2016 in MAPO magazine, where the US Ambassador, Mr. Donald Lu, clearly states that he has supported all of Speaker Meta's visits to Washington.

On the issue of lobbying, we requested that the letters of recommendation be declared invalid because they were not based on a legal contract, but on lies and untruths.

The prosecutor surprised us all when he admitted that his accounting expert had not calculated Ilir Meta's legal income from March 1992 (as a member of parliament) until 2002, with the excuse that there were no suspicions of corruption during that period.

Likewise, the prosecutor argued that the income from the allowances that Ilir Meta received over 30 years had not been calculated, with the idea that they had been spent and could not be saved.

I must clarify that in just 1 year as Foreign Minister, due to my duties, I received almost 15 thousand euros in allowances.

So I asked the judge to order a comprehensive expertise on my person, from March 22, 1992, when I was elected MP, to the present day.

The failure to calculate these legal incomes by the Albanian state was done only to deceive the court that I allegedly did not justify my expenses with legal income, in order to invent an absurd charge of money laundering, which would of course justify the other, even more absurd charge of passive corruption.

A new lie was that in order to implicate me in the approval of the mining law, initiated and approved by Edi Rama, they unrelatedly included Mr. Dritan Kaba, as if he was Advisor to the Speaker of Parliament, while Mr. Kaba was Advisor to the LSI Parliamentary Group.

I once again reiterated the request that the court administer as evidence the session when this law was approved in Parliament, which clearly shows the implication of Edi Rama.

Regarding the other lie that they had not investigated the American lady at the DIA because she was not found to be involved, I asked them in court with whose signature Kastriot Ismailaj was dismissed as Administrator of the DIA on December 1, 2014.

Likewise, I invited them to read once again the e-mail sent by Mr. Hejsek to the Board of Directors in Prague, which also includes the names of the 3 American shareholders, including the American lady.

Regarding this issue, I asked you to also read the interview with Ms. Vojsava Ismailaj about what she said about the American lady and why she should have been arrested and imprisoned, according to her.

These are "very special"!

They don't intentionally count over 300 thousand legal euros from the Albanian state to get you into a "deficit".

A very simple question for every citizen:

How is it explained that one of these 3 prosecutors, with 19 years of work, declared three real estate properties in 2019?

While Ilir Meta, 33 years as a paid MP, since March '92, and then Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Speaker of Parliament, President of the Republic, today does not own any real estate?

And of course not a single cent seized?

You will be surprised by many other errors in the coming days./ CNA