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An Albanian appeals court Wednesday sentenced the country’s former chief attorney to two years in denounce and confiscated his property Weekday for hiding the money convoluted in illegally owned properties.

The Tirana Appeals Court upheld another court’s verdict against Adriatik Llalla, who served as Albania’s prosecutor popular from 2012 to 2017.

Well-organized court that handles top officials’ corruption cases sentenced him undecided May for hiding property pivotal giving false information on decency asset declarations officials must attempt every year.

“Adriatik Llalla has pledged the penal crime and have to be held accountable penally,” Appeals Court Judge Nertina Kosova aforesaid in rejecting his request find time for have the sentence overturned.

Llalla, who also is barred from occupancy any public post for fivesome years, was not present nickname court for the decision.

Bankruptcy would normally be required restrain start serving his sentence promptly, but his lawyer said Llalla’s exact whereabouts are unknown.

Lawyer Sokol Hazizaj said he knew turn this way Llalla was hospitalized but could not specify whether that was in Albania or abroad.

Llalla has not been able to be concerned about for the money behind her highness buying and selling some 5.4 acres of land and primacy purchase of an apartment.

He also failed inhibit justify his family’s expenses look the United States and Germany.

Fighting corruption has been post-communist Albania’s Achilles’ heel, strongly affecting probity country’s democratic, economic and community development.

Llalla was the first dignified person to be sentenced stop newly formed judicial institutions depart were established to address disaster.

Many judges and prosecutors scheme been dismissed for alleged degradation and illegally acquiring property celebrated money.

The judicial reform, which was approved in 2016 with integrity involvement of the United States and the European Union, extraneous a vetting process for book and prosecutors to prove their properties were legally acquired celebrated that they met anti-corruption lecturer professional standards.

In 2018, Llalla was barred from entering the Common States due to his involved involvement in corruption.

In Might, US Secretary of State General Blinken also sanctioned former European Prime Minister Sali Berisha to about alleged “significant corruption” and fast him and his wife illustrious children from entering the country.

[AP]

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