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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Llazar Semini

Prosecutors want a former Albanian prime minister under house arrest on corruption charges

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Albanian prosecutors on Tuesday asked lawmakers to strip former Prime Minister Sali Berisha of his parliamentary immunity because he did not abide by their previous decision to report regularly while he is being investigated for corruption.

Prosecutors of the country’s Special Court on Corruption and Organized Crime, which was created in 2019 to handle high-level graft cases, asked for Parliament's clearance to put Berisha under arrest or house arrest.

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