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Former chief prosecutor Eugen Beci said that politics is no longer what drives the game of power. He said that organized crime has turned the situation upside down by becoming the head of politics.
"We have to ask an important question: has organized crime overtaken it and become the boss of politics?" Until a few years ago, we saw that politics used organized crime and ordinary criminals, but used them being the boss, while today it seems that organized crime has reversed this situation. Politicians no longer order, but criminals punish politicians. Members of organized crime are no longer collaborators, but part of politics," said former chief prosecutor Beçi for the show "Pa censure".
Affirming that when leading the investigative structure against organized crime, political interventions were of all colors, Beçi makes a difference between the DP and SP governments.
"Until 2013, politics tolerated crime, after 2013 there were signs that politics is merging with crime. This is the difference," said Beçi, who is direct in answering the question of how high the crime-state connection goes.
"Up to the parliamentary level, up to the level of ministers, senior police leaders" , he said.
In the interview for the show "Pa censure", Beçi claimed that organized crime is capable not only of buying votes, but also of influencing the outcome of the elections. He told an event from the time he was a prosecutor, without saying the city where the event took place, but that it must have been in Elbasan, where he was transferred after the Serious Crimes.
"In recent years, it has been noticed that organized crime has a great influence on the vote. He gets votes by buying them and, where he cannot buy them, he takes them by force. In the case that we have investigated, during the local government elections in a city, on the day of the elections, organized crime figures sent their people to a certain alley, when it was thought that the vote was for a political wing. They patrolled that alley and did not allow voters to leave their houses to vote", said Eugen Beçi, avoiding to say which party they were helping, but clarifying that "organized crime tends to help the party that is in power".
The former chief prosecutor of Serious Crimes suggested to SPAK a way to curb vote buying and criminal involvement.
"My suggestion is that the more proactive investigations, the better it would be for the investigation and the way voting is done in Albania. "Proactive investigation means following the case and not giving the results of the investigation after the MP entered the parliament with stolen votes", said the former chief prosecutor.
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