A strong development in the incinerator case comes from Austria and could add another dimension to the investigative documentary being prepared there.
Exclusive resources for Shqip.com inform that Mirel Mërtiri has been handed over to Austria with materials and evidence related to the incinerator affair. Mertiri is one of the main figures in this case and has been wanted for a long time.
But what makes this development even more important is the coincidence with another story that is taking place in Austria.
Austrian director and producer Frederik Füssel is working on an investigative documentary based on the testimony of a person from Albania, whose identity has not been made public. The witness claims to have materials documenting payments, sums of money and names of persons he accuses of being involved in corrupt schemes.
In one of the published excerpts, Füssel is shown holding a USB stick, which the witness claims contains payment data.
“You have names, the amount of money, you have data, you also have the reasons why this money was paid to them”, says the witness, reports Shqip.com.
Journalist: So what’s on this USB?
Witness: All data, all payments…
Journalist: So through this USB you can go to all…?
Witness: All the people I am accusing today.
Now, the information that Mirel Mërtiri has been delivered to Austria with materials related to the incinerators puts the documentary being prepared there in a different light.
Is Mërtiri the Albanian who has decided to speak? Are the materials he took with him the ones that appear in the Austrian director’s documentary?
The connection is strong. Mërtiri, one of the main names of the incinerator file, is in Austria with evidence related to this case, while in the same country a documentary is being prepared on the testimony of an Albanian who claims to be able to show not only the names, but also the amount of money, the payments and the reasons why they were made.
The union of the links may turn into one of the most important developments of the incinerator affair, he writes Shqip.com.
Now it remains only for the evidence to speak and the documentary to bring everything to light. If the names and tipped-off payments lead to government people, then the incinerators can backfire in a domino effect: the power chains involved collapse one after the other in the face of evidence and justice.
