A turbulent summer for Igli Tara. After leaving Milan, he could also face legal troubles in Albania, his country of origin, where he has ended up under investigation.
According to sources at the Albanian Special Prosecution Office against Organized Crime and Corruption (SPAK), the former Milan sports director is suspected of "money laundering" as part of the investigation into former Albanian Deputy Prime Minister, Belinda Balluku, initially accused of "violations in tender procedures."
Today, the Prosecution (SPAK) announced that it has registered Igli Tara in the register of persons under investigation for the criminal offense of "corruption".
The suspected connection between Igli Tare and Belinda Balluku would have to do with a villa on the Albanian Ionian coast, within a tourist complex.
The apartment was allegedly offered to the former deputy prime minister as a bribe for a contract awarded to a construction company at the time she was running the air traffic control company Albcontrol.
To lose track of the operation, the villa was registered in the name of Igli Tare, who, according to investigators, would have signed "a fictitious rental contract with Balluk's former chief of staff."
The prosecution claims that, de facto, the apartment would belong to the former deputy prime minister, who would have used it together with her family during these years.
Igli Tare was subjected to questioning at the Prosecutor's Office, from which he left after about six hours without making any statement to journalists.
