Tirana mayor Erion Veliaj during his arrest in February. Photo: LSA. Wiretap transcripts published by Albanian online media outlet CNA suggest that jailed Tirana Mayor Erion Veliaj orchestrated a ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Kasowitz LLP (New York) and Mishcon de Reya LLP (London) today announced the public release of an Updated Veliaj Report, titled "Report Regarding the Political ...

Kasowitz LLP today released a report examining the fundamental due process defects underlying the continued detention and prosecution of Erion Veliaj, the Mayor of Tirana, Albania. Today's report supp ...

NEW YORK, June 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, New York-based Kasowitz LLP and London-based Mishcon de Reya LLP representing Erion Veliaj, the Mayor of Tirana, announce the public release of a Report ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — An Albanian court on Wednesday decided that the capital’s mayor should remain in custody while he is investigated for corruption involving public funds. The Special Court for ...

The mayor of Tirana was once tipped to be Albania’s next prime minister. Now he's behind bars after being arrested on graft charges, possibly facing a very different future. Mayor of Tirana Erion ...

TIRANA, Albania, Feb. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Today marks the one-year anniversary of Mayor Erion Veliaj's unjust and unlawful detention by the Special Structure Against Corruption and Organized ...

Erion Veliaj was re-elected as Mayor of Tirana in June 2019, after being firstly elected as the 42nd Mayor of Tirana in June 2015. Prior to his tenure, Veliaj served as a Member of Parliament of ...

TIRANA, Albania — An Albanian court on Wednesday decided that the capital’s mayor should remain in custody while he is investigated for corruption involving public funds. The Special Court for ...