PD seeks information on 'documented revelations of institutionalised corruption'

Partit Demokratiku on Saturday expressed grave concern at the recent, well-documented revelations of extensive, institutionalised corruption involving people at the highest levels of government “on a colossal, horrifying and appalling scale”. In a statement, it said the Police Commissioner’s apparent lack of action was just as worrying. The Commissioner, PD said, was obliged by the Constitution to prevent the commission of offences, to promote and enforce observance of all laws without exception, to apply the law without any discrimination of any sort, and to perform honestly and effectively all those duties assigned to him by the Police Act or by any other law. The PM’s ludicrous justification for refusing to comment on these revelations was that he did not want to prejudice ongoing related magisterial inquiries.Magisterial inquiries, PD said, were not courts of law. An inquiry did not establish guilt or innocence but merely examined available evidence on the basis of which it was decided if criminal action needed to be taken and against whom. The Prime Minister seemed to believe that the stories being exposed by the Daphne Project and other media houses were rehashed old...