Donald Lu’s ‘bomb’: Arrests among ‘big heads’ expected in January

US Ambassador in Albania Donald Lu is expecting to see some arrests among “big heads” come January, hoping for results in the fight against criminality. Lu made his statement while presenting the two FBI agents that have come to help the Albanian authorities.

“Our police assistance program is prepared to have an international advisor working inside of this interagency task force.  Our prosecutorial and police assistance will support the development of new institutions to fight organized crime – SPAK and NBI.  And we have a new FBI special agent who specializes in transnational organized crime and will be working in Tirana for several months to support this effort”, Lu said.

“We are putting our money where our mouth is.

In America we have another saying – “There is no such thing as a free lunch.”  If America and EU countries are going to devote our resources and our credibility to this war against organized crime, we expect results.

What do we expect?  We expect that this aggressive plan by the Albanian Government will result in the arrest and prosecution of several big fish early next year, and that this success will continue in 2018 with the SPAK and NBI.

Albania’s international partners expect this.  The people of Albania demand and deserve this”.

“This is a problem not of one party; this is a problem that has plagued Albanian politics since the fall of communism.  The Albanian people have our assurance that the United States will engage strongly against organized crime no matter what links it has with powerful people, including powerful politicians, judges, prosecutors or businessmen.  No one is above the law.

In Albanian, you say, “The big fish eats the little ones.”  Let us for once eat the big fish in Albania”.