A videoconference meeting was held this morning between the Italian and Albanian authorities, always united by a strong partnership in the fight against crime which is also expressed through various international projects financed by the European Union and which today sees seven Joint Investigation Teams active. , joint teams for investigating transnational crime with Italian investigative bodies.
The meeting was attended by the Deputy Director General of Public Security, Vittorio Rizzi, the Director of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate (DIA), Maurizio Vallone, the Head of the Albanian Special Prosecutor's Office (SPO) for organized crime and the fight against corruption, Arben Kraja, and the Director of the Office for Special Investigations (NBI).
The meeting follows the recent visit of Prefect Rizzi to Albania, promoted by the Italian Ambassador to Tirana, Fabrizio Bucci for the creation of a permanent technical table aimed at defining the strategies aimed at regulating joint activities of a technical-operational nature for the to transnational crime.
In the same perspective, today's videoconference had the aim of illustrating to the Albanian authorities the structure and operating methods of the DIA in the fight against mafias in the national and international field which could be a reference for the new Albanian Office for Special Investigations (NBI ) which will deal with organized crime and corruption offenses.
Precisely in this period the selections for the investigators who will have to be part of the NBI are taking place and the Director Vallone has offered the availability of the DIA to ensure operational training in Italy for Albanian police operators to illustrate the complexity of the Italian approach, on the preventive and repressive front, in the fight against organized crime.