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State Police foiled Iranian plot to attack MEK members in Albania

Politiko 24 Tetor 2019, 19:09
State Police foiled Iranian plot to attack MEK members in Albania

State Police General Director Ardi Veliu said in a press conference on Wednesday that the law enforcement had thwarted a terrorist attack in Albania. Veliu said that a terrorist cell operating in Albania and allegedly supported by the Iranian authorities had conspired to carry out a terrorist attack on 22 March 2018 – Sultan Nowruz Day – targeting Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK, group members in Albania. Veliu said the alleged cell leader’s family name was Peyman, describing him as an Iran-based operative of the Quds Force, the overseas wing of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

He said Peyman had sent another Iranian cell member, Alireza Nagha-Shazadeh, identified as a former MEK member with an Austrian passport, to Albania several times to gather information for a planned attack on the group. The State Police General Director named the third Iranian suspect as Abdolkhalegh Malek-Zadeh, who he said was based in Turkey and had been working for the past two years with a Turkish man named Abdulselam Turgut to plan terrorist attacks at the behest of Peyman and the Quds Force. Veliu also accused both Malek-Zadeh and Turgut of having links to organized crime. Newspapers quoted journalist Artan Hoxha as saying that Turgut had been arrested in February 2011 upon his arrival at the Tirana International Airport on the basis of an international arrest warrant issued by the German authorities.

The first instance court ruled to confirm his jail arrest, Hoxha said, but the Turkish citizen challenged the ruling at the Court of Appeals, getting a house arrest ruling from a panel of judges chaired by Gjin Gjoni. Hoxha said that the address given for the execution of Turgut’s house arrest security measure was that of an unfinished apartment building located at the Kamza turn. Turgut went missing immediately after the court ruling, Hoxha said.

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