Five officials of the municipality of Rrogozhina were arrested after being accused of abusing the reconstruction process, causing a damage of 353 million ALL to the state.
From the investigation of the Durrës Police, it turned out that these citizens have committed at least 78 cases where the apartments for which compensation was given due to earthquake damage were not for housing, but objects such as pig sheds and cows.
Besim Ballabani, Xhemile Uku, Mario Meka, Elton Levonja and Edlira Ramaj have fallen into police custody .
According to the sources from the Durrës Prosecutor's Office, it turns out that the investigations in their charge started after the denunciations from residents of Rogozhina who complained that abuses had been made during the earthquake damage verification process and that people who had not suffered damage in their homes had benefited. theirs.
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The Prosecutor's Office at the Court of First Instance of the General Jurisdiction of Durrës has ordered "imprisonment" measures for five officials of the Rrogozhin Municipality who are accused of having committed the criminal offenses of "Abuse of duty", "Forgery" and "Fraud" with funds. of reconstruction, causing damage to the state budget in the amount of ALL 353,471,090.
The Court of First Instance of Durres General Jurisdiction has approved the request of the Durres Prosecutor's Office for the following citizens: MM (former employee of Rrogozhin Municipality), Xh.U. (currently responsible for the Office of Youth and Sports, Rrogozhin Municipality), BB (employee in Rrogozhin Municipality), EL (former employee, Rrogozhin Municipality), ER (currently specialist in the human resources office, Rrogozhin Municipality).
The investigation shows that the aforementioned citizens have committed the above criminal offenses in at least 78 cases. The investigation shows that the flats for which the compensation was given due to the damage caused by the earthquake were not for shelter, but in their files other objects were noted, including pig and cow sheds.
Also, in addition to the detained persons, the 78 citizens who cooperated for the benefit of the reconstruction funds are also under investigation. The latter are accused of the criminal offense "Fraud" provided for by Article 143 of the Criminal Code.