They abused the reconstruction funds, the Durrës Court leaves 3 officials of the Rrogozhinë municipality in prison

Three of the five officials of the Municipality of Rrogozhina, accused of a damage of over 353 million ALL through the abuse of reconstruction funds, will continue to remain in custody.

Arrested the day before, they appeared this Tuesday in front of the Durrës Court, where the prosecutor of the case, Mediana Meta, initially requested the continuation of the security measure of detention in prison for the fifth.

Yes, due to the special circumstances of the two officials, one a mother of a child under 1 year old and the other with parents in custody, in addition to the defense attorneys, she also asked for lighter security measures.

The court decided that Xhemile Uku, the head of the youth and sports office in the municipality, should remain under house arrest, while Edlira Ramajn, a human resources specialist, was ordered to appear and banned from going abroad.

For the other three municipal officials, the coordinator for the right to information Besim Ballabani and former employees Mario Meka and Elton Levonja, the court confirmed the measure of arrest in prison.

The five people under investigation are suspected of abuse of office, forgery and fraud, as part of an investigation that revealed abuses in at least 78 cases of reconstruction funds.

The investigation of the Durrës Prosecutor's Office began after the residents of Rrogozhina reported manipulations during the process of verifying the damage from the 2019 earthquake. The officials are accused of having filled out fictitious files for houses damaged by the earthquake, including undamaged objects, such as and those that were not used for housing. Many uninjured citizens have actually benefited from compensation even for sheds where they kept cows and pigs.

In addition to the officials, 78 other people who benefited from this fraud scheme are under investigation.