Kastriot Ismailaj renounces the request to be released from prison, claims to leave the cell in October 2023

2023-03-09 16:37:01Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Kastriot Ismailaj renounces the request to be released from prison, claims to
Ilir Meta and Kastriot Ismailaj

Kastriot Ismailaj, the most talked about person in the corrupt agreement between "CEZ Albania" and the company "DIA", has decided to give up his request to the court of Fier, to be released on bail.

Ismailaj, is serving an 11-year sentence in Fier prison. But a few months ago he asked to be released from the cell, as according to his claims, he had served most of his sentence.

"Ora News" learns that the next session was scheduled to take place yesterday, March 8, in the court of Fier, where the judge of the case, Alfred Konomi, has recognized a second request that Ismailaj submitted by mail to the court's secretariat.

The businessman has asked to waive the request for conditional release, automatically showing his will to continue staying in the prison premises of Fier.

According to sources from Fier prison, Ismailaj has served more than 2/3 of the sentence given by the Tirana court. From the performed calculations, it has resulted that Ismailaj completes the entire sentence in October 2023.

Ismailaj, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for the charge of "Fraud with large sums" and "Cleaning the proceeds of a criminal offense".

The businessman is the owner of the company "DIA", which concluded an agreement with "CEZ-Albania" in order to collect the financial debts of customers who had financial obligations in non-payment of electricity in Albania.

But this deal was a total failure and fraud worth 5 million euros in damages. Due to the large losses suffered by the company based in Prague and the non-collection of debts, the Albanian state decided to remove the Czech energy company, "CEZ-Albania".

As a result, CEZ started an arbitration process against Albania for damages and Albania was forced to pay CEZ 95 million euros to regain ownership of the company.

While in Albania, the prosecution launched a parallel criminal process, arresting Kastriot Ismailaj and sentencing him to 11 years in prison.

Together with the latter, they confiscated 5 million euros in his bank accounts, bypassing the state budget. The "CEZ Albania" and "DIA" agreement continues to be investigated by SPAK and shows concern for high state officials.

After not more than 3 weeks on this issue, SPAK prosecutors interrogated Ilir Meta, who held the position of Minister of Economy and Energy during the period of the contract.


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