Elbasan incinerator case set to go trial, the SPAK prosecutors spare former-minister Ahmetaj

The court agreed to investigate the file, where among the accused there is no official, former official or representative of the Ministry of Finance at that time.

Even the Ministry of Finance itself, or the Ministry of Economy and Entrepreneurship that was headed by Ahmetaj at the time of granting the concession, are not mentioned in the file to be tried.

Instead, the former members of the bid evaluation commission who drafted the concession contract, but not the signatories of this contract, were charged, as lawyer Sajmir Visha stated at the end of the preliminary hearing.

The court’s decision overturned all the procedural alibis raised by the two prosecutors, especially their claim about dividing the file into four acts.

The same alibi was used by them every time the evidence implicating former minister Ahmetaj with this file was reported in the media.

Among the evidence published by the investigative program ‘Inside Story’ is a 1 million euro villa in the Hamallaj area, which Arben Ahmetaj owns indirectly in the name of his current partner, while earlier in the report filed by the journalist Adriatik Doçi there are also the invoices

of hotel payments that Klodian Zoto made for the former Minister of Finance.

Ironic is the fact that the evidence reported in the media about the suspected corruption of Ahmetaj came from the computers of the wanted Klodian Zoto, seized by order of the prosecutors.

But none of the two prosecutors have seen this evidence, instead saw the same invoices that implicate a former official of the Ministry of Energy, who was charged today for this case.

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