Investigative program Fiks Fare proved tonight how easy it is to buy a certificate of Bulgarian origin in Ostren in Bulqiza, regardless of what origin you actually have.
The illegal practice is reportedly used by Albanian citizens to get an EU passport.
For 100 thousand Lek Fiks bought two such certificates signed and sealed by Ostren’s administrator, Luan Mjeshtri.
The certificates were obtained by submitting photocopies of certificates of a resident of Patos, with grandparents from the Trebisht Administrative Unit, and the second one for a resident of Stërbleva, with grandparents from Stërbleva and Librazhd in central Albania. The origin of the two families had nothing to do with the Ostren Administrative Unit.
These certificates are issued against the sums of 90 or 100 thousand ALL and are used to obtain a Bulgarian passport.
Fiks Fare brought the first conversations with the employee of the Ostren Administrative Unit who asked for 85,000 Lek for the document, determining that 50,000 Lek is for authentication and 35,000 for notarization.
The first certificate showed that the citizen born in Patos of Fier belonged to the Bulgarian minority in Albania, even though the person’s parents were from Celebia and Trebishti, an administrative unit that is not related to Ostren.
The second certificate was purchased from the General Secretary of the Municipality, Fitim Balla, a certificate which was obtained for a resident of Librazhdi. The latter’s parents were born in Stërbleva, an administrative unit that is not related to Ostren.
In the first certificate, the law on civil status is cited, which gives the right to sign documents with personal data only to the employee of the civil status, while in the second, the law of local self-government is cited, which does not give any competence to an administrator of the firm.
None of the laws state that an administrator can issue certificates of origin for citizens.
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