Four months after the Ministry of Urban Development published data from
the audit report for 145 civil employees, who are suspected of having
received soft loans against the law, the Tirana Prosecution advanced
with the investigation by asking the Prime Ministry to hand over the
practice followed by this institution since 2010.
Sources from the Prosecution General declared that after studying the cases they have asked the documentation of the Prime Minister’s office for six former high-rank officials of the Berisha government, for whom they have found discrepancies regarding the decision number 600 of the Council of Ministers, dated 12 September 2007.
The Prosecutors want to seize the practice for two former advisers of the Prime Minister Sali Berisha, Flamur Kuci, former adviser for the infrastructure, and Admir Drago, former adviser for the legal issues. They also have demanded the same materials for the former Chief of Cabinet of the Berisha government, Oerd Bylykbashi, the former Deputy Minister of Justice, Brikena Kasmi, the former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Edit Harxhi, and the former Deputy Minister of Social Affairs, Spiro Ksera.
Meanwhile, the Prosecutors have the audit report and the way how the former Minister of Interior, Flamur Noka, has received a soft loan. Prosecutors say that if the suspicions are proved that these officials have received the soft loans by abusing with the law, by depositing documents as homeless, they might not be taken as defendants.
The investigations will focus on the people who have signed these practices, which, according to the regulation, should be the General Secretary or the Minister, before the material passed for approval.
The audit report for the abuses with the loans has been given to some Prosecutors at the Task Force, because the voluminous material.
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