Vergine Oil trial, only drivers at court
31/01/2012 00:00
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The trial for the 16 defendants of the Vergine Oil scandal started with
none of the accused people under police custody, and two of them who
have escaped.
Most of the defendants who were in front of the judge panel led by Kreshnik Omari were the drivers of the trucks that transported the smuggled oil. In court today were presented the suspects accused for falsifying the documents of this scandal, Edmond Ferraj, former custom agent in Vlore, and former employer of the anti-smuggle, Arjan Daci, and the accused for power abuse, Dashamir Kasaj, inspector at the Tax Directory.
The main defendants of this trial, the businessman Hajri Elezaj, charged of fraud with serious consequences, and Iliaz Fisheku, accused of fraud in cooperation, have escaped from the authorities.
The court read the letter of Hajri Elezaj’s lawyer, who was asking the process to be postponed for health reasons, which was the same for Iliaz Fisheku.
According to the prosecution’s documents that have been attached to the trial request, the 17.000 tons of “Vergine” oil have not been exported, as the documents say, but had been sold in Albania after it was mixed with the imported oil, by causing not only fiscal evasion, but also by damaging the vehicles of the citizens, who bought unprocessed oil for their cars.
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