TIRANA, June 11 – Former Secretary General of the Ministry of Finance Arlind Gjokutaj is officially charged. Gjokutaj is accused of “abuse of duty”.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Tirana has communicated the accusation to the former official on Sunday, while the charge of fraud with serious consequences has been communicated to Ilir Thana. In the meantime, the executor, Alban Ruli has been charged with abuse of duty and actions that prevent the discovery of the truth. In addition, the charge of abuse of office is expected to be communicated to the legal director, Fatmir Hoxha.
Gjokutaj together with the officials of the Ministry of Finance and the executor were arrested after they were accused of signing documents to pass 1.2 million euros in compensation to a citizen named Ilir Thana, who was treated as a former owner, without being such. Ilir Thana received only 400,000 euros through the bank and the rest of the money would be transferred to him in the following months. Everything was done for a warehouse that the state sold to Thana in 1992, but the Property Restitution Commission took it 3 years later to pass it on to the real owners, compensating Thana in installments with the value of the property according to the market price.
In 2021, even though he had been compensated once, Ilir Thana managed to value the property that was no longer his up to the amount of 1.2 million euros using executors. /argumentum.al
