an hour agoVolunteer theft of Albanian deputies, extortion of up to 1100 euros per month detected
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)If a simple citizen of this country is caught in legal violations by counterfeiting documents and thus obtaining payments to harm the state budget, he is immediately imprisoned, but apparently MPs from the Republic of Albania are immune in this respect. This is the conclusion in which an ISP study appears. [...]
If a simple citizen of this country is caught in legal violations by counterfeiting documents and thus obtaining payments to harm the state budget, he is immediately imprisoned, but apparently MPs from the Republic of Albania are immune in this respect.
This is the conclusion in which an ISP (Political Studies Institute) study appears, which has asked the Albanian Assembly for an immediate investigation to prevent the abuses Albanian MPs commit with the taxes of citizens.
Abuse consists of the fact that many of the MPs receive payment “ekstra” in amounts ranging from 500 to 1100 euros a month because they declare they have nowhere to live in Tirana, and thus cannot do their work as MPs. But the truth is quite different, since many deputies of other districts (reside from Tirana) have houses in the capital, even villas, but in order to benefit these extra payments for accommodation and transportation, they claim that their residence is in other cities.
Here are the ISP conclusions:
ISP KUVENTION: ABUSISM OF ABUSISM DEPUTIES WITH PAGESAT FICTIVE
At least MPs, although having private apartments in verifiable Tirana (second, third, even owners of apartment buildings, etc), declare another settlement in the country, mainly in remote electoral areas. With this action, they receive special financial treatment for the housing trip, which runs from 500 to 1100 euros per month. So, through formal statements (registering programmes in electoral areas), they are officially considered homeless in Tirana and treated as such, although they own apartments, villas, or other private and family dwellings in Tirana. Absurdi, under which citizens' taxes pay dearly at parliamentary hotel prices sleeping in their second/private house, deserves immediate attention and institutional response.
The ISP estimates that it has to do with speculation in statements and flagrant violations of the law, illegal embezzlement of payments for accommodation, etc., a criminal offence for which any other citizen in RS can be sentenced to prison. In the case of MPs who have made such statements, there has been no investigation and no actual investigative practice. The regulation of the Parliament and the law on MP status do not specify verification mechanisms, but they take good on the MP's own statement by proceeding directly with monthly payments.
The full letter is in place, and statements made by MPs are in touch.
