Former AKR official arrested in Sweden, suspected of extortioning thousands of euros

The District Court in Malmo, Sweden, has arrested Sabit Pacolli for major fraud in 2015, 2017, and 2017. He was arrested Thursday week we are leaving behind while going to a meeting at the Swedish Tax Agency..

I wanted to make sure our preliminary investigation ended before the Swedish Tax Agency” investigation, prosecutor Bo Birgerson said, broadcast Koha.net.

At 11:00 on Sunday. An hour and a half later, the District Court issued an arrest order.

According to Birgerson, his arrest resulted from credible allegations of misuse of money.

The district court gave a similar assessment: There was the danger that Pacolli would destroy the investigation if he were released and the danger of his flight existed.

Leif Ljungholm, Pacolli's public defense prosecutor, says his client denies the accusations.

Sabit Pacolli, businessman and former official of the New Kosovo Alliance, had denied charges last month of the Swedish newspaper “Sydvenscan” has stolen over 200,000 euros from the charity company HSB, where it itself is chairman.

“Sydvenscan” wrote an article titled “The HSB Association has been robbed, the chairman has built luxury factory and villas in Kosovo”.

According to research that the newspaper claims to have done, Pacolli's robbery amounts to two million crustaceans.

Express had written that Sabit Pacolli, former AKRUA official and businessman in Lipjan, is accused of adopting over two hundred million corons. By “Sydvenscan”, Pacolli as chairman of the Malmo Association of Housing, is suspected that some of the money provided by the Swedish state for housing was absorbed.

By “Sydvenscan”, the chairman of the Association of Housing, Sabit Pacolli, had travelled to Kosovo. He had built a luxury factory and luxurious villas.

The same portal has published a photo of Sabit Pacolli with First Deputy Prime Minister Behgjet Pacolli.

Sabit Pacolli had supported the last race, Imri Ahmeti of LDK. Before these elections, he had run for the mayor of Lipjan.

The HSB company has been robbed, while the mayor has built a luxury factory and villa in Kosovo”, writes in the title of Swedish media, which as an illustrative photograph has Sabit Pacolli.

Meanwhile, a reaction in the FB, following the publication of the Swedish newspaper's Research Express, Pacolli has said that Sė has not misused a single euro until he said that the truth would soon emerge.

It's a fake article”, Pacolli said, in a video response in FB.

I have never committed criminal acts in my life, nor have I deceived anyone. Those who know me who I am. It's false news. Soon the truth has come about this case”, he said.

These days in different media, there's a fake news coming around that I've misused the association fund I'm the Mayor of. Sabit Pacolli in the Swedish crime register is as clean as a tear. I know myself, my character, and the role I had. I've never even abused 10 euros of budgets, because that's how I was educated. The truth will soon come to light, and my lawyer is preparing charges for any man who slandered me”, Pacolli reacted in FBF, writes Express.

“Sabit Pacolli has never acted contrary to the law. Neither in Sweden nor in my hometown. I thank all those citizens and friends who have supported me, and support me in these moments set for me and my family”, he added.

According to the Swedish newspaper Pacolli as chairman of the Society, he had borrowed to make residence renovations. These unnecessary and devoid of quality building. Thus, he has put many Swedish residents in debt, who have not been aware that the Society responsible for building maintenance has borrowed to make unnecessary renovations.