Two former top local leaders in Lezha added land to the coast

Along with them, they are charged with “The use of duty” and eight other local officials, mainly from the property registration office, as well as another person, Altin Mija, who is the beneficiary of different lands whose value is estimated at 13m euros.

The prosecution announced that he has already sent the case for trial, while the surfaces of the ground were earlier placed under sequentone.

The investigation began in 2019 and, according to the prosecution, <x0 ... illegal activity has started with the definition of the parcel, which is owned by state, finding persons interested to be equipped with land, forging property documents from the origin of property to property certificates. In this criminal activity, the criminally profitable property persons have included other people, among them the closest and known ones, passing over their assets and then with a final goal to switch to their ownership”.

The two former top local government leaders in Lezha, Frokaj and Ndoka, as well as other former officials, were arrested in 2018 for the removal of more than 230 thousand square metres, but on the coast. They were later released, while the trial process follows in the Shkodra Court of Appeal. /voa/