
"They came from other districts, they planted drugs and they tell me why you didn't show it. Where can I find them, I don't smell".
This call comes from detention 313 with the confession of the headman of the village of Noje, Haxhi Murati, who has been detained for a year on the charge of abuse of office.
As a local administrator since 2015, he has been escorted by the local police dozens of times after destroying plots in the mountains. But recently he ended up under investigation by SPAK, which hit a structured criminal group.
However, the investigation proved that the old man did not know any of the members of the group and that the offense he had committed was one that penalizes any old man. He had not seen the drug growers and what happened in the village he administered. For this reason, the SPAK declared its lack of competence and transferred the investigation of the 70-year-old to an ordinary prosecutor's office, which suspects him of abuse of office because he did not act according to his competences.
Without a court decision whether he is guilty or not, the elderly person has posted requests to the court not only with the argument of age, innocence but also that they forgot him in the cell.
What do you expect from justice?
Murati: Actually, I have no guilt whatsoever
This is what all the arrested say, but what is your alibi?
Murati: They don't have any kind of fact that I am connected to criminal groups or that I have helped them, in any way. No drugs were planted in my village either
During this time in prison, Haxhi Murati got to know other elders like him, who are suspected of committing the same crime, that of neglecting to tell what was happening in the village. Last year, 128 people, among them employees of OSHEE or water and sewerage, ended up in handcuffs as accused of abuse of duty after the disposal of drug parcels. But in these data the chief elders lead, since 69 people were handcuffed
Will you return to your position as chief?
Murati: No, I don't trust them, because they can fall on me again. I no longer take that duty
From 2018, it turns out that 457 elders were arrested for the same offense, and that they all insisted on their innocence with the argument that it was impossible to control the territory. /Top channel
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