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6 years after being dismissed by the CEC, as affected by the decriminalization law, Agim Kajmaku, former socialist mayor of the municipality of Vora, has won the financial battle with the institutions that "cut off his dream". On April 4, 2025, the Administrative Court of Tirana decided to call the CEC's decision unjust and to compensate Kajmaku.
Thus, the Municipality of Vora and the Tirana District Council are forced to pay Kajmaku all the salaries of a full, 4-year mandate, even though he only served 3 months of it.
On the other hand, the CEC is obliged to pay Kajmaku, his wife and son for the moral damage it has caused them. Approximately 15 thousand euros for the former mayor and 7 thousand euros each for his wife and son. Both the CEC and the municipality of Vora have immediately rushed to appeal this decision to the Court of Appeal.
How did Agim Kajmaku escape?
Kajmaku had a long history with the Albanian judiciary, shortly after he was elected mayor of Vora in 2019, in a race without competitors, after the opposition boycotted the elections. But a series of documents later published by the Democratic Party, about his past, led initially to his dismissal from office on November 1, 2019, just 3 months after taking office, and then to the request for his arrest.
It turned out that Kajmaku had been arrested in Greece on charges of counterfeiting money, under a different name, and that he had not declared this fact on the decriminalization form. The former mayor initially denied the accusation, but when fingerprints confirmed that it was the same person, he submitted the decision of the Ioannina Court which had declared him innocent.
The request for his arrest came because he was suspected of having signed the dismissal of two vice-presidents of the Albanian People's Party, at a time when he himself had been dismissed by the Central Election Commission. For months he remained on the run, until he was arrested, while being admitted to a private hospital for treatment, in early July 2020. But a day later, the arrest measure was converted into an "obligation to appear". In February of this year, the Tirana Court dismissed the open case against him and the prosecution was forced to appeal to the Court of Appeal.
At that time, through a post on Twitter, Rama said: "The CEC has proven again today that it is an institution of the Albanian state that protects the law and the public interest, not the old tool of the parties as it was until yesterday? Likewise, the Socialist Party has proven again today that it does not become a refuge for anyone who undertakes to violate the law and our trust."
Likewise, the former mayor of Vora, Agim Kajmaku, was arrested by Italian police on suspicion of drug trafficking on May 27, 2022. When he was caught with 20 kg of cocaine in the San Benedetto del Tronto area, Kajmaku was with his nephew./ Shqiptarja.com
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