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The persons under investigation are suspected of forgery of documents, fraud, abuse of office and laundering of the proceeds of crime.
The Durrës cadastre continues to be plagued with problems. Another scheme to alienate state property was recently discovered, leading to the imposition of 12 security measures by the Court against former officials of the Durrës Mortgage and persons suspected of having illegally acquired property.
The measures were imposed after a several-year investigation by the Prosecutor's Office, which is investigating a series of criminal offenses related to the administration and registration of properties.
According to investigative sources, the persons under investigation are suspected of forgery of documents, fraud, abuse of office and laundering of the proceeds of crime. Currently, the execution of security measures is still ongoing, while the authorities have not yet made public the identities of all the persons involved.
The investigation was launched after a detailed inventory process of mortgage registers at the Durrës Local Cadastre Directorate, where numerous irregularities were discovered that raised suspicions of intentional interference in official documentation. Out of a total of 1,063 registers checked, only 152 were found to be regular, while serious problems were found in the vast majority of them.
According to investigators, missing, replaced, duplicated or damaged pages were identified in the registers, elements that are suspected of being used to manipulate ownership data and enable the transfer of state properties in favor of private entities. The prosecution suspects that these interventions were not random, but part of an organized mechanism that has been operating for a long period.
As part of the investigation, all administrative procedures and documentation related to the registration of properties are being verified, with the aim of identifying the criminal responsibilities of each person involved. It is also being investigated how the properties were obtained and whether they were subsequently sold or transferred to third parties.
The discovery of the latest suspected scheme for the alienation of state property in Durrës is not an isolated case. For several years, this region has been at the center of investigations by justice institutions for property manipulation, document forgery, and illegal registrations at the State Cadastre Agency.
One of the most important files is that of the Special Prosecution Office against Corruption and Organized Crime (SPAK), which sent eight people to trial a week ago, accused of creating and running a criminal structure that allegedly appropriated hundreds of thousands of square meters of land in the coastal areas of Durrës. According to SPAK, the group operated through massive falsification of property documents, which were then registered in the Cadastre with the cooperation of various officials.
Investigations have revealed that the criminal activity was mainly concentrated in the Shijak–Kepi i Rodonit area, where it is suspected that the perpetrators exploited agricultural families with difficult economic conditions and elderly heads of households to manipulate the Land Acquisition Acts (AMTP). Then, through forged documents, new plots were added, fictitious maps and references were drawn up, making it possible to register the properties in favor of the persons involved in the scheme.
As part of that criminal proceeding, SPAK placed under preventive seizure properties with a total area of around 690 hectares, with an estimated value of around 17 million euros.
The scheme recently uncovered by the Durrës Prosecution Office, where 12 security measures have been imposed on former Hipoteka officials and suspected property beneficiaries, is considered another episode that raises questions about the way state properties are administered in the Durrës region. Although these are different criminal proceedings, both investigations focus on suspicions of manipulation of ownership documentation and the involvement of administration employees in the alienation of real estate.
The prosecution is expected to expand the investigation to other episodes that may be related to this suspected scheme, while the execution of security measures and procedural actions continue.
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