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After being accused of the 17 million euro waste scandal, the mayor of Durrës began selling off assets and issuing fictitious debts. The case was opened in 2023; but the investigation has been frozen, and millions of euros have disappeared from the radar of justice...
For five years in the position of deputy mayor and then, since April 2020, as mayor of the Municipality of Durrës, Emiriana Sako has built a refined system of bargaining and taking bribes, which is evidenced by her numerous assets, camouflaged through ghost family companies. But knowing that sooner or later she would become the subject of a criminal investigation, Sako has masterfully implemented the scheme of hiding assets according to the manual of corrupt government officials: with fictitious sales, fabricated debts and relocation of assets in the name of trusted persons.
This scheme began to be implemented immediately after a criminal complaint was filed against her for the 17 million euro waste affair, followed by an investigation opened in July 2022 and criminal proceedings in April 2023.
According to internal sources, the mayor was notified in advance of the launch of the investigation by a prosecutor close to her husband in the SPAK structures, which gave her time to react quickly to eliminate any trace of the property.
According to documents obtained by "Pamfleti", during 2023 alone, Emiriana Sako, through her husband Landi Shahini, has made numerous asset sales and has given fictitious debts, in order to avoid seizure.
Some of the main actions carried out by Sako to hide assets:
-On September 14, 2022, he sells a 131 m² apartment for 151 thousand euros.
-On March 7, 2023, he sells two service units with an area of 23 m² and 14.6 m² for 28 thousand and 21 thousand euros, respectively.
-In the period March-December 2023, he sells a total of 22 other properties, with a declared value of 1.2 million euros.
-On January 25, 2023, he gives a "debt" of 200 thousand euros; on July 12, 45 thousand euros; on March 15, 40 thousand euros; while during the months of July-September 2023, he declares a debt of 332 thousand euros.
Furthermore, three suspicious amounts have been identified: 64 thousand euros, 25 thousand euros and 20 thousand euros, which Sako claims derive from the sale of assets, but which do not match official data and the real circulation of monetary assets.
Despite all this movement and clear signs of wealth laundering through simulated debts, SPAK summoned the mayor for questioning on May 17, 2024 and then remained silent. For more than a year, the file has been frozen. No new investigative act has been carried out, despite numerous indications of criminal offenses such as: abuse of office, money laundering and concealment of assets.
What remains unclear is not only SPAK's silence, but also the fact that a figure so flagrantly involved in a well-organized wealth network has neither been arrested, nor prosecuted, nor dismissed from the public office he used to enrich himself personally.
This apathy of justice is no longer simply a matter of incompetence or technical delay, it is part of a sustainable scheme of political and institutional protection. The silence of SPAK, the inactivity of BKH and the total lack of reaction from the government of Edi Rama, give Emiriana Sako not only a shield, but also a clear signal to continue the pattern of plundering institutions and public assets. In this way, all those who do not act become silent collaborators in a corrupt system that continues to erode public trust in justice and the state. And this is no longer a problem of a municipality: it is a problem of a republic. /Pamphlet
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