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The announcement of the wanted notary Majlinta Demollari is just the tip of a much larger iceberg that has been sinking the notary system in Albania for years. This system, which in theory should guarantee the legal security of contracts, properties and assets, has become one of the most dangerous links for the legitimacy of the rule of law. Notaries today are no longer guarantors of public trust, but preferred accessories of organized crime, launderers of dirty money and signatories of multi-million frauds.
Demollari's case is not the first. Before her, names like Sanja Telhallari, described by the intelligence structures themselves as the "money laundering notary for the gambling and construction clans", have been at the center of denunciations for forgeries, suspicious property transfers, contracts with imprisoned persons or abroad, and in the meantime have continued to operate untouched. The same model seems to have worked for Majlinta Demollari, for whom suspicions have been raised of involvement in fictitious property schemes, transfers and forged signatures in the absence of the parties.
The scandal deepens when it is understood that this entire network of notaries connected to the underworld has developed under the watchful eyes of the Ministry of Justice. The body responsible for licensing, controlling and punishing notarial violations has failed to exercise its function. There have been neither regular inspections nor proper disciplinary investigations, and when they have been carried out, they have been closed with ridiculous measures, such as “written warnings” or “symbolic suspensions”.
In practice, a large portion of notaries have become an "exclusive service" for criminal and political elites, who use their seals to legalize illegal assets, to fictitiously arrange inheritances usable for construction developments, to make transactions covered by a notary's signature, giving crime a legal appearance.
Everyone knows. Nobody does anything.
SPAK has so far been selective in investigating notaries, focusing on isolated cases only when public pressure has become unbearable. But when millions of euros, state property and offshore companies cross a notary's desk, there can no longer be talk of "coincidence". This is a national scheme for legalizing illegality, with a signature and a seal.
Therefore, more than an arrest or a wanted notice is required today. A full audit of the notary system by an independent body is required and an in-depth investigation of all contracts and deeds-agreements signed by notaries who are mentioned in criminal files is required. It is requested that the Ministry of Justice not be satisfied with a press statement, but rather prosecute every case of institutional tolerance.
If the state does not act, then there is only one conclusion: notaries have become "notaries of the criminal state."/ Pamphlet
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