The Director of the State Cadastre Agency (ASHK), Lorena Goxhobelli, seems to have turned this institution into a hotbed of illegality, greed and corruption, where bribery, shady deals and a complete lack of transparency reign every day. Citizens from all over Albania, from North to South, from East to West, have relentlessly denounced the Director of the Cadastre and her subordinates for property alienation, artificial overlapping, disappearance of historical documents and deliberate delays of months and years just to squeeze the next tip.
Exclusive sources for the newspaper indicate that a voluminous file, filled with damaging evidence and financial scandals, is already on the desk of the prosecutors of the Special Prosecution Office (SPAK). According to these sources, the investigations have entered the final phase and an arrest warrant for Ms. Goxhobelli is expected to be issued in the coming days, thus marking the start of the countdown for the head of the ASHK.
Complicity with crime and the shadows of Ergys Agas
But the accusations against Lorena Goxhobelli are not limited to mismanagement and daily administrative corruption. Powerful voices from the opposition and public denunciations directly link her name to structured networks of influence. Goxhobelli is suspected and accused of having served as part of the narrow circle and the spillover of interests of the so-called “Ergys Agas gang”, turning the Cadastre institution into a tool for implementing the orders of criminal entities and favoring oligarchs on the coast and strategic areas. Through the blocking of the properties of ordinary citizens and the “disappearance” of basic files from the archives, the Cadastre under her leadership is suspected and accused of having facilitated the legalization and registration of staggering areas for the benefit of interest groups connected to power.
A mountain of complaints from citizens and complaints from the opposition
But complaints against the ASHK have reached a critical point. The opposition and aggrieved citizens list a series of flagrant violations:
l Alienation of property and intentional overlays: Creating fixed overlays in the digital system to demand large sums of money from the rightful owners in exchange for “upgrading” the card.
l The bunker of hiding files: The disappearance of original certificates and old maps from physical registers to make it impossible to return properties to their owners.
l Obstruction of digital services: Using the e-Albania portal as an alibi to reject citizens’ applications dozens of times without any legal reason, forcing them to seek out realtors.
l Administrative favors: Quick payment of certificates to government-connected builders, while thousands of Albanian families remain without ownership titles for decades.
However, the tightening of the investigative loop by special prosecutors seems to soon bring the Cadastre chain of command to justice, where Lorena Goxhobelli remains the central figure of this institutional chaos.