The Chairwoman of the Appeals Committee of the Democratic Party, Adriana Kalaja, has stated that she has filed two criminal reports with SPAK against Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku, one regarding the “Bankers” case and the other regarding a photovoltaic park.
Kalaja said that the complaint about the photovoltaic park, according to her, has been registered and that she is expected to give her explanations to the Special Prosecution Office. She announced that she was recently summoned by SPAK to be questioned regarding the complaint.
Speaking about the “Bankers” case, Kalaja stated that an in-depth investigation is underway and that the documents presented by her have raised suspicions of criminal offenses such as exercising illegal influence, passive corruption, obtaining illegal interests, laundering the proceeds of crime, as well as a structured criminal group.
According to her, responsibility is attributed to Belinda Balluku in collaboration with former Minister of Finance, Anila Denaj, as well as other officials for issues related to an obligation of approximately 123 million euros.
Kalaja claimed that the obligation towards the company “Bankers” was suspended and then forgiven by institutions that, according to her, did not have the legal competence to make this decision. Regarding the decision of the Supreme Court to leave in force the measure of suspension of Belinda Balluku from exercising her functions, Kalaja said that she welcomes the decision, but according to her, the measures should have been more severe.
She also raised allegations of delays in the investigations, saying that she has no information whether Prosecutor Prençi has requested an extension of the deadlines or has submitted the file within the legal deadline.
“I had referred two reports to SPAK, for Belinda Balluku, the first criminal report was related to the “Bankers” case, and the other report was related to a photovoltaic park, for which, to my knowledge, this has also been registered, but I am waiting to go and give the necessary explanations. So the prosecutor had judged that the registration of the criminal report and my summons had been made in record time.
Yesterday I was called to ask about the report.
An in-depth investigation is being conducted for “Bnakers” and one of the issues is the exercise of illegal influence, passive corruption, the benefit of illegal interests, the laundering of the proceeds of crime, but also a criminal organization or structured criminal group, which in the documents I have presented are addressed to Belinda Balluku, who in collaboration with the Minister of Finance at the time, Anila Denaj, but also for abuse of office not only these two, but also the current Minister of Finance, since the question we asked is whether it was done in a timely manner to be collected because it was done for 123 million euros of money in “Becchetti number 2”. Denaj and Balluku suspended it and then decided that the obligation should be forgiven, when they have no clue because only the General Directorate has it.
I welcome the decision of the Supreme Court, I would like the measures to be more severe because opposition leaders have been arrested without being informed of the charges. Prosecutor Prençi should submit the file within April or extend the deadline, we have no information that has been done. I suspect that he is being amnestied because there has been no action to lift immunity since March.
“There will be a reclassification of criminal offenses and you risk up to 35 years in prison. The law says that the file must be closed within 6 months, whatever decision you make,” said Kalaja.