The Tirana Prosecutor’s Office has completed the investigation and sent to court a jurist of the State Cadastre Agency (ASHK), who is accused of abuse of office. According to the prosecution, the employee is suspected of having removed, without legal basis, a restrictive note from the card of a property in the Selita area of Tirana.
The case relates to a development contract concluded between the landowners and the company “Triumph Company” sh.p.k., for the development of an area of 3,250 square meters. The contract had been registered in the cadastral documentation, where a blocking note had also been placed to protect the company’s interests over the property.
According to the investigation, the deletion of this note was carried out by citizen A.B., a jurist at the Vlorë Regional Directorate of ASHK, to whom the case had been assigned through the electronic lottery. The decision to remove the restriction was based on the owners’ request, who claimed that the company had not carried out the development of the property, as well as on a notarial notice on the termination of the contractual relationship.
After the change in the cadastral register, the owners concluded a new development contract for the same property with the company “Al Development” sh.p.k.
From the Prosecutor’s Office verifications, it resulted that the first contract provided for a three-year deadline for completion of construction, which started from the moment of obtaining the construction permit and not from the date of its signing. For this reason, according to the prosecution, the claim of non-development of the property did not constitute sufficient grounds for automatic termination of the contract.
The Prosecutor’s Office assesses that the jurist accepted the owners’ request and the notarial notice as a basis for deleting the note, without having the necessary legal documentation for this action. As a result, it is suspected that the legitimate interest of “Triumph Company” was harmed and the possibility was created for the same property to pass into a new contractual relationship with another company.
For these actions, A.B. will face court for the criminal offense of “Abuse of Office”, provided for by Article 248 of the Criminal Code.