Lala tells details/ How Meta helped Ismailaj to sign the debt collection contract

2024-10-21 22:36:00, Aktualitet CNA

Lala tells details/ How Meta helped Ismailaj to sign the debt collection

Journalist Klodiana Lala

Journalist Klodiana Lala gave details this evening regarding the accusations raised by SPAK against the head of PL, Ilir Meta, for the ÇEZ-DIA case.

Lala said in a televised appearance that Meta helped businessman Kastriot Ismailaj sign contracts for the collection of CEZ debts.

She stated that in the months of April-August 2010, Meta and Ismailaj exchanged 115 phone calls or messages.

According to her, for interfering in the conclusion of contracts, the head of the PL has benefited the amount of 649 million ALL.

"One of the charges is related to CEZ-DIA, where there was also a convicted businessman, Kastriot Ismailaj. After several actions were carried out, Romeo Kara, turned to the prosecutor's office for serious crimes, the file was registered and then handed over to SPAK. SPAK raises doubts that the former president, at that time former minister of energy, knew businessman Kastriot Ismailaj and helped conclude contracts for debt collection. ÇEZ company signed a contract with DIA to collect arrears. According to SPAK, there are doubts that Meta, because of the connections he had with Kastriot Ismailaj, mediated the contacts between ÇEZ and Kastriot Ismailaj.

The testimony of Jozef Hajsek and the wiretapping conducted by former minister Dritan Prifti are used. They are based on the testimony of Vojsava Ismailaj, the wife of Kastriot Ismailaj. The testimony of citizen Elvis Mataj was taken. To prove the relationship with Ismailaj and Meta, in the months of April-August 2010, Meta and Ismailaj had 115 phone calls or messages. It is alleged that Meta took bribes from the businessman, therefore it is a criminal offense of corruption.

According to the prosecutors, the bribery was verified and there are doubts that because of Meta's attributes, because DIA did not meet the criteria, and it claims that since it intervened in the conclusion of the contracts, it benefited in the amount of 649 million ALL, so this is the amount of the company. Among others, messages between Meta and Ismailaj are mentioned, where the numbers of both are identified and about 200 thousand euros are mentioned. Mr. Meta claims that he is not related, he knows Ismailaj, but he had no role. Another claim, related to the trips and meetings in Vienna, are a series of collaborators who coincide the trips and accommodations between Meta and Ismailaj", emphasized the journalist./ CNA