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Erion Veliaj and Mero Baze continue to refuse to release the document signed by Ols Dado and the refusal signed by the mayor regarding the claims and accusations that the prosecutor is investigating Veliaj for "revenge" after he did not approve the addition to the construction permit.

For 23 days now, we have been waiting for Veliaj and Mero Baze to publish the document signed by Ols Dado when he requested the permit extension and the refusal signed by the mayor, who claims that Ols Dado is "revengeful" and has a conflict of interest.

As we have previously reported (The request does not exist, nor does the refusal, just like the Tirana incinerator).

For this reason, we are bringing you the positions of Veliaj and Mero Baze.

Erion Veliaj's claim

In point 135, Veliaj says that prosecutor Ols Dado obtained a building permit from the Municipality of Tirana and then requested an addition to the permit and this was refused.

While in point 136 of the document without a seal and signature, Erion treats this as a matter of "revenge" on the part of prosecutor Ols Dado, because, according to him, he was not granted a construction permit for the addition after he made a request.

Mero Baze's claim

Mero Baze says that, according to him, the investigation against Veliaj is being insistently requested by a prosecutor, who months ago had a personal conflict with him, regarding his requests for a construction permit outside the legal criteria that the municipality had.

" So, it is clear that we are dealing with an investigation urgently requested by a prosecutor, who months ago had a personal conflict with him, regarding his requests for a construction permit outside the legal criteria that the municipality had, which was not granted," says Mero Baze, who serves as a tool of Mayor Erion Veliaj.

 

If so, why doesn't Mero Baze confirm it? Where is the document with Ols Dado's signature and the refusal with Erion Veliaj's signature? Why doesn't he produce it?/ CNA

"Turkish Airlines", one of the largest and most prestigious airlines in the world, is facing several consecutive scandals related to "Air Albania", its "daughter" in Albania.

Why do we say scandals?

We say scandals, because we as CNA, after simply following the steps that some media were taking against "Air Albania", understood who was behind the attacks and whether what was being reported on some peripheral portals was true or pseudo-scandals. Was the company harming itself? Did its shareholders simply bankrupt it? There were no more funds or what had happened? These were written as attacks or actions to cover up real scandals.

What did we do?

After the news about the company's huge debts and the leakage of balance sheets, we asked the Central Bank, but the balance sheets were not there and we sent an e-mail to "Turkish Airlines", but the company remained silent. The auditors, too. And we received no response from there. Two e-mails, no response regarding the leakage of "Air Albania" balance sheets, when they did not exist in the Central Bank. The silence from the companies was deafening, but the reaction came.

We, not without reason, also sent an email to the "Big Four Ernst & Young (EY)" regarding the company's balance sheets and their audit. We sent an email there as well, but again silence.

Email sent by CNA

We issued a court decision, which showed and revealed an abuse, perhaps a major theft of millions of euros, related to catering, where according to the data, 120 people a day traveled in "business class" with "Air Albania". An entire plan a day "business class". Unbelievable! They were silent again.

After an article in CNA, other articles were published against "Air Albania". It was said that it had not paid the aircraft leases. A "revelation" coming from Switzerland.

We wrote to the company where "Air Albania" had leased planes, but they told us by e-mail "NO COMMENT".

Each e-mail had questions directed at what was written to understand the truth, but everyone was silent, we only received one comment.

Is silence approval?! So, approval of the truth that arose from our questions and not from the articles that seemed to be shooting "Air Albania" in pairs to make noise and hide the truth.

"Turkish Airlines" is silent, the scandals will not stop

"Turkish Airlines" is one of the world's major companies that has many "daughters", somewhere in partnership with Germany, somewhere in partnership with the Albanian state, but unlike the others, "Air Albania" is being hit and hit. It was abused, misused by managers, executives, former executives, who are under the shelter of "Turkish Airlines". So, it was "Turkish Airlines" itself that managed the company in Albania since its founding and the balance sheets kept getting heavier. The balance sheets of a company that had been promised that it would have 7 aircraft, but could not even complete two, were getting heavier.

Someone at Turkish Airlines has other intentions and the silence speaks for itself.

Maybe for them, "Air Albania" and its losses or bankruptcy are nothing, but those planes carry the Albanian flag on their tails. Those planes, as we have written and repeated, carry the name "Air Albania" on their bodies.

Someone doesn't like the beautiful tail with the Albanian flag.

Maybe they want to bankrupt it, maybe they want to buy it, but one thing is true: for years and years, we have discovered that theft and abuse have taken place at "Air Albania", which came to light through a court decision. Maybe there are others.

"Air Albania", a cash cow

Leaders who may have taken advantage and abused even when they were not in office. They saw "Air Albania" as a cow to be milked. And after they have milked it well and truly, they want to kill it, slaughter it for meat, to eat it on the table.

That seems to be the goal. Nothing more than that.

But will certain individuals, about whom "Turkish Airlines" is silent, be able to achieve this goal?

"Air Albania" is the Albanian flag in the sky

Maybe we don't care as media, but we won't stop until the day we get answers about the truth. We don't care about the funds of "Turkish Airlines" at all. Not at all. Not even who the Albanian shareholders are. We care about what we have emphasized: the Albanian flag in the skies of Europe, why not even further. Because we were told that there would be 7 planes, with which Albanians would fly around Europe, to London, Frankfurt, Paris, Rome, Milan.

They now fly only to the latter and to Istanbul. Nowhere else. Why do "low cost" companies have to use Albanian skies and our airports, when we have and should have our own airlines? Why don't "Turkish Airlines" or individuals within it want "Air Albania" to exist? Why do they want to destroy it, after they stole it and took it for granted? Is it possible that "Turkish Airlines" is keeping quiet because it knows that there is theft there? Or is it that someone is lying, manipulating and hiding the right information, selling false or half-truthful news to the media in Albania and billing the Albanian company, when in fact the responsibility lies in Turkey with "Turkish Airlines"? What is being hidden?

From the silence of "Turkish Airlines", we can say that it is perhaps an approving silence for what we have written./CNA

State Election Commissioner Ilirjan Celibashi commented today regarding the Task Force established together with SPAK and the General Prosecutor's Office for the May 11 parliamentary elections.

In his speech at a press conference, Celibashi said that it was a successful collaboration with a very positive impact.

Celibshi emphasized that the result of the involvement of these actors during the process was the establishment of a standard for electoral crimes.

"This electoral process and the standards were the product. I think that beyond the criticism and sarcasm of any political representative used for this cooperation, I am convinced that it was a successful cooperation. Political parties have their assessments and interests in the grades and assessments for the CEC, SPAK, the body of the General Prosecutor's Office. I think the impact has been positive. I am convinced that it has had a positive impact beyond the comments that someone else has about this cooperation or the role of these actors involved in this process. But there is a need to re-dimension and establish this cooperation on clearer regulatory bases", - said Celibashi. /CNA

Prime Minister Edi Rama was present at the presentation of the package of legal measures for the protection of property and territory.

During his speech, Rama said that this package is not perfect, but it will allow the government to have new instruments at its disposal to protect the territory.

The Prime Minister stated that the offensive to free up public spaces could possibly last throughout the entire mandate.

Rama further stated that since the start of construction by free enterprise, architectural projects have been deformed by the intervention of builders.

" Just as nothing is perfect, neither is this package, but it is a set of measures that will give us the opportunity to have new instruments in hand to protect the territory, starting from the final success of an offensive that will probably last throughout the entire new mandate for the irrevocable prohibition of any inspiration to build without permission, to the protection of the authorship of architectural projects that during all this time, since construction began in Albania from free enterprise, have been deformed and violated in their form by the intervention of builders.

This turns the filters that are put in place to guarantee that the project meets the standards into formalities and another significant consequence, the deception that is done to buyers by selling them the object that has received permission with specific views, while in the end the view is like a distant cousin who has just been shaved by a barber and with a deformed body , "said Rama./ CNA

The Special Court has communicated the security measure to Soni Pepa, extradited a few days ago from the Dominican Republic.

The Criminal Court has assigned Pepa the security measure "Arrest in prison". To be continued...