Facts and documents/ Veliaj earns hundreds of millions, fills his pockets with perks and bonuses

2025-01-26 12:17:00, Politikë CNA

Facts and documents/ Veliaj earns hundreds of millions, fills his pockets with

Tirana Mayor Erion Veliaj, who is under investigation by SPAK for four criminal charges, beyond his duties as mayor, is also a beneficiary of citizens' taxes. The head of the directors of the criminal organization "5D", receives not only his salary as mayor for the position he holds, but also tens or hundreds of millions of lek in total for his income that comes not only from his salary, but also from bonuses and other benefits.

According to official data that CNA has provided, which we have extracted from Mayor Erion Veliaj's statements to the ILDKPI, it turns out that in the last five years alone, Erion Veliaj has secured over 110 million lek in income, of which about 70 million are from 2020 to 2023 and another amount that is approximately from 2024 salaries, about 25 million old lek.

From the bonuses in the same year, an amount approximately equal to that of 2023, about 17 million lekë, which increases the income in just one year by about 40 million lekë for the mayor of Tirana and in five years he will be the beneficiary of over 110 million lekë, these only from salaries and bonuses. Below we are bringing them in detail.

We are not reporting other monetary benefits, but only what Erion Veliaj has declared as income to the ILDKPI from salaries, bonuses, etc. We are not listing the hundreds of millions of lek other expenses for plane tickets, hotels, etc., which are paid for by the Municipality of Tirana.

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According to official data, net salary income until 2020 is approximately for that year exclusively around 15 million old lekë, exactly 1,458,700.10 new lekë.

Facts and documents/ Veliaj earns hundreds of millions, fills his pockets with

But what stands out in Erion Veliaj's asset declarations is that from 2021 onwards, in addition to salary income, Erion declares large amounts of income from bonuses. They start and continue year after year.

In 2021, he declares 7.5 million in income from bonuses and another 15 million in salary.

Facts and documents/ Veliaj earns hundreds of millions, fills his pockets with

In 2022, he states that income from bonuses is approximately 17 million lekë. It is more than income from salary, which is somewhere around 16 million lekë.

Facts and documents/ Veliaj earns hundreds of millions, fills his pockets with

In 2023, Erion Veliaj also adds income from participation in boards and income from bonuses that again amount to around 17 million lekë and income from salary in 2023 amounts to around 24 million old lekë. In 2023 alone, Veliaj has an official income of 41 million lekë.

Facts and documents/ Veliaj earns hundreds of millions, fills his pockets with

In total, Erion Veliaj's bonuses for the years 2021, 2022, and 2023 are around 33 million lek. So, in just three years, our data does not include the 2024 declaration, which is approximately the same as that for 2023.

From salaries, Erion Veliaj declares that in 2021 he received about 15 million, in 2022 about 16 million, and in 2023, with the salary increases made by the government and with the approvals made by the Municipal Council, Erion Veliaj's salary income is about 24 million lek per year. Meanwhile, that is also the income for 2024.

So, the salary income as mayor in 2024 is the same as the salary level in 2023 and if we add them up in total, Erion Veliaj has received around 33 million in bonuses in three years and the total salary income for about four years, Erion Veliaj is around 70 million.

In total, according to data from 2020 to 2023, Erion Veliaj has benefited from over 100 million lek from citizens' taxes. This does not include the 2024 declaration, which minimally adds about another 40 million lek to Mayor Erion Veliaj's account.

Erion Veliaj, hundreds of millions of lek from bonuses and salaries

For five years, the citizens of Tirana have been keeping the head of the "5D" organization in office and paying him, not only for his thieving directors, but also for the hundreds of millions of lek he receives as salary, and what is most strange is the tens of millions of lek that will begin to come in as income from bonuses after 2021.

At the head of the "5D" file organization in the Municipality of Tirana, Erion Veliaj, as mayor, is paid hundreds of millions from citizens' taxes as a leader and long-term collaborator with the thieves he promoted to director after director. /CNA