Who is the businessman, the former owner of the school plot "Kosova" and the connection with Erion Veliaj

Miku i Erion Veliajt megjithëse u zhvesh nga pronësia mbi truallin e shkollës “Kosova”, u shpërblye mirë me leje ndërtimi nga kryebashkiaku.

2024-12-06 17:50:00, Politikë CNA

Who is the businessman, the former owner of the school plot "Kosova"

Photo montage - Erion Veliaj, in the background "Kosova" school

Everyone who lives in Tirana for at least 20 years remembers the serious incident of the burning of the "Kosova" school in front of the "Jordan Misja" Artistic High School.

After being left to degrade, the school with history in the City of Tirana, woke up one morning burnt.

The children had left a long time ago and were sheltered in other 9-year-old schools, so the "fire" realized that it could burn peacefully.

"Kosova" old school

The burning seems to have favored the former owners, who could not take the land property, as long as there was a building on it that served as a school.

After a dubious trial with a judge who resigned from "vetting", the property was sold for 2 million euros to a construction company, in which the judge's husband was also the owner.

The judge was dismissed from the KLD of the time for this reason, but regained the right to return to the system after convincing everyone that she had no way of knowing with which owners her husband would sign contracts.

"Kosova" old school

They believed him and put him back in office!

The burning of the "Kosova" school, the property restitution trial and the contract for the development of the property, would have been sufficient reason for the judge to have been excluded from the "vetting". But the judge escaped unceremonious dismissal and eventual re-opening of the investigation into a suspicious burning.

Edi Rama, at that time in the opposition, swore that he would rebuild the "Kosova" school even more beautiful than before when he was elected Prime Minister.

With Erion Veliaj the Mayor of Tirana, it took a long time for Rama's promise to become a reality.

Edi Rama and Erion Veliaj

The active builder of the company with strong ties to the resigned former judge, has the reputation of a character who does not respect contracts, who does not complete the works according to the projects and who is immersed in legal conflicts with the former owners of the plots where he built.

But no one stopped him from following the equipment with new construction permits.

Erion Veliaj served and still serves as the protector of this arrogant character.

Erion Veliaj's friend, although he was deprived of ownership of the "Kosova" school plot, was well rewarded with a building permit from the mayor.

Erion Veliaj

For the constructions of this builder, the projects of the alleys within the Great Ring were also changed, in order to increase the value of the construction.

What interest did Erion Veliaj have in taking under his wing a builder publicly attacked by Edi Rama?

This is Rama's statement on the day of the inauguration of the new school "Kosova"

"Good morning, and after a struggle of almost fifteen years, with those who unjustly took it as property, with those who burned it, treacherously as a building, with those who, through corrupt judges, wanted to turn its historic corner into a palace, I have the pleasure of I wish you all a happy and successful school year, with the reborn "Kosova", the symbolic school of Tirana's history that today opens its doors to children future, as the embodiment of our ambition for the Tirana we love, for the Albania we love"./ CNA