Legal violations at the School of Magistrates/Garo: Arben Rakipi has turned it into a family manor

2025-01-10 17:30:00, Politikë CNA

Legal violations at the School of Magistrates/Garo: Arben Rakipi has turned it

The spokesperson of the Democratic Party, Floriana Garo

In a statement to the media from Selia Blue, given today, the Spokesperson of the Democratic Party, Floriana Garo, denounced the Director of the School of Magistracy, Arben Rakipi.

Bringing back the investigation of the "Plug" show, Garo denounced the connections between Arben Rakip and Erion VeliajT, where the studio owned 55% by Rakip's son protects the mayor and his wife Ajola Xoxa in a pure conflict of interest.

"The Rakipi & Partners firm, among other things, is the studio that protects the mayor and his wife. Not only that, but her partners are paid on the boards of the NGOs that the mayor's wife leads.

In conflict of interest and in violation of the law, Arben Rakipi in June 2020 founded the company Zyra Ligjore Rakipi & Partners.

Rakipi owns 55% of the shares and his family members the part that remains divided between his son and 2 partners.

As it results from the documents, Arben Rakipi, although commanded as the Director of the School of Magistrates, has exercised the private activity of a lawyer"

3 days before the competition for the position in question opened, he founded another company, registered at the CKB in July 2020, the period when Arben Rakipi would apply to be elected as the Head of the School of Magistrates.

According to the Law on the School of Magistracy and its regulation, this constitutes an open violation and placement in conditions of conflict of interest.

Rakipi continued undisturbed even after being elected as Director of the School of Magistrates for a 4-year term. He even adds legal violations.

After more than two months from the appointment, Arben Rakipi decides to donate the shares to his wife, Vilma Rakipi. But this is no more than a maneuver to avoid a conflict of interest.

He only changes the name of the shareholder, since according to the matrimonial regime, he remains the beneficiary with 50% of any property created during the marriage.

Even according to this contract, Vilma Rakipi would not be able to alienate the shares without the prior approval of Arben Rakipi" , said Garo.

The spokesperson of the Democratic Party, Florjana Garo, accused Rakip of nepotism and violation of the law with family employment in this institution.

"Law 115/2016 and the Regulation of the Institution, in Article 23, provides that together with the Head of the School of Magistrates, family members are prohibited from having profitable activities.

The violations continue, are you saying that Arben Rakipi is a remaining student of Law, and not the director of the school that should prepare the elite of Albanian Jurisprudence.

The definitions in the STATUTE of the company clearly emphasize the way in which the share quotas are transferred. According to Article 11 of the statute, signed by Arben Rakipi, it is determined that the contract for the transfer of quotas to the wife had to be notarized together with the decision of the Assembly of Partners.

The documentation submitted to the KKB, proves that the contract and the decision have not been notarized and the KKB should not transfer the quotas since the CONTRACT IS NULL.

According to the definition in the STATUTE and the Law "On Trading Companies", Arben Rakipi is a de facto and de jure shareholder of the Company and the contract has no legal value.

These are serious legal violations committed by Arben Rakipi, who has already been selected for a second term as Director of the School of Magistrates. This is the first part of the series of violations of Arben Rakip. He has turned the Magistrate's school into a family manor.

According to the verifications, Arben Rakipi employed his wife and sister at the Magistrate's School.

Rakip's wife is employed at the School of Magistracy as an expert professor in the training of students in the subjects of economic-financial crime, PPP, Tenders, Taxes, Customs, etc.

The conflict of interest in the Rakipi case breaks tribal records: the man subordinates the woman twice, once in the private company and the other time as a teacher of the school he himself directs.

Mrs. Rakipi, in the style of her husband, and to hide the conflict of interest, is employed at the Magistrate's School under the name of Vilma Sharofi, that is, with her maiden name.

While his sister, Vera Rakipi, is the department head at the School of Magistrates.

These are the standards of new justice, right at the heart of the system where future lawyers grow.

Their mentors, in class, lecture them on how to apply the law and outside of it they break it whenever they get the chance," said Floriana Garo /CNA