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Veliaj case/ "Don't talk to anyone on the phone", VOA: Bushka took the witness's phone, gave her another one from Ajola Xoxa

Politiko 2025-02-24 18:52:26

Veliaj case/ "Don't talk to anyone on the phone", VOA: Bushka

In Albania, the chairwoman of the parliamentary Laws Committee, socialist Klotilda Bushka, appeared before the Special Prosecutor's Office today. She has been placed under investigation as a suspect for "actions that hinder the discovery of the truth" in the case against Tirana Mayor Erion Veliaj and his wife Ajola Xoxa. According to the Prosecutor's Office, the MP contacted one of the interrogated persons, Ina Goxhaj, instructing her on how to behave when called again by investigators. Ms. Bushka has rejected Goxhaj's statements before the prosecutors, stating that she contacted him, since they have a family relationship.

"Yes, I have met the girl in question, as a person I once worked with and with whom I have a blood relationship, she is my cousin. Ina Goxhaj is my cousin," she explained during a meeting of the Socialist Party parliamentary group, a few days after Mr. Veliaj's arrest.

The version offered by Mrs. Bushka was that "I calmed her down, advising her to tell the truth and, if she deems it necessary, to hire a lawyer. As a lawyer, I explained her rights to a relative. That's all. I did not prevent her from saying anything, nor did I try to hide any truth, because I am the first to be interested in the truth being revealed as soon as possible and being in the public eye," declared Mrs. Bushka.

But Ms. Goxhaj's story before the prosecutors turns out to be completely different. The meeting between the two turns out to have been initiated by Ms. Bushka, who went to the premises where she worked. "The declarant explains that Klotilda told her 'don't worry, for anything, you will have us. And please don't talk to anyone on the phone'. In order not to talk on the phone about the incident, the declarant explains that Ms. Bushka asked her several times," the Prosecution's documents read.

In her explanation before the parliamentary group, Ms. Bushka said that "I do not know how to explain what may have happened at the Prosecutor's Office or what pressure my cousin may have felt that she conveyed our private statements in another context."

But the most serious element, according to what is written in the file, is the fact that Ms. Bushka turns out to have given Goxhaj another phone offered by Mr. Veliaj's wife, while taking the phone that she had been using. For the moment, she avoided giving explanations in the statements made at the parliamentary group meeting, while prosecutors suspect that it was the deputy who destroyed the phone that she took from Goxhaj, at her parents' house.

The socialist MP, who spent almost 4 hours at the Special Prosecutor's Office, left without giving any statement or comment. VOA

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