DP denounces the director of the School of Magistrates: He used his position for private gain

The Democratic Party denounced the director of the Magistrates' School, Arben Rakipi, for flagrantly violating the law.

It was the DP spokesperson, Floriana Garo, who, in a statement to the media, said that Rakipi, although appointed as Director of the School of Magistrates, has exercised the private activity of a lawyer, as this constitutes a clear violation and placing him in conditions of conflict of interest. 

Also, according to the DP, Arben Rakipi is accused of nepotism after employing his wife and sister at the Magistrate's School.

Full statement:

Arben Rakipi, director of the School of Magistrates and former chief prosecutor, flagrantly and repeatedly violates the law without getting a thorn in his side. Here is the evidence initially denounced by the PLUG show on Syri TV:

The firm Rakipi & Partners, among other things, is a studio that defends the mayor and his wife. Not only that, but its partners are paid on the boards of NGOs that the mayor's wife heads.

In a conflict of interest and in violation of the law, Arben Rakipi founded the company Rakipi & Partners Law Office in June 2020.

Rakipi owns 55% of the shares and his family members divide the remaining share between his son and 2 partners.

As the documents show, Arben Rakipi, although appointed as Director of the School of Magistrates, has practiced private law.

3 days before the competition for the position in question opened, he founded another company, registered with the Central Bank of Kosovo in July 2020, the period when Arben Rakipi would apply to be elected as Director of the Magistrates' School.

According to the law on the School of Magistrates and its regulations, this constitutes a clear violation and placing them in conditions of conflict of interest.

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

After more than two months of his appointment, Arben Rakipi decides to donate the shares to his wife, Vilma Rakipi. But this is nothing more than a maneuver to avoid a conflict of interest.

He only changes the name of the shareholder, since according to the marital regime, he remains the beneficiary with 50% of any assets 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.

Law 115/2016 and the Regulation of the Institution, in Article 23, provide that along with the Director of the School of Magistrates, family members are also prohibited from engaging in profitable activities.

The violations continue, as if Arben Rakipi is a failed law student, and not the director of the school that should prepare the elite of Albanian jurisprudence.

The provisions of the company's STATUTE clearly state the manner in which the transfer of share quotas is made. 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 Shareholders' Assembly.

The documentation submitted to the Central Bank proves that the contract and decision were not notarized and the Central Bank should not have transferred the quotas since the CONTRACT IS NULL.

According to the definition in the STATUTE and the Law "On Commercial 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 elected for a second term as the Director of the Magistrates' School. This is the first part of Arben Rakipi's series of violations. He has turned the Magistrates' School into a family estate.

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

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

The conflict of interest in the Rakipi case breaks tribal records: the man has his wife subordinate twice, once in a private company and the other time as a teacher at the school he runs.

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

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

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

Their mentors lecture them on how to enforce the law in class and break it outside of class whenever they get the chance.

Here is the new justice system's clearest and most flagrant example of nepotism, corruption, and banality.