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The arrest of the ATP official exposes the procrastination of the property restitution and compensation process

Politiko 2023-03-21 17:01:00

The arrest of the ATP official exposes the procrastination of the property

The Special Court against Corruption and Organized Crime imposed a security measure in prison for an official of the Property Handling Agency accused of corruption, while it imposed measures of house arrest and the obligation to appear against 9 heirs of the owners of lands nationalized during the dictatorship .

The measures were executed on Monday, April 20, while in a press release SPAK announced that the security measures were taken after investigations that began in 2021 and in which corruption was documented through special means in 14 cases.

SPAK says that the ATP inspector, IK, took money from the heirs of the owners of nationalized properties in the dictatorship, with the promise that he would enable compensation.

"In the analysis of the investigative actions carried out up to this moment, there is a reasonable suspicion based on evidence that the citizen IK, with the duty of Inspector of File Review at the Property Handling Agency, has taken from different citizens at least on fourteen occasions , heirs of the former owners, sums of money in exchange for the promise to provide financial compensation, during the treatment of their claims for the return and compensation of the property", says the announcement of SPAK.

This is not the first case that officials of the Property Handling Agency or previously the Property Restitution and Compensation Agency have been accused of corruption. A year ago, the Minister of Justice denounced after dismissing the director of the institution.

The case appears to be just a syndrome of the compensation process dragging on for years. In the last two years, based on the 2022 ATP report, only 6 compensation decisions were issued. Meanwhile, since 2015, a total of only 794 compensations have been granted out of over 26,000 files that are waiting to be compensated.

In previous articles, BIRN has found that many owners have no hope that they will be compensated even with the prices set by the government, several times lower than those requested by them. Reporter.al

 

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