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The former official of the Municipality of Tirana, who deceived businessmen by promising grants from the government, is released from prison

Politiko 2023-03-22 08:29:53

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The Court of Korça, with the approval of the prosecution, eased the security measures against Viola Sterjos, the former official of the Municipality of Tirana and earlier of the National Information Service Agency, accused of "fraud" in large amounts, on March 8.

Sterjo was arrested in December of last year, after a report by a businessman who claims that she received 57 thousand euros in 2020 with the promise that she would help him benefit from a grant of 3.5 million euros from the Agency for Agricultural and Rural Development. AZHBR.

After her arrest, the security measure of prison was assigned to her, while two months later the defense asked the court to replace the measure of arrest with house arrest.

The argument of the defense, according to the discredited decision of the Korca court to soften the security measure, was the condition of the two children of the arrested woman and her husband. "Living without the mother has brought psycho-emotional shock by losing self-confidence and affects the way of living", the court decision quotes the act of psycho-social expertise of children.

The claims of the defense were found to be grounded by the prosecution, which accepted the mitigation of the measure, adding that Sterjo could not influence the disruption of the investigations and that she had given detailed evidence on the case.

After that, the judge of the case, Eglantina Mikani, reasoned that "the restriction of freedom in this case, but in the conditions of the house, is justified, bearing in mind here the social dangerousness of the criminal offense expressed in the margin of punishment, the circumstances of its commission, but also the attitude of the citizen herself under investigation as well as of the prosecuting body".

The judge says that she also took into account the position of the prosecutor, who stated at the hearing that she was not aware of the family circumstances, but that she herself would have submitted a request for substitution of measures.

The easing of security measures against officials accused of similar criminal offenses is something routine in Albanian courts and the arguments in most cases are health conditions. In October of last year, former socialist deputy Alqi Blako, accused of corruption in the so-called incinerators affair, was temporarily released by the Special Court with the claim that he had minor children. But the easing of the security measure against Bllakos was appealed and he was returned to the cell after the Appeal decision./BIRN

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