[ad_1]
Former mayor of Lushnja, Fatos Tushe, appeared in court today, about a year after his arrest.
Journalist Anila Hoxha told Top Channel that Tushe denied all the accusations of SPAK, saying that he did not violate the tenders and that it was his duty to take care of the residents of the area and in this way he demanded innocence. The SPAK has requested a sentence of five years in prison for the former mayor, but the latter has requested a reduction of the sentence.
On the other hand, the lawyer Tushes has informed the connection of the former mayor with the citizen Ibrahim Lami, with whom according to him he had contacts from the late former deputy Bashkim Fino.
Ibarhim Lami is suspected to be a businessman, whose company won the tender from the Municipality of Lushnja, but Tusha’s lawyer has indicated that such a thing is not true.
He said that Tushe and Lami met in order for the latter to forward to Bashkik Finos the delays that would be made in the rehabilitation of the irrigation canal. This meeting between them took place as Tushe had no contact with Finon and the former MP was in serious condition at the time.
According to Tushe’s lawyer, his client had no competence or function regarding the procurement procedure to sign such acts and according to him the assessments on him are not objective and the accusations are not defended with concrete facts.
Full speech of Fatos Tushe’s lawyer:
First: Regarding this fact, we want to clarify to you, honorable court, that in the explanations that our client has given during the preliminary investigation phase, he has quoted, among other things, that he has known the citizen Ibrahim Lami for more than 10 years because the deputy of the area, the late Bashkim Fino had his man and often came to Lushnja due to political engagements and in these conditions they have established friendships after engaging in electoral campaigns and participating in the meetings of the electoral staff that took place in the city of Lushnja. .
Even the above-mentioned transcript that was made to him by the prosecution body for this fact has no other meaning than the holding of the next meeting that they had to do in the city of Lushnja in function of political developments…
Regarding the allegations of the prosecution body where are quoted some other transcripts of the date between the citizen Fatos Tushe and the citizen Ibrahim Lami where among other things it is said about a complaint made by a company which has participated in a tender which has bere ankim!
Despite the claim of the prosecution body, this conversation took place in another context where the defendant from me because he had no telephone communication with the deputy of the area Bashkim Fino due to his health condition, told the citizen Ibrahim Lami because he meets physically with the deceased and to convey to him this fact about the delays that were taking place in this rehabilitation of the water canal…
As it was the deputy of the area Mr. Fino who was interested in the speedy completion of this rehabilitation because there was a lot of dissatisfaction from the residents of the area and this was the interest for a speedy completion of this project and all conversations are in the context of resolving the situation as soon as possible and the dissatisfaction of the residents…
The defendant from us had been in this position as Mayor for more than 12 years and at no time did he have an impact on the procedures of public tenders or auctions as in previous years there was a tendering procedure and no violation was found by the prosecution. which has seized a series of documentation related to these procedures and not even from the Supreme State Audit who conducted audits regarding the funds of the Municipality of Lushnja and no violations or misuse of these funds have been found!
The prosecution body expresses itself in the final discussion regarding the criminal proceeding with no. 199 date 22.07.2020.
That in this procurement procedure conducted by the NPP near the Municipality of Lushnja, in 2020, legal violations have been identified, committed by the citizen Fatos Tushe, etc. But we have not seen a legal reasoning of what constitutes the legal violation of my client in this case !!!
As the protected by me has no competencies or functions related to procurement procedures, to delegate or sign acts in function of this procurement procedure, referring to Law 8652, dated 31.7.2000 ON THE ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONING OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT (Amended by law no. 9208, dated 18.3.2004) which defines the functions performed by the Mayor! and for these reasons we think that the prosecution body has not made an objective assessment regarding the legal responsibility of our defendant… but attributes this fact only that he had the duty of Mayor and according to the allegations of the prosecution body has no influence proven by this fact with concrete evidence! ! !
Even in the final discussions, the Prosecution always stated that due to his position, Fatos Tushe influenced the decisions of the NPP, the Public Assets Enterprise or KVO, the Bid Evaluation Commission or the KSHA, the Complaints Review Commission !!! The prosecution body should speak with facts and evidence and not with assumptions!
As during the investigation and today in the trial, at no point is it quoted by the prosecution body who has stated that the mayor has influenced or given orientations according to his preferences ?!
top channel
[ad_2]
Source link
