{"id":17260,"date":"2021-07-13T11:54:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T09:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=17260"},"modified":"2021-07-13T11:54:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T09:54:37","slug":"former-lushnje-mayor-appeals-for-a-more-lenient-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/former-lushnje-mayor-appeals-for-a-more-lenient-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Lushnje mayor appeals for a more lenient sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former mayor of Lushnje, Fatos Tushe, including ten other local officials charged with abuse of office, forgery, and abusing with public tenders, appealed for a more lenient sentence at the Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, the Special Court of First Instance for Corruption upheld SPAK\u2019s request to leave the former officials in prison over a corruptive 240 million Albanian Lek affair for the rehabilitation of a water irrigation channel.<\/p>\n<p>Tushe is appealing for a more lenient sentence claiming that there is no evidence connecting him with the case. Similarly, a similar pretense was made by his subordinates, who are also charged with forging documentation.<\/p>\n<p>On July 6, SPAK released an arrest warrant for Tushe and his 10 subordinates, of which seven remained behind bars, and the rest were sent to house arrest.<\/p>\n<p>After Tushe\u2019s arrest, Prime Minister Edi Rama not only <a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/06\/arrest-of-lushnjes-mayor-pm-rama-sp-doesnt-cover-for-anyone\/\">discharged him<\/a> from the post of mayor but also expelled him from the Socialist Party.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/07\/lushnja-mayor-officially-discharged-and-is-now-facing-corruption-charges\/\">Lushnja mayor officially discharged and is now facing corruption charges<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/06\/no-one-is-above-the-law-us-ambassador-reacts-to-arrest-of-lushnje-mayor\/\">\u2018No one is above the law\u2019 \u2013 US ambassador reacts to arrest of Lushnje mayor<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/08\/well-be-summoned-from-spak-wiretap-recording-that-took-lushnje-mayor-behind-bars\/\">\u201cWe\u2019ll be summoned from SPAK\u201d, the wiretap recording that took Lushnje Mayor behind bars<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former mayor of Lushnje, Fatos Tushe, including ten other local officials charged with abuse of office, forgery, and abusing with public tenders, appealed for a more lenient sentence at the Court of Appeal. A few days ago, the Special Court of First Instance for Corruption upheld SPAK\u2019s request to leave the former officials in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":17261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Former Lushnje mayor appeals for a more lenient sentence - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/former-lushnje-mayor-appeals-for-a-more-lenient-sentence\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former Lushnje mayor appeals for a more lenient sentence - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The former mayor of Lushnje, Fatos Tushe, including ten other local officials charged with abuse of office, forgery, and abusing with public tenders, appealed for a more lenient sentence at the Court of Appeal. 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