{"id":21118,"date":"2021-09-27T13:49:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T11:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=21118"},"modified":"2021-09-27T13:49:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T11:49:23","slug":"prosecution-seeks-3-year-sentence-for-former-chair-of-berat-cadaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/prosecution-seeks-3-year-sentence-for-former-chair-of-berat-cadaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecution seeks 3-year sentence for former chair of Berat Cadaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Prosecution Office has asked to sentence the former chair of the Berat Cadaster, Ervin Nelaj, to 3 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Nelaj was arrested back in February, over corruption charges related to the approval of construction permits in his city.<\/p>\n<p>After a 9-month investigation, SPAK came to the conclusion that there was reasonable doubt based on conclusive evidence, that Ervin Nelaj, in the position of Director of the Local Directory of the Cadaster in Berat, in collaboration with other employees in this government institution, have agreed on several occasions to receive unlawful financial compensations.<\/p>\n<p>These compensations were received with the aim of conducting actions related to their official duties, including the informal legalizations of building objects and registrations of property titles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/09\/17\/kim-meets-15-spak-prosecutors-prosecute-those-that-harm-albanians-and-use-crime-and-corruption-to-get-rich\/\">Kim to SPAK prosecutors: Punish those that harm Albanians and use crime to get rich!<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/09\/14\/none-of-the-ministers-of-rama-iii-cabinet-are-under-investigation-reports-spak\/\">None of Rama\u2019s III cabinet ministers under investigation, reports SPAK<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/09\/08\/spak-presses-to-reopen-trial-against-former-defense-minister-mediu\/\">SPAK presses on reopening former minister\u2019s trial on Gerdec explosion<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Prosecution Office has asked to sentence the former chair of the Berat Cadaster, Ervin Nelaj, to 3 years in prison. Nelaj was arrested back in February, over corruption charges related to the approval of construction permits in his city. After a 9-month investigation, SPAK came to the conclusion that there was reasonable doubt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":21119,"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>Prosecution seeks 3-year sentence for former chair of Berat Cadaster - 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\/prosecution-seeks-3-year-sentence-for-former-chair-of-berat-cadaster\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Prosecution seeks 3-year sentence for former chair of Berat Cadaster - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Special Prosecution Office has asked to sentence the former chair of the Berat Cadaster, Ervin Nelaj, to 3 years in prison. 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