{"id":79817,"date":"2025-07-11T18:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T16:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=79817"},"modified":"2025-07-11T18:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T16:47:12","slug":"illegal-extensions-rama-warns-builders-you-will-end-up-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/illegal-extensions-rama-warns-builders-you-will-end-up-in-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Extensions: Rama Warns Builders \u2013 You Will End Up in Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Edi Rama issued a strong warning this Friday to construction companies that violate building permits by carrying out unauthorized additions within permitted structures.<\/p>\n<p>Rama emphasized that all builders committing such violations will pay a heavy price and end up in jail, urging them not to scapegoat site managers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t have a construction project and then make an illegal addition, and if you get caught, nothing happens \u2013 and then the state has to handle the demolition and cleanup. That\u2019s unacceptable and unfair. Whoever adds unauthorized structures to a permitted project must pay dearly \u2013 very dearly!<\/p>\n<p>And to those involved in construction, I say: Don\u2019t drag site administrators down with you! They will go to jail, just like others already have \u2013 for failing to comply with permits and for unauthorized construction within permitted areas,\u201d Rama stated.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding institutional actions, Rama pointed out that \u201cthe games begin with the Municipal Construction Inspectorate (IMT), sometimes with the National Inspectorate for Territorial Protection (IKMT) and municipal police,\u201d which often claim, \u201cthis person has an unauthorized extension, but the building itself is permitted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe games often start with IMT, and then IKMT and the municipal police say, \u2018This is just an unauthorized addition, but the building has a permit.\u2019 There is no such thing as \u2018permitted building with an unauthorized addition.\u2019 Albanian taxpayers\u2019 money cannot go toward cleaning up rubble and thousands of cubic meters of concrete from demolitions,\u201d Rama said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Edi Rama issued a strong warning this Friday to construction companies that violate building permits by carrying out unauthorized additions within permitted structures. Rama emphasized that all builders committing such violations will pay a heavy price and end up in jail, urging them not to scapegoat site managers. \u201cYou can\u2019t have a construction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":79818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,1803],"tags":[243,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Illegal Extensions: Rama Warns Builders \u2013 You Will End Up in Jail - 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\/illegal-extensions-rama-warns-builders-you-will-end-up-in-jail\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Illegal Extensions: Rama Warns Builders \u2013 You Will End Up in Jail - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prime Minister Edi Rama issued a strong warning this Friday to construction companies that violate building permits by carrying out unauthorized additions within permitted structures. 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