The former mayor of Lushnja Fatos Tushe is released from prison, GJKKO's appeal accepted the request after the sentence given by the first instance ended

The Special Court of Appeal for Corruption and Organized Crime released the former mayor of Lushnja, Fatos Tushe, from prison yesterday. The appeal has accepted the request for freedom after the sentence given by the first instance has ended. Fatos Tushe was arrested on July 6, 2021, with his former subordinates, from an operation undertaken by SPAK, on ??the charge of abuse of office. It was about a tender worth about 24 million lek for the rehabilitation of an irrigation channel in the villages of Bishkethëm and Bitaj. This tender was won by the company EuroAlb shpk, which brought the highest offer, but then the works, profits and work were done by another company, owned by businessman Ibrahim Lami. The latter, from what is specified in the file, has close social ties with Tushe, as well as family ties with the businessman who was declared the winner of the tender, Bujar Muratin In the end, Lam and Murat shared the money together. Tushe has been caught in the act of abusing state fuel, supplying the cars of his acquaintances, among them the son of a member of parliament and a well-known journalist in Tirana, as well as interfering with a house that was being built without a permit. , so that the inspectors did not go for inspection. The former mayor of Lushnja was dismissed from office on July 7, 2021 by a decision of the Council of Ministers after the corruption affairs in which he was involved.