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Property scandal in Lushnje, land turns into 12-story building with forged documents
2026-04-09 20:37:24 / AKTUALITET
On January 20, 2026, Sefedin Shefa from Lushnja would be summoned for questioning by the Vlora Prosecutor's Office through judicial police officer Altin Muçaj. He would be questioned in his capacity as a whistleblower for a group of magistrates who work at the Fier Court and Prosecutor's Office. Shefa would be questioned, but his report would gather dust in the archives of the Vlora Prosecutor's Office if he had not complained to the Ombudsman.
The testimony from Sefedin Shefa and the responses from the General Prosecutor's Office and the Fier Prosecutor's Office expose a diversion of the report by the Vlora Prosecutor's Office, which should not have sent it to the Fier Prosecutor's Office as there is a conflict of interest. This case has at least an apparent conflict of interest because the Fier Prosecutor's Office itself cannot investigate the prosecutors and judges of Fier.
The story of Sefedin Shefa is a conflict that began with the issue of returning property to its rightful owner. Along the way, this conflict has been expanded by Ferit Tabaku, who was found to have forged documents, but escaped criminal punishment due to the statute of limitations, while Shefa has raised allegations of corruption against magistrates and confusion over competencies between the Fier and Vlora Prosecutor's Offices.
The whole story begins in the distant year 1958, from a property document of Sefedin Shefa's father, which was passed on to his son. Shefa is the heir to a 392 square meter plot of land in the center of Lushnja, which his father, Sabri Shefa, had purchased in October 1958.
Just one month after the purchase, in November 1958, the property was expropriated by the communist regime for the construction of a winter cinema. In 1991, Sefedini would start a legal battle to reclaim this property, and in 2006 he would receive a decision from the Property Restitution Commission recognizing his ownership of this area.
But here the situation would be complicated after Ferit Tabaku, who had privatized the former winter cinema. The indications of forgery were obvious since Tabaku's contract had a master plan with manual corrections where the area of the land had been increased to 686 square meters. Although in 1993 the Lushnja Court had declared Tabaku's contract invalid, the latter had registered the property in mortgage in 2006, using another court decision from 2005 that forced the Property Restitution Agency to recognize him as the owner.
With the fall of communism, Shefa would reclaim his property, where the cinema had been, but without being able to take it because the documents would be falsified by local officials with Ferit Tabaku.
The latter would take the cinema and then, on that land that was not his, he would build a 12-story building in the middle of Lushnja. It would be this building that challenges all the institutions of justice because even today it is used by the person who was declared guilty.
On February 12, 2026, the State Cadastre Agency would inform Sefedin Shefa that assets such as apartments and shops were restricted according to the 2020 decision of the Lushnja Court. The problem is that prosecutor Merita Selimi never seized the keys from Ferit Tabaku, who uses the property that should have been transferred to the state for use.
"The Fier Prosecutor's Office is not Merita Selimi's private property! Prosecutor Merita Selimi is fanatically defending the thief because they collaborate around the clock and are renting out entrances. In this case, the suspicion arises that they are sharing the money together because there is no reason, since the law states that if a property, building or whatever it is is seized, the prosecutor's office takes the keys and locks it!", says the Chief indignantly.
Sefedin Shefa says he has filed a complaint about this with the High Inspectorate of Justice, but things would get complicated.
"The High Inspectorate of Justice, taking into account all the requests I made, kept the complaints in the drawer for those four years and replied 'there is no violation'. How did you get it, brother, there is no violation by this prosecutor?" said Sefedin Shefa, appealing to the ILD.
For 4 years, the complaint would remain in the office of the High Inspectorate of Justice and after 4 years, the Inspectorate would issue a decision that there was no violation.
At the same time, the 12-story building has been and continues to be used by the person with forged papers, who is supposedly in sequestration, defying all justice institutions.
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