Arben Kraja
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Legal status
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What this means: No criminal charge against this person is recorded in the sources reviewed.
Profile
Head of SPAK in April 2021. Exit reported that he said prosecutors were doing verifications and that no complaints had been filed yet. A later SPAK communication (May 2021, as quoted by Shqiptarja) said the patronage lists did not contain elements of active or passive electoral corruption and that the data-theft aspect would pass to the Tirana Prosecution.
Response from Arben Kraja
Statement as quoted by Exit (April 2021). No later response found.
Related cases
Sorted by reported money, then by linked people and their legal status. The money figure is the largest single reported figure, not a total.
From 11 Apr 2021
Patronazhistet scandal: the Socialist Party's patronage network and the April 2021 voter database
On 11 April 2021, two weeks before the 25 April 2021 parliamentary election, the Albanian online portal Lapsi.al published a database that it said was held by the Socialist Party (PS). Reports…
Status: Allegation disputed. No charges, no final court decision and no Commissioner decision on the database found. The seizure of Lapsi.al equipment was halted…
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What they said vs. what the documents show
What was said · Apr 2021
The head of SPAK said prosecutors were doing verifications and that there were no complaints yet (as reported by Exit).
Speaker: Arben Kraja
Exit Explains (same article) (opens in a new tab)Exit News · 16 Apr 2021 · journalism · EN
What the documents show
SPAK's visible action was against Lapsi.al, not the PS. A May 2021 SPAK communication (as quoted by Shqiptarja) said the patronage lists contained no active or passive electoral corruption elements and referred data theft to the Tirana Prosecution. No public outcome of that referral was found.
- Shqiptarja: GUXO complaint and SPAK communication (opens in a new tab)Shqiptarja · 2021 · journalism · SQ
Timeline
SPAK
Exit explainer; SPAK summons Lapsi.al owners; Commissioner says it is assessing
Exit publishes its explainer (16 April). It reports that SPAK summoned Andi Bushati and Armand Shkullaku, that the Commissioner was assessing the matter without an investigation, and that the head of SPAK said there were no complaints yet and verifications were under way.
Linked: Patronazhistet scandal: the Socialist Party's patronage network and the April 2021 voter database · Arben Kraja · Redi Skenderi · Andi Bushati · Armand Shkullaku
SPAK
SPAK: no electoral-corruption elements in the patronage lists; data theft referred to Tirana
In a May 2021 communication, a month after the election, SPAK said the PS patronage lists concerning Tirana residents' personal data did not contain active or passive electoral corruption elements; these offences are SPAK's competence, and the data-theft offence would pass to the Tirana Prosecution (as quoted by Shqiptarja).
Linked: Patronazhistet scandal: the Socialist Party's patronage network and the April 2021 voter database · Arben Kraja
Sources for this record
Every source the research cites for this record, grouped by its source label. 2 sources.
Source label: Officially reportedOfficially reported · 2 sources
- Publisher
- Exit News
- Date
- 16 Apr 2021
- Publisher
- Shqiptarja
- Date
- 2021