TIRANA, June 18 – The Director of The State Cadastre Agency (ASHK), Artan Lame has revealed that the largest part of the registrars of the cadastre of Tirana district had been damaged by tearing, removal of sheets, change of pages and other actions of alienation of property.
“Out of 2342 registers, only about 250 of them result without damage. About 2100 registers are damaged by tearing, sheet removal, page changes, etc. Thus, 515 pages are completely missing, torn and have not been replaced at all; there are several hundred suspected pages replaced, i.e. the real page has been removed and replaced with another; there are 914 duplicate pages which means the same property exists 2 times. They did this to work in two lines for the same fortune; 180 torn pages, so the page is torn, but the sewing part remains; 13,000 blank pages, pages that were left blank from time to time, in order to be used with previous dates, or that they were ‘lazy’ to register state property,” Lame said in a lengthy statement on the desperate situation of the State Cadastre.
The State Cadastre Agency (ASHK) is a governmental agency created to address the issues of legalization, restitution and registration of housing and all immovable properties throughout the territory of Albania. The agency was formed by law No.111/2018 of the Albanian Parliament that resulted in the merger of ALUIZNI, the National Housing Authority and the Immovable Property Registration Office. Artan Lame is the current director.
Drawing a parallel with the situation identified in Durrës, Lame said that the problems are more or less the same as in that seaport city, but the number of damages is four times lower in Tirana than in Durres.
According to him, the most damaged registers are those related to assets in the developing areas of the capital, such as: Farka, Kashari, Yzberish, Mëzezi, Baldushku, Sharra. Ndroqi, Peza-Helmesi, Peza, etc.
As for the Kamza-Vora area, Lame singled out the areas of Kamza, Vora, Paskuqan, Valias, Bathore, Laknas, Babrru, Domje, etc.
Lame added that it is difficult to find the culprits of this whole situation because, according to him, there has never been a clear regulation and responsibility for who administered the registers. This means that anyone could take anything from them, could remove and add documents. “Even when the archive was passed from one employee to another, this was done without inventory and any control,” he said.
The Socialist Party has been in power since 2014 and the first thing the Socialist PM, Edi Rama promised to resolve was the question of the verification of the documents of the real estate and restitute property to the real owners. It is weird that the top official in charge of Albanian Cadastre is a socialist figure very close to the government head, Rama and the question remains unanswered how come that such a ‘discovery’ is made when SP is in its third mandate of governing Albania. /Argumentum.al
