"I will not testify against my daughter"/ How Veliaj manipulated witnesses

2025-04-06 17:00:00, Denoncim CNA

"I will not testify against my daughter"/ How Veliaj manipulated

The wiretaps published by CNA regarding the conversations of Tirana Mayor Erion Veliaj with Ajola Xoxa and his brother have highlighted the scandal of how prosecutors and judges were blackmailed through the media or his connections with powerful businessmen in the country such as GS.

Veliaj also, after his arrest, through phone calls with Xoxa and Arbri, constantly asks to send people to the Minister of Justice, Ulsi Manja, so that he is not transferred to the IEVP in Tirana, which he considers Alcatraz and speaks of it in insulting and threatening language.

As if this were not enough, the mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj, from the wiretaps, also appears to have manipulated witnesses, including his mother-in-law Valbona Xoxa, Greta Domin, and Ajola Xoxa's uncle, Eraldi Simixhiu.

In the investigative file, this intervention is recorded as "flagrant".

" The intervention of the investigated person in the investigative process is very flagrant, by orienting the witnesses called by the proceeding body. In this case, the investigated person Veliaj asks his wife Ajola to encourage Greta Domin and likewise, in relation to the statements of citizens Valbona Xoxa or Eraldi Simixhiu, he tells them how they should respond, where they express that they do not want to give statements and that this is destroying the family ," it is stated in the investigative file that CNA has.

At 20:51, Ajola Xoxa talks to Erion Veliaj and tells him that she is worried that her mother and uncle Eraldi Simixhiu must appear at the Prosecutor's Office the next day.

Erion Veliaj tells him that if they ask him two or three questions, they should say " I'll ask the lawyer and tell him. I only came to answer the call, but I'm not testifying against the girl, I have no legal obligation, that's all. "

Veliaj instructs Xoxa to tell her family not to say that they stand by their statements because they have no statements to stand by.

" I don't want to testify, I don't want to testify, you're destroying an entire family," Veliaj is reported to have said in the conversation with Ajola where he teaches her how to orient witnesses.

Further on February 12 at 10:59, Veliaj talks with Ajola where they talk about the meeting of the Socialist Party Parliamentary Group requested by the Chairwoman of the Laws Committee Klotilda Bushka, a request accepted by Prime Minister Rama, and the meeting that witness Greta Domi had with Prime Minister Rama.

Veliaj asks Xoxa to encourage Greta Domin.

Regarding the meeting organized to hear Bushka, who turns out to be involved in the Veliaj-Xoxa scheme, the mayor says that Rama made them talk to themselves (referring to prosecutors and judges) and even defended Bushka./ CNA