Valentina Leskaj
Socialist Party (PS)
Legal status
Status unknown
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What this means: The research does not establish this person's legal status.
Profile
Former Socialist Party MP and deputy speaker. Tirana Times reports that her sons lead a company which won a government concession for part of the Fier-Vlorë railway line, and that the parliamentary mandate committee rejected a Democratic Party request to remove her mandate. The company was not named in the snippet reviewed, and no link to the concession holder Albrail was confirmed.
Response from Valentina Leskaj
Per Tirana Times summary: her lawyer argued the deal was with a foreign company, not with the government.
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 1 Nov 2015
Valentina Leskaj's sons' company and the Fier-Vlorë railway concession (opposition complaint)
In 2015 the Democratic Party asked parliament to end the mandate of Socialist MP Valentina Leskaj, arguing that her sons' company had obtained a 25-year concession on part of the Ballsh-Fier-Vlorë…
Status: Parliamentary committee rejected the request; no court finding found.
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Connections
Open the map →sons (as stated by Tirana Times and the DP)
Evidence: Tirana Times refers to 'Leskaj's sons' who lead the company that won the concession; the opposition's complaint is that the sons benefited from her position.
sons' company claimed to hold rail concession (unconfirmed)
Evidence: Tirana Times reports Leskaj's sons lead the company that won the Fier-Vlorë concession; the company is not named in the snippet and no Albrail ownership record was found.
What they said vs. what the documents show
What was said · unknown
Through her lawyer, Valentina Leskaj said the claim that her sons benefited from a government concession is untrue: the deal was with a foreign company, not the government; the sons had no government links and did not profit from public funds (Tirana Times).
Speaker: Valentina Leskaj
Tirana Times: MP whose sons got public concession gets to keep mandate (fetched) (opens in a new tab)Tirana Times · unknown · journalism · EN
What the documents show
The article gives no concession contract or grantor document. The existing Albrail entry inrecords a 25-year concession signed 4 February 2016 (from an earlier search result), but no source reviewed confirms a link to the Leskaj sons.
- Albrail (company website; seen in an earlier search result, recorded in (opens in a new tab)Albrail · unknown · other · EN
Sources for this record
Every source the research cites for this record, grouped by its source label. 3 sources.
Source label: DisputedDisputed · 2 sources
- Publisher
- Tirana Times
- Date
- unknown
- Publisher
- Albrail
- Date
- unknown
Source label: UnverifiedUnverified · 1 source
- Publisher
- Tirana Times
- Date
- unknown