On Monday, former DPM Grubi, who’s blacklisted by the U.S., was taken to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for questioning. According to the investigation opened over a year ago, there are suspicions that he unlawfully allowed VLT machines to be purchased.
The National Lottery spent over eight million euros on the procurement, which the Office says was the amount of financial damage caused to the budget. The intention was for the Lottery to organize games of chance independently, even though that right had been given to a private company a decade prior.
The idea for the procurement and independent organization of games of chance had come from then-Lottery Director Bajrami. He, too, is charged with embezzlement in the service.
If found guilty, Grubi, who was issued a 30-day detention measure while he was at large, and Bajrami will each spend at least four years behind bars.
From the Prosecutor’s Office, where he spent around five and a half hours, Grubi was taken to the Criminal Court for further procedure, Telma reported at around 6:30 p.m.
A couple of hours later, the institution accepted the Prosecutor’s Office’s proposal for a 30-day house arrest measure, In its proposal, the Office said that it was taking into consideration that the majority of evidence had been secured during the procedure, that Grubi had voluntary turned himself in, as well as that there were indications that in the detention ward, his personal safety couldn’t be guaranteed.