TIRANA, November 12/ATA/ General Director of the Albanian Cadastre Artan Lame reacted today regarding several cases identified by this institution for attempts to produce false ownership documents, manipulated ownership certificates, or to include suspicious documents in the existing official documentation.
In a statement to the media, Lame emphasized that, “As long as the old Property Registration Office was based on handwritten papers, such things could exist.”
“But, now that we are in the age of the computer, we have two things that have changed: First, the computer cannot be corrupted and it shows immediately when something goes wrong; Second, the computer leaves a trace, since every action on the computer has a date, hour, minute and second, as well as the name of the person who did the action,” said Lame.
The head of the Cadastre pointed out that in all kinds of forged documents are starting to get stuck in the network of the electronic system.
“We have identified such cases in some of the regional directorates of Tirana, Kamza, Fier and Durrës. All these cases identified so far will be reported by name and surname to the respective Prosecutor’s Offices and those who have committed them will have to answer for the actions they have taken. I have not tolerated any identified case of internal employees of the Cadastre, so I am going to tolerate property abuses committed by outsiders even less,” added Lame.
Lame called on the masses of honest citizens to be careful when buying property or carrying out actions with their property.
“Not every piece of paper that is handed to you by all kinds of double dealers is a certificate of ownership. In all cases when you need to do such actions, turn to your trusted lawyer or notary, as these are persons who bear legal responsibility for the action they perform. Above all, apply to the Cadastre offices to request preliminary information, which is the safest,” said Lame./k.s/j.p/p.s./
