Pal Trashaj, 63, lost his life after consuming f*toks*ne during a protest in front of SPAK, where he was demanding justice and an investigation into the criminal micro-loan scheme that has burdened hundreds of thousands of Albanians with inflated obligations.
Since 2020, Trashaj has been demanding investigations into what he considered theft and excessive obligations, but no one has been investigated.
In the absence of justice, he was seeking justice, while he had taken the loan from the NOA financial foundation and the problems had arisen, precisely for the installments paid to the branch of this company in Lezha.
A short time ago, Trashaj became part of a public denunciation of micro-loans, during an interview for TCh.
Raiffeisen Bank, where the 63-year-old had repaid some of the installments, was also involved in the 63-year-old’s loan, turns out.
Pal Trashaj’s testimony:
In 2008, he took out a loan of 5 million old lek, from Opportunity, which later turned into NOA.
Since they were not a bank, I would pay the installments at Raiffeisen Bank, every month I would pay about 150 thousand old lek”.
I would pay off the installment every month, but Opportunity turned into NOA. I paid off about five installments from 2011 to 2013 at NOA in Lezha. It was on my way to work and I would pass by there, so I paid 5 installments there.
In the 5th year, the loan repayment ended, for a 5 million lek loan, I had to pay 8 million old lek.
After I paid off the debt, they took me to the NOA office in Lezha, they told me I owed NOA 400 thousand old lek.
I told him why, and he said I don’t know anything, I’m new. They were all new staff. I asked for their claims in writing, they didn’t give them to me.
I went back later, he gave me a balance sheet, where he told me that I had missing installments of about 900 thousand lek, but together with the interests, it was 4.4 million old lek.
Troshaj says that this happened because of the theft that was committed at the NOA office in Lezha.
In 2017, the phone calls started, and then the envelopes, companies that said we bought your bad credit and we will do the execution.
Envelopes with red seals came for 2-3 years. I went to the Enforcement Company, where there were dozens of citizens who were paying, complaining. There was a team of young thugs there who were being abused to rape people.
The letters that came, one said 4.4 million, the other 4.8.
After these procedures, Pal Trashaj’s property was frozen, specifically the apartment, but without selling it to him, only freezing it.
They were like a thief who comes out on the street, if you resist they won’t take it, if you give in they will take it, I didn’t give in.
In the end, for the 5 million old lek that Trashaj received, he paid 8 million regularly, and the 4.4 million they demanded for delays and commissions, the debt came to 12.4 million old lek.
