The show in Shënjestre on News24 by journalist Klodiana Lala shed light on the serious event that happened a few days ago, where Pal Trashaj ended his life by consuming photoxy. Trashaj chose the doors of SPAK to undertake the serious act, as he had been looking for justice for 4 years and was unable to find it. The reason, a loan taken in 2008, which he claimed to have repaid, but which seemed to have entered a vicious circle, where he constantly paid and became a debtor again.
Pal Trashaj is no more.
He is no longer in this life, because they took him even when he cried out loud for him.
On Monday of this early July, after a long battle with the deafness that often accompanies justice in this country, he decided to end his life right in front of SPAK, the only institution where he had pinned his hopes that his voice would finally to be heard.
As can be seen in these last images of him in this life, he had arrived at the door of this institution to meet with one of the officers of the National Bureau of Investigation, to express his despair, after four years of ordeal long in search of the denied right.
After a great injustice that he felt was done to him by a microfinance institution, which asked him to pay the installments of a loan taken in 2008, which he claimed to have repaid.
But a few years later, when he was thinking that he had paid the last installment, he suddenly found himself in an unusual situation, knowing that he had many unpaid installments in the account.
But this meeting with the officer of the National Bureau of Investigation did not take place, and this seems to have led to the fatal thought of Pal Trashaj, the historian from Lezha, who, in the absence of justice and long fatigue of knocking on doors that did not open, decided to end his life, perhaps as a sign of revolt, right in the yard of SPAK.
How to tell everyone that his act of self-immolation should be like a screaming call to all judges and prosecutors who have the fate of people in their hands.
Even Pal Trashaj in this case, who after drinking the grain of phostoxin that he had taken with him in the yard of SPAK, died a day later in the University Hospital Center “Mother Teresa” in Tirana.
But why did Pal Trashaj decide to end his life in this tragic act, unheard of before?
What is his history with non-financial microcredit institutions, dating back to 2008, and how these institutions defrauded him and got him into debt again, now to several other debt collection institutions.
That were discussed earlier in the show “Në Shënještër” and that, like leeches, they are drinking the blood of citizens, blocking their assets, in the name of debt collection.
According to the information of the show “Në Shënjestër”, the whole long ordeal of Pal Trashaj with these institutions starts in 2008.
The time when he received a loan in the non-financial institution “Opportunity” worth 5 million old ALL, which with the final repayment of the installments, the amount went to 8 million old ALL.
This in order to pay off a previous obligation that he had. According to the data, Pal Trashaj, since “Opportunity” was not a financial institution, the loan installments would have to be paid off in a second level bank.
This was essentially the agreement that the parties had agreed to.
But while everything seemed to be going normally, one day he was taken from the institution where he had received the loan and told that from now on it was no longer necessary to go to a second-level bank to pay off the remaining installments.
But he could do this very well in ‘Opportunity’, which at this moment had changed its name to ‘NOA’. Convinced that everything was in order, Pal Trashaj decides to pay the remaining installments of the old loan of 5 million lek, to the institution where he received it.
A monthly installment that in itself was 150 thousand old ALL. But while he thought that he was finally paying off the loan, of which a part of the installments to ‘NOA’, the trouble for him one day begins and does not end with a phone call he receives from the new director of this institution.
Who, after introducing himself on the phone, invites him to appear at the microcredit offices. Where Pal Trashaj, after looking around, does not recognize any of the former employees.
But what he hears from the new director of ‘NOA’ about him is really surprising. Where he tells Pal Trashaj that he had several outstanding loan installments over the years.
A lot, which according to the new director of ‘NOA’, was 4 million 400 thousand old ALL. Something that surprises the client, who claims to have paid these installments to ‘NOA’, immediately asks the head of this institution for the relevant documentation.
But even though he requested this information in writing, Pal Trashaj never received an answer as to where the installment payments he had made to ‘NOA’ had evaporated in the meantime.
Instead, he received only an unsigned and stamped chart, which stated that in November 2011 he had not paid an installment. Likewise in February 2012.
And in a row there were 6 installments that he had not paid according to the ‘NOA’. These installments, which in themselves amounted to a lot of 900,000 old ALL, but together with interest, they had gone to 4,400,000 old ALL.
So according to NOA, now Pal Trashaj would have to pay over the first loan amount of 8 million old lek and almost 3 million and 500 thousand old lek.
So in total for the loan of 5 million old lek that he got at the beginning, he had to pay 11 million and 500 thousand old lek. This is because of the theft that the employees of this institution had committed.
Being in such a situation, he wants to open a court process. But even here “NOA” tries to become an obstacle.
After not providing the relevant documentation of repayment of the loan installments. But while he thought to leave this matter in abeyance, in 2017, another ordeal begins for him.
That of institutions that collect bad loans. Where ‘NOA’ turns out that, like many of its other clients, it had sold Trashaj’s debt to the non-financial institution ‘STAR’.
From her side, she starts calling him repeatedly, asking him to pay off the debt. Introducing himself as the institution that already had the duty to collect this debt. Otherwise, in case this debt was not returned, then they would authorize the execution to block Trashaj’s assets.
These phone calls seem to have become more and more frequent, as well as the envelopes that came to his address from the ‘STAR’ company.
Which in turn did not accept any contact with these clients. They even often used violence against citizens who went to their offices, whenever they raised their voices and asked to be informed about their situation.
