After finding and seizing 125 cannabis sativa plants inside the military ward in Zall Herr, the General Staff of the Armed Forces held an emergency meeting, deciding the release from duty of 4 soldiers, as well as the proposed release of 10 others.
Relieved from duty are the security specialist in the detection section, the infrastructure specialist, deputy Platoon commander in the Support Company, as well as storekeeper, simultaneously also a driver in the Support Company.
It is learned that for the 10 soldiers proposed for release from duty, 6 are from the Ground Forces and 4 others from the Military Police. Among them, the Commander of the Military Department, the Commander of the Military Police, the chief of the military staff, specialists and inspectors, as well as crime agents of the military police.
Earlier, during the operation, where cannabis plants were discovered inside the ward, after air controls by the Italian Guardia di finanza, three soldiers, Gramoz Mullai, Rustem Koçi and Gentian Zhurda, were arrested for abuse of duty, who were remanded in prison from the court.
They said that there are 140 hectares of land and they did not have the opportunity to control the entire surface and that they informed their superiors about the broken and damaged territory. While 4 other soldiers were prosecuted in a free state, but for abuse of duty, with suspicions that they are responsible for planting cannabis in the department and that they did not properly control the area.
Among them, the commander and deputy commander of the department. The cannabis plants were allegedly planted 3 months ago at the combat support battalion and had reached 2.7 meters in height and were in the final stages of harvesting. The narcotic was planted in a wooded area divided into 6 small plots.
/abcnews.al
