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| Sokol Feka (left) and Ermal Dinoshi |
According to the TCH, it is suspected that Major Ermal Dinoshi, with the duty of training specialist, has built a cannabis house known in the slang as a 'grass house' in the Netherlands. Sources from the Dutch police have claimed that Dinoshi was arrested first and then was decided to be investigated in a free state.
Asked about this issue, Dinoshi denied his involvement in drug cultivation.
It is about a 'grass house' erected in the Dutch town of Burnsum.
Ermal Dinoshi's case is not the only one where Armed Forces soldiers are involved in drug trafficking.
In 2015 a pilot of the helicopter regiment in Farka died in Spain in an air accident.
Sokol Feka was flying from Morocco to Spain and the helicopter he was driving was transporting drugs.
At that time, the prosecutor's office started investigations following a report made by the Ministry of Defense, as two of Feka's colleagues had also left the country at the same time.
According to the military police, Sokol Feka and his two colleagues had not applied for permission to go abroad, violating the rules provided for in the military law.
For several years now, the Armed Forces have been facing the phenomenon of military officers leaving their duties, even though this constitutes a criminal offense.
On average, about 14 members of the Armed Forces are punished every year for dereliction of duty.
Since 2015, 100 soldiers have been sentenced by the Tirana court based on the military penal code. Most of them have been sentenced in absentia after deserting.