An investigative file from the Elbasan Prosecutor’s Office raises suspicions that the economic aid scheme was used for electoral influence in the parliamentary elections of May 11, 2025. The strongest element to emerge from the checks is that 55 of the 60 families included in the investigation sample were found to have been removed from the scheme in May-June 2026, after the election process had ended and the mandate had been secured.
What the investigative file contains
According to the Elbasan Prosecutor’s Office file, dozens of families are suspected of having been included in the economic aid scheme in order to vote for then-candidate Sara Mila.
The investigative materials state that employees of the Social Service in Elbasan are suspected of having fictitiously increased the number of beneficiary families during the campaign period. The investigation has also identified cases in which applications for various citizens were completed by the institution’s employees themselves.
According to the investigation’s version of events, some of the people listed as economic aid beneficiaries were outside Albania and living abroad, raising serious questions about the administration’s checks and filters.
The removal of 55 families after the elections
At the center of the file is also the subsequent movement within the scheme. According to the prosecutor’s checks, of the 60 families included in the investigation sample, about 55 were removed from economic aid in the months of May-June 2026.
This development occurred at a time when the prosecuting authority had already launched its investigation and was taking statements from people holding state functions. This sequence in time makes even more serious the suspicion that inclusion in the scheme may not have been sustainable or based solely on legal criteria.
The file also notes that most of the verified families lost the benefit immediately after the elections ended, adding to suspicions that the scheme may have been used as an electoral instrument rather than as regular social support.
Testimony and recorded communications
Social Service employees told prosecutors that in March 2025, after the campaign began, the head of the institution asked them to increase the number of beneficiary families.
The file also contains communications between Social Service employees and the institution’s managers. According to the investigation, the name of MP Sara Mila is also mentioned in these communications.
The materials were then forwarded to SPAK to investigate the MP’s possible role in this matter, while the focus remains on how the applications were handled and whether the social administration was put at the service of political interest.
Appearance at SPAK and Sara Mila’s position
Sara Mila appeared this Wednesday at SPAK, where she gave explanations regarding the case. After leaving the institution, she said that she is fighting for her dignity and that, according to her, she is facing political attacks.
Asked about suspicions that economic aid may have been used to secure votes in her favor, the MP did not give a concrete answer, limiting herself to the argument that the matter is under investigative secrecy.
So far, Mila continues to hold her parliamentary mandate, while the case remains under investigation. In the public sphere, the main question remains whether a social scheme financed with public money was used for electoral purposes and then shut down for dozens of families as soon as the votes were no longer needed.
The investigation has not yet produced a criminal conclusion, but the data in the file add to suspicions of the use of the administration and economic aid for political influence in Elbasan.
For that very reason, the weight of the case lies not only in the names involved, but in the pattern that emerges from the file: entry into the scheme during the campaign and mass removal after the elections.