Scandal/ Full scheme unveiled: How incinerator owners, pay Top Channel shareholders

In two days in a row, CNA.al has brought a full investigation, regarding a sale-purchase transaction in Albania, on a company owned by the owners of Top Channel, Valtelina sh.p.k. which has sold 51% of the shares to a Bulgarian company, called EM Capital Group AD, to a sum of about $2.2 million.

With exclusive documents, CNA.al, showed that the Bulgarian company is owned by three people, Klodian Zoto, Eva Blushi, the wife of Top Channel director Ben Blushi, and Mirel (Klodian) Mërtiri.

This company created in Bulgaria, is the case that shows very clearly how the director of a television, named Ben Blushi, a former politician, is directly related to the owners of a very much accused company in Albania, but also the owner of Top Channel, Vjollca Hoxha and which has sold the shares to this firm.

A concession, which has been called a corrupt affair by the government, not only by the opposition, but also by the media. Reporters’reports speak of at least 47 million euros paid by the government to the incinerator company, ITS. This company in Albania is a subject, which is represented by Klodian Zoto and Mirel Mërtiri, the latter also uses the name Klodian.

Top Channel scandal

In almost two years Top Channel, as soon as Ben Blushi took the charge of the director, has shown the “sword” in defense of incinerators, and allegedly in the name of social causes and in defense of citizens, has prepared dozens of chronicles in Porto Romano, Durres, which in fact have had another purpose.

So not for the citizens, but for the firm that would then buy not a little, but 2.2 million dollars worth of shares from the owner of Top Channel in another of its companies. The facts speak for themselves. The company in Bulgaria, EM Capital Grup AD, came to Tirana on November 25 through its director David Ujait, and through a sum of 2.2 million dollars bought the company Valtelina, one of the leading companies in the coffee market, which is also the holder of trade name and brand “Lori Coffee”.

This company was once owned by the late Dritan Hoxha and then his heirs. According to official data and the sales contract provided by CNA.al, it turns out that the Bulgarian company with three owners, two of those incinerators and Ben Blushi’s wife, bought “Lori Coffee” and in the NBC (National Business Center) documents, the contract of the sale presents all the data for the sales party which is Vjollca Hoxha, Lorena Hoxha, Redia Hoxha and Sara Hoxha, on whose behalf signed Vjollca Hoxha. While for the company EM Capital Group AD, has signed the director David Ujait. Everything was done in the presence of notary Majlinda Demollari.

So the owners of the incinerators set up a company in Bulgaria with Ben Blushi’s wife. The company comes to Tirana, and buys 51% of the shares of “Valtelina SHPK”, which is owned by Vjollca Hoxha and Dritan Hoxha’s heirs, who are the same owners of Top Channel and several other companies inherited from the late Dritan Hoxha.

The scheme is very clear. From the company of incinerators, from Albania you go to Bulgaria. In Bulgaria, we have a company that includes Ben Blushi’s wife, the latter director of Top Channel. Then Ben Blushi’s wife, along with the two owners of the incinerators, of the concession so accused by the opposition and the media, buy the company that has the same owners as Top Channel.

Top Channel symbol. Coffee symbol in Albania, “Lori Coffee”. This is a clear scheme, that we showed above with documents and below we are bringing a picture, where we have built in a row the characters involved in this whole story. And that seems to have a very bad smell.

It is the most flagrant case, where the owners of a highly accused company, which receives money from the government, and is called a government corruption, go and pay the owners of Top Channel.

Not directly to the television, but through a second company, which they own. And this is the case when Vjollca Hoxha, even though she has signed the sale of 51% of the shares to EM Capital Group AD, has remained the administrator of “Valtelina shpk”. So the company that owns “Lori Coffee”.

Although she has sold most of the shares, in other word the controlling shares, Ms.Hoxha has remained the administrator of the company. This is a case, where the Albanian state clearly gives a concession of incinerators several hundred million euros.

After that, these owners go and found a company with the wife of the director of a television,

and then the wife of the director of television together with the owners of incinerators, from Bulgaria comes to Albania, and buys a company which is owned by the same owners, who have Top Channel, where Ben Blushi is the director.

Top Channel national television has “rewarded” everything with propaganda, in favor of government and the municipality of Tirana. A television station, that has done nothing else except defending for two years the incinerator concession, that is been heavily accused not only by the media, but also by the opposition. Propaganda for the government that has given the concession, propaganda for the municipality of Tirana, which has the official relationship with the firm for the incinerator and the landfill of Sharra./CNA.al

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