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Scandal-From media owners, to offshore companies/ Complete incinerator concession scheme, names included

27 Prill 2020, 06:29, English CNA
Scandal-From media owners, to offshore companies/ Complete incinerator

Concessions, Public-Private Partnerships, tenders, corruption, scandals, endless accusations have been made about a group of businessmen and the Albanian government for waste processing, which starts in Elbasan, goes to Fier, and ends in Tirana.

Hundreds of millions of euros, which are associated with the same names, the same actors, but with the names of different companies, which start in Tirana, end up in Malta, and the Netherlands. Characters with changed names, and with dubious past.

Accused of being part of criminal groups, but in companies related to each other, there are also former local managers, lawyers, people without any business activity, who at some point ?explode? and receive concessions of hundreds of millions of euros, including televisions, politicians, businessmen.

Accusations, which are scandal after scandal and everything ends quietly. Because the opposition denounces in emptiness, and nothing goes into investigation. But even the justice authorities, which are there to investigate and uncover the corruption of a chain of companies involved with the Albanian government, don?t move a single finger.

Neither the SPAK, nor the so called new justice, no one. Not to mention the purchased media, which without any surprise already, exclusively and not only Top Channel, for example, whose shareholders have a joint company with shareholders of incinerators.

But how do these schemes relate with each other? How do these names relate? Who are this companies? Beyond the political accusations, beyond the accusations against the government, let?s stay on the subjects, their connections, and how these links end up in the media.

The most talked about and accused name is Klodian Zoto, the 100% owner of Integrated Technology Services. A company, which is leader in the scheme of waste concessions and incinerators. According to official data released by the NBC (National Business Center), Klodian Zoto founded this company in 2010, and surprisingly the biggest development came with the coming to power of the Renaissance (Socialist Party), where he began to create jobs for himself and to increase his income.

The person who represents him, according to the NBC documents, is Denisa Tollkuçi. Since

he is the general administrator, has issued a special power of attorney and has given a representation to Mrs.Tollkuçi. According to official data, this company has its offices in Fier and Elbasan at the processing site of the urban waste processing plant, at the electrical substation in Fushë Mbret.

But, further searching in the documents, we discover another company which has almost the same address and operates in the same place. The company is called Albtek Energy. This is the company that has received the Elbasan incinerator by concession.

This company has also the address at the Urban Waste Processing Plant, Electric Station, Fushë Mbret. So it has the same address as the company of Klodian Zoto in Elbasan. So, here Klodian Zoto connections with the incinerator of Elbasan, and with the owner of this incinerator.

Stela Gugalla, which founded this company in 2014.

On July 10, 2014, and then surprisingly even though there is no major previous activity the business, she becomes the owner of the incinerators, earning tens of millions of euros in concession. From the data that match the address, it is not only that of Elbasan. But further investigations, reveal some other data of different companies of Stella or Klodian Zotos, which have the same address.

Investigating with documents, we go to the third company. This time looking again for the name of Stela Gugalla, who just found out that she had the same offices with Klodian Zoto, with the company Integrated Technology Services. Albtek Energy, Stella?s company, was the one that held the concession of the Elbasan incinerator.

But what turns out?

It turns out that in 2016, two new companies were founded at the same time, in almost four or five days. One with Italian citizens, and in another company the shareholder is Stela Gugallja with 40% of the quotas, and the administrator is Mirel Mërtiri, one of the most talked regarding the concession of incinerators.

The latter did not appear in the documents before. But it is already clear who is Mirel Mërtiri connections with the incinerator concession, and this concession ends up in joint actions in the company of Vjollca Hoxha of Top Channel, and the wife of the former deputy Ben Blushi.

On April 19, the Energy Recuperator company was registered at the National Business Center. This foreign company, has legal representatives Ernesto Granelli and legal representatives of the representative office Mario Granelli. These are the two responsible persons, and their office is located at the Concord Center complex, tower 3, level 2, fifth floor, apartment 29.

And in this address we find another company, with the name ER One Albania, ie Energji Recuperator One Albania. Perhaps there is a name that comes from the first company of italian shareholders. But what connects ER One with Stela Gugallaj, or with Klodian Zoto and the italians?

ER One Albania is a company founded only five days after Energy Recuperator, which a week later after registration, becomes a shareholder and 60% in another company, which is called ER One Albania shpk, where 40% of shares are owned by Stela Gugallja of the incinerator of Elbasan and Albtek Energy, and the administrator of the company is Mirel Mërtiri.

So, these are the four companies connected to each other in the network, with the same addresses, with almost the same business activity, and exercising the same functions.

So they are involved in government concessions, PPPs, and Stela Gugallja, Klodian Zoto and Mirel Mërtiri are the well-known trio, but another name that emerges from these is the one we mentioned above. Denisa Tollkuçi?s name. Not without purpose, we mentioned this name, which is also represented in another company.

In EM Capital Group, the fifth company that connects for the first time in Albania with one medium, shareholders of concessions and PPP shareholders of incinerators. And for the first time in Albania, this is confirmed in documents.

In 2016, another company was born, Integreted Technology Waste Treatment in Fier, which has the same address as one of Klodian Zoto?s companies. This company has a partner Integrated Technology Services. So 70 % of the shares and the Construction and Installation company in Patos. Integrated Technology Services, which is the company that holds 70% of the shares Integreted Technology Waste Treatment in Fier, is ITS, the first company we mentioned above, which has as its owner with 100% of the shares Klodian Zoto.

The latter has opened a new company for the Fier incinerator, where he has introduced another shareholder. So their connection becomes even greater. A company is added within 30% of the shares, which is Construction and Installation company in Patos, Fier.

This company, i.e the company opened for Fier, is placed in the same address as the first company of Klodian Zoto in Fier, and in the same address in Tirana. But, here it is clear that Klodian Zoto has opened another company, and has taken this only for the incinerator of Fier.

According to the extracts that we have listed above, so the first, second, third and fourth company, we are bringing the fifth extract.

This is owned by EM Capital Group, the company that has bought a 51% stake in ?Valtelina Coffee?, which bears the trade name ?Lori Coffe?, and has the same shareholders as Top Channel. And in this company EM Capital Group, according to the extract extracted from Bulgaria, it turns out that the shareholders are Mirel Mërtiri, Klodian Zoto and Eva Blushi, the latter the wife of the director of Top Channel, Ben Blushi.

Then, with a sum about $2.2 million, this company landed in Albania and bought ?Valtelina Coffee?. This is a scheme, where it is emerged very clear through various companies, their addresses and locations, how the Italian companies, Ernesto Granelli, are connected to Stela Gugalla and Mirel Mërtiri, but also to Albtech Energy, which has the Elbasan incinerator and where Stela Gugalla is a shareholder, or at Klodian Zoto?s Integrated Technology Services, the company that holds the same address and the same offices as Stella, Klodian, italian Ernesto Granelli and Mirel Mërtiri himself.

The latter in our investigation, appears also in offshore, in a journalist organization, he appears in a company registered in Malta, which is called according to the data, KL Group LTD. This company, is a fiscal heaven, where the company of Mirel Mërtiri has been registered, which has been rumored until today, but its connection with Klodian Zoto, Stela Gugalla of the incinerator of Elbasan and an italian citizen, has never been confirmed with documents.

So far, we have shown with documents the connection of four people, and the cooperation with the Bulgarian company EM Capital Group, which has bought ?Valtelina Coffee?, and according to the NRC extract, you can see on the first and second page the shareholder of ?Valtelina Coffee?, i.e Vjollca Hoxha?s partnership with EM Capital Group.

Further, from our data it turns out that there is a strong family connection of Mirel Mërtiri with Stela Gugalla. So they are not just random names, but are cohabitants in one of the capital?s residential areas, and the companies are a deliberately built network, and not just for incinerator activity.

According to these documents, the incinerator-media connection has been confirmed fourfold for the first time. The way companies are registered under different names, are almost the same, have the same owners. But on paper, they move somewhere to Klodi, once to Stela, to Mërtiri, to an italian, and so on.

These are the companies, and these are the extracts that we brought above, and that clearly show who is involved in the scheme of incinerators, from Elbasan to Fier. Our investigation does not end here. We will go further to the incinerator of Tirana.

So, we will show the development of a dutch company with a 30-year concession, for 128 million euros, and this one related to several scandals, accusations and corruption, for which the finger has been pointed out by the Municipality of Tirana and his mayor Erion Veliaj.

The facts speak for themselves, the names are, but CNA.al will further bring other exclusive.

Data, regarding these concessions, a field where still no one is officially investigating. Not just for the procedure, but for the connections of how the same company and individuals benefit from concessions.

At a certain moment, come out the names of people with strange business activity, without income, and then receive concessions with hundreds of millions of euros, loans in very large amounts in second-tier banks, but also with different schemes, that do not stop only at the concession, but also on the waste processing fees, and the way of administration of landfills, like landfill of Tirana, or the case of two incinerators, that the Albanian government has paid without starting work. These are data that CNA.al will develop them further, bringing details to each case./ CNA.al.

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