The arrest of Berber and his 2 friends/ SPAK clears up the investigations

2024-03-14 12:03:00, Aktualitet CNA

The Special Prosecutor's Office against Corruption and Organized Crime has mainly registered criminal proceedings No. 214, of 2023, for the criminal offenses "Violation of the equality of participants in tenders", "Active corruption of persons exercising public functions", committed in cooperation, "Passive corruption of persons exercising public functions", "Cleaning of products of criminal offense or criminal activity", carried out in collaboration, provided by articles 258, 244-25, 259, 287/2 of the Criminal Code.

After conducting investigative actions, at the request of the Special Prosecutor's Office (filed on 07.03.2024), the Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime with decision No. 21, dated 13.03.2024 decided:

1. The appointment of the coercive personal security measure "Arrest in prison", provided by article 238 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, for the person under investigation EB, with the duty of General Director of the Albanian Road Authority, as a suspect for committing criminal offenses " Passive corruption of persons exercising public functions", "Cleaning of the proceeds of a criminal offense or criminal activity", carried out in cooperation, provided by articles 259, 287/2 of the Criminal Code.

2. The assignment of the personal security measure "Arrest in prison", provided by article 238 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, for the person under investigation VB, sole partner and administrator of the company "N.... Group" sh.pk, and partner of the company "D...." sh.pk, as a suspect for the commission of criminal offenses "Active corruption of persons exercising public functions", committed in cooperation, "Cleaning of the proceeds of a criminal offense or criminal activity", committed in collaboration, provided by articles 244-25, 287/2 of the Criminal Code.

3. The appointment of the coercive personal security measure "Arrest in prison", provided by article 238 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, for the person under investigation EL, administrator of the company "D...." sh.pk, and an employee of the company "N…….Group" sh.pk, as suspected of committing the criminal offenses "Active corruption of persons exercising public functions", committed in cooperation, "Cleaning of the proceeds of the criminal offense or of criminal activity", carried out in cooperation, provided by articles 244-25, 287/2 of the Criminal Code.

The General Directorate of the State Police executed on 13.03.2024, the security measures determined by decision No. 21, dated 13.03.2024, of the Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime, against the three investigators .

Nga analiza e provave të marra deri në këtë fazë të hetimit është krijuar dyshimi i arsyeshëm se, shtetasi E. B., fillimisht në cilësinë e ish Drejtorit të Përgjithshëm për Efiçencën e Energjisë, më pas në cilësinë e Drejtorit të Përgjithshëm të Autoritetit Rrugor Shqiptar, ka kërkuar, ka pranuar dhe ka marrë nga shoqëria “N……. Group”,sh.p.k., (që është përfituesi i prokurimeve publike të zhvilluara gjatë kohës kur shtetasi E. B. ishte titullar i autoritetit kontraktor), përfitime të parregullta monetare të marra në mënyrë të tërthortë, nëpërmjet shoqërisë “D……. sh.p.k., të kontrolluar prej tij. Marrja e këtyre përfitimeve është realizuar pas fitimit të procedurave të prokurimit nga ana e shoqërisë “N…… Group”, sh.p.k., në zotërim të shtetasit nën hetim V. B., prokurime publike të zhvilluara me titullar të autoritetit kontraktor, shtetasin E.B., dhe më pas kanë kaluar vlera monetare nëpërmjet transaksioneve në drejtim të shoqërisë në zotërim indirekt të shtetasit E. B. “D…..” sh.p.k, me përfitues shtetasin E. B.. Këto vlera monetare të përfituara në mënyrë të parregullt, nëpërmjet shtetasve V. B., E. L. dhe B. B., i ka investuar në veprimtarinë ekonomike për blerjen e pasurive të paluajtshme në emër të shoqërisë “D…..”sh.p.k, që përbëjnë edhe produkte të veprës penale. Në këto rrethana shtetasi E. B., dyshohet për kyerjen e veprave penale “Korrupsioni pasiv i personave që ushtrojnë funksione publike” dhe “Pastrimi i produkteve të veprës penale apo i veprimtarisë kriminale”, të parashikuara nga neni 287, gërma “d” të Kodit Penal, e kryer në rrethana cilësuese “në bashkëpunim”, sipas nenit 287/2 të Kodit Penal.

While the citizen VB in the capacity of a partner of the company "N.... Group", sh.pk, due to winning the public procurement procedures developed by the Agency for Energy Efficiency and the Albanian Road Authority, with the holder of the contracting authority the citizen EB , has transferred monetary values ??in the direction of the company "D……" sh.pk, indirectly owned by the EB citizen, but managed by the BB, EL and VB citizens, with the aim of giving an irregular benefit to the EB citizen Regarding the actions of their illegality, the citizens of VB, EL and BB, in cooperation with each other, are suspected of having consumed elements of the criminal offense "Active corruption of persons exercising public functions", in cooperation, provided by article 244, 25 of the Criminal Code. The investment in the economic activity of these monetary values ??obtained in an irregular manner, for the purchase of real estate in the name of the company "D...."sh.pk, were made during the time when the citizens VB, EL and BB, which also constitute products of the criminal offense. In these circumstances, the citizens of VB, EL and BB, in cooperation with the citizen EB, are suspected of the criminal offense "Cleaning the proceeds of a criminal offense or criminal activity", provided by article 287, letter "d" of the Criminal Code, committed in qualifying circumstances "in cooperation", according to article 287/2 of the Criminal Code.

The investigation has shown that during the time when the EB citizen was under the authority of the contracting authority, the Agency for Energy Efficiency, three procurement procedures were developed in the total value of 137,400,000 (one hundred and thirty-seven million and four hundred thousand) ALL without VAT. , with the winning operator, the company of the VB citizen, "N...Group" sh.pk. Whereas during the time when the EB citizen was under the capacity of the holder of the contracting authority, the Albanian Road Authority, three procurement procedures were developed in the total value of 101,811, 343 ( one hundred and one million eight hundred and eleven thousand three hundred and forty-three) lek, excluding VAT, with the winner being the union of operators with the participation of the citizen society VB, "N...Group" sh.pk

Also, the investigation has resulted that the company "D...."sh.pk, indirectly owned by the citizen EB, has benefited from income through transactions from the company of the citizen VB "N....Group"sh.pk, in the amount of 223,480,476 ( two hundred and twenty-three million four hundred and eighty thousand four hundred and seventy-six) Lek, with VAT.