Journalist: Mirel Mërtiri, millions of euros spent on social media in the municipality of Tirana, Kamëz and media sponsorships

2023-12-19 20:57:00, Aktualitet CNA

Journalist: Mirel Mërtiri, millions of euros spent on social media in the

Mirel Mertiri

Journalist Julian Hoxhaj published documents tracking the money of the "brain" companies of the incinerators owned by Mirel Mërtiri.

According to the journalist, only during the year 2020-2020, when the Mërtir company was under investigation by SPAK, the company has sponsored about 500 thousand euros of sponsorships for the Kamëz Municipality, which is a client, and for the municipality of Tirana, Tirana as well.

"This is an important document because it shows how the company has made staggering expenses for things that are not essentially incinerator facilities. He made expenses for the media, he paid for advertisements, spots, various TV appearances for the print media, for the TV media, which amount to 40 million ALL taken together. There is another item that is advertising materials that go up to 60 million old lek, we also have advertising spots that go for about 200 thousand euros.

Instead of translating this money into investments for the landfill, the company spends it on media, publicity spots and advertisements. We remember that in that period there was a fierce media campaign by this company. This document shows in concrete terms how exactly the money paid by Albanian taxpayers for the incinerators is spent." , he said.

Journalist: Mirel Mërtiri, millions of euros spent on social media in the

"We have another important document from 2021 that shows that there is a sponsorship for another municipality. A sponsorship of 12 million lek for the municipality of Kamza. This is a document that shows that this company, which has the municipality of Kamza as its client, the municipality that deposits urban waste in this landfill, gives this municipality a sponsorship of 12 thousand euros without giving any explanation for what. There is a need to have a public explanation from anyone who feels duty and responsibility for the sake of transparency as to why this gift was received from a company which was under investigation during this period." , the journalist said.

Journalist: Mirel Mërtiri, millions of euros spent on social media in the

Journalist Hoxhaj also focused on another document that shows that the incinerator company donated 1 million euros to the municipality of Tirana earlier in 2019 for a kindergarten in the capital.

Journalist: Mirel Mërtiri, millions of euros spent on social media in the