Donated 55 million euros to the tender/ Head behind the "tail" of Veliaj, propaganda in poor areas

2024-06-10 17:28:00, Aktualitet CNA

Donated 55 million euros to the tender/ Head behind the "tail" of

Xhemal Qefalia, Erion Veliaj in Zall Bastar, photo source, Mayor Veliaj's Facebook

Mayor Erion Veliaj today held a meeting in one of the poorest areas of Tirana, Zall Bastarin.

Although almost his entire chain of command has fallen, with lawyers in prison and others under investigation for abuses, Veliaj finds time to spread propaganda in an impoverished area.

But beyond that, in the meeting with the residents of Zall Bastar, Erion Veliaj is accompanied by the deputy Xhemal Qefalia, whose family members are accused of tender abuse.

The Xhemal brothers have received 55 million euros of tenders and construction permits with Veliaj's own company, when Kujtim Qefalia, the brother of the socialist deputy, was the Administrator of Dajt Municipality.

This denunciation was made by the political leader of the PD for Tirana, Belind Kelliçi, who explained in a statement to the media how the companies of the Qefalia family flourished with the "blessing" of the mayor Erion Veliaj, who signed a series of construction permits.

What is happening is scandalous. While he gives tenders worth tens of millions of euros to his people, in Zall Bastar, in the poor area of ??Tirana, he makes propaganda for the construction of a bridge.

The denunciation made earlier by the political leader of the DP for Tirana, Belind Kelliçi

Kujtim Qefalia in 1999 founded the company Qefalia sh.pk, which today bears the name Dajti Park 2007. In 2007, the gentleman in question, after being elected mayor, transferred the shares of this company to citizen Ylber Osman Kalaja.

After the election of Kujtim Qefalija at the head of the Dajt Municipality, this company began to flourish by obtaining more than 4 construction permits in the area of ??Fresk and Qesaraka, with Kujtim Qefalija's own signature. In 2016, Kujtim's brother, Lulzim Qefalia, the other character you see in the photo, was appointed administrator of this company.

In December 2018, Ylber Kalaja decided to donate the shares of the company. He gave 50% to his son and 50% to Lulzim Qefalia. A very large charitable gesture considering that the value of these shares was 1.7 million euros.

Ylber Kalaja in the same period is convicted of corruption for the famous tenders in the General Directorate of Prisons. Surprisingly, the company Dajti Park 2007, which had benefited from these tenders through corruption, is not punished, is not put under sequestration and is not excluded from participating in public procurements.

The donation of 50% of the shares to the brother of Kujtim Qefalia is irrefutable proof that Ylber Kalaja was simply a prestanome.

In April 2022, Erion Veliaj decides to reward the Qefalia family company with a giant construction permit for a hotel and residence near the Sami Frashëri Gymnasium, in one of the most coveted areas of Tirana.

But the Dajti Park 2007 company was not satisfied with this construction permit alone. This company has won 30 tenders in the Municipality of Tirana, during the period that Veliaj was chairman, worth 10 million euros.

Erion Veliaj gave these tenders to the Qefalia family through the Funeral Services Agency and the Reconstruction Program.

The company of the Qefalia brothers has also received 9 tenders worth 2.5 million euros from the Ministry of Health and 20 tenders worth 6.9 million euros from the Central Purchasing Agency, where the tenders in the General Directorate of Prisons stand out again.

Kujtim Qefalia, through his son-in-law and his family members employed in the Municipality of Tirana, has benefited through the AL-POINT company tender 4.8 million euros for the construction of a building in the area of ??5 Mait, where Veliaj took the families out of their homes with tear gas destroyed homes and the work of a lifetime. Also, this company has benefited from 2 more building permits signed by Veliaj.

Through the company ISEC sh.pk, owned by his close family members, Kujtim Qefalia has benefited about 700,000 euros from tenders until today as we speak.

In total, the Qefalia family, starting after the arrival of 'Renaissance' in power, has benefited about 25 million euros from tenders, of which 15 million euros only from the Municipality of Tirana with the signature of Erion Veliajt, as well as 3 construction permits that are calculated at market value in the figure of 30 million euros.

On May 14 of last year, Kujtim Qefalia was the Political Director of Erion Veliaj for the area of ??the former Dajt Municipality and surrounding villages. As never before, during that campaign a real electoral massacre took place, which is explained quite simply when you see that the Qefalia family, with Erion Veliaj's signature and not only, benefited only from the companies that we managed to discover, at least 55 million euros./ CNA

The photos in this article were taken from the website of the mayor Erion Veliaj