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What about Tirana's non-existent incinerator, Mr. Prime Minister?

2026-07-10 12:42:00, Aktualitet REDAKSIONALE

Prime Minister Edi Rama has presented the new national program "Urban Renaissance 2.0", where during his speech he also mentioned the issue of waste.

According to Rama, once the concern was when the garbage trucks arrived, while today, as the prime minister says, the concern is how the waste is processed.

"The minister said the waste issue used to be that it wasn't a problem of how waste is processed, but when the garbage truck would arrive. Today, the concern is how waste is processed, another topic is participation in non-pollution, which is minimalist," said Rama.

What about Tirana's non-existent incinerator, Mr. Prime Minister?

In fact, regarding the waste issue, today more of a concern than waste processing is Tirana's ghost incinerator.

For years, it has sucked up Albanian taxpayers' money, hundreds of millions of euros, and only a few "scoundrels" have been brought to justice for this affair that has been called the affair of the century.

There are still no charges against those truly responsible, as the prosecutor of this file, Dritan Prençi, has decided to sleep on the file, even after the facts and evidence that have been placed before him, choosing not to file even a single charge against the mayor of Tirana, who is implicated in this affair, where the tentacles reach all the way to his wife Ajola Xoxa.

CNA has shown them with facts and evidence.

Dritan Prençi has before him documents accusing Erion Veliaj, the arrested mayor of Tirana, of 13 charges for 5 serious criminal offenses, but refuses to press at least one charge against him.

CNA has published a document showing that Erion Veliaj gave the "ok" for the incinerator without consulting the Municipal Council. Erion Veliaj has signed important documents related to the Tirana incinerator project.

What about Tirana's non-existent incinerator, Mr. Prime Minister?

In March 2017, Veliaj signed a document accepting the feasibility study for the construction of the Tirana incinerator. This study later turned out to have falsified costs.

Veliaj signed an annex-contract that transferred significant financial responsibility for this project to the Municipality of Tirana. Veliaj undertook to represent not only the Municipality of Tirana, but also four other municipalities in the region, without consulting them, paving the way for a 30-year concession contract with an initial value of 128 million euros.

What about Tirana's non-existent incinerator, Mr. Prime Minister?

The contract was signed without the prior approval of the City Council, violating the law on local self-government. This document is evidence to accuse Veliaj of abuse of office and unauthorized financial commitments. But the mayor has more than one signature thrown into the affair.

Veliaj and his firm have committed to making all payments for the storage and processing of the minimum amount of waste at a price of 29 euros per ton excluding VAT, throughout the duration of the agreement (for the next 30 years), but he also committed to providing assistance for all procedures related to the construction and operation of the non-existent Tirana incinerator.

CNA has published the document that shows how Erion Veliaj's directors signed to become "soldiers" of the Tirana landfill company. An agreement that shows how Veliaj's directors, but also other people, built the territorial control scheme for the lands, adding double the income to the incinerator affair, with a scheme that goes for more than 60 million euros, but perhaps even more.

What about Tirana's non-existent incinerator, Mr. Prime Minister?

CNA has published the document that shows exactly the connection of Ajola Xoxa with the Sharra landfill. CNA has published the documents according to which it is shown that Ajola Xoxa assisted the company "Meg Albania" with owner Vladimir Fezga and prepared the documents for the company to take over the waste business at the Sharra landfill at the time when her husband, Erion Veliaj, was the mayor of Tirana.

Through the issued authorizations, "Meg Albania" authorizes citizen Ines Dani and citizen Erald Ismaili, both citizens who appear in the SPAK investigative file for the Xoxa-Veliaj couple, both people from the law firm of the mayor's wife, to carry out all necessary actions at the Central Criminal Court.

What about Tirana's non-existent incinerator, Mr. Prime Minister?

CNA published another document showing how Ajola Xoxa made Erion Veliaj a partner with the structured criminal group of incinerators, Mirel Mërtiri and Klodian Zoton.

The document shows that Vladimir Fezga of "MEG Albania" authorized citizen Ines Dani and citizen Erald Ismaili to carry out all necessary actions at the Central Bank for the deposit and registration of the quota sale contract between the seller, the company "Meg Albania" and the buyer, the company "Integrated Energy BV SPV".

According to this document, which is in the file of the prosecutor who is dragging the file of the Tirana incinerator, Dritan Prençi, the people authorized by Vladimir Fezga for the sale of "Meg Albania" to "Integrated Energy BV SPV" are Ines Dani and Erald Ismaili, of Ajola Xoxa's law firm.

What about Tirana's non-existent incinerator, Mr. Prime Minister?

These documents are clear proof that the incinerator affair has tentacles beyond Mirel Mërtiri and Klodian Zoto, the tentacles reach all the way to Ajola Xoxa and Erion Veliaj.

The prosecutor who is sleeping on this file has not put a stop to the most corrupt file that has stolen the tax money of poor Albanians for an incinerator that does not exist.

This is the concern today, an affair that is not being solved and no charges have yet been filed against those responsible by the prosecutor who has chosen to sleep on the incinerator file. / CNA