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Shehaj: Some companies in Albania are sanctioned for terrorist financing

2026-03-17 20:25:00, Aktualitet CNA

Shehaj: Some companies in Albania are sanctioned for terrorist financing

Economic expert Brisida Shehaj expressed her criticism today regarding several companies operating in our country, which she said are strange and whose owners are unknown.

Invited to "Syri TV", Shehaj stated that some of them are sanctioned companies, as they are financed by their ties to terrorism.

"Many affairs are connected to strange companies. They are companies whose owners are unknown. For example, at the Refinery once, an investigation by Plugu, it turned out that the company was connected and financed by Gunvor, a company with Russian connections sanctioned by the Treasury Department in the United States of America.

Then to the incinerator company, which was also connected to some of those who were from ARMO, these shareholders who were behind, so those who are now on paper who say we are, but we are not, and meanwhile it was, as far as I remember, Alberto Preseci, Franco Tosi Meccanica, it was a company that had very large contracts and cooperation with the Iranian state energy company. I don't remember the name of the state company they have well now, but it was and articles and contracts that they had were published.

In this specific case, the situation is even more serious. Beyond the ship affair, which is still being investigated by SPAK.

It was found that in addition to the oil purchase procedure, where the importer was KESH, the company that brought it to Albania was a Mad Energy company, the oil, although it came from Malta, was declared as Algerian oil, from the data it was seen that this company was linked to another Turkish company, ASB Group. A company convicted of federal crimes in America. The convicted owner of this company was convicted of financing terrorism that emerged during the Iran Leaks investigations. But in 2020, when we also had the pandemic and in the meantime it was under embargo, - so the problems had begun and these were the sanctions for Iran, - this company, through a contract, an open company, yes in Albania, sold about 36 million dollars of Iranian oil.

So, companies under sanctions, sanctioned companies, the owner of this convicted of financing terrorism.

Now it is the port of Durres, for example, that the company withdrew, meanwhile it was quite clear from the denunciation made by Arben Ahmetaj, but also from a simple research that anyone could do, Porto Romano, that they were companies that were connected to Russian companies. Or like the problem with the Roskovec TEC, that we have Albanian officials who deceived the deputies in the Assembly, in the committee on natural resources, who said yes, that TEC will be with the gas coming from TAP. Meanwhile it was a deception, because it is now official and it is confirmed that they would use TAP as a route, but the gas would not be from Azerbaijan and it was not known what kind of gas it would be. Whether it was Russian, whether it was not Russian, I do not know. This is what our government officials who continue to do should tell us.

So, this story of resolutions has no value to me, because you already have their embassy and you have removed it.

So, if we collect 36 million in 2020 and 11 in 2024, in just one transaction you have somewhere around 50 million dollars, which is the financing that you do.
Our structures, nor the intelligence service, but today as we speak, neither SPAK nor Serious Crimes, which used to have a lot of focus, so to speak. If today our partners are certainly focusing on corruption. I am still convinced that even in these moments such as the attack on Belinda Balluku or the attack on AKSH, it is done for greater purposes than the corruption of the country. Corruption must be condemned by us, the Albanians, SPAK must condemn it, politics must condemn it. So we must be as a people standing up to fight corruption, as long as it is a service, a stolen money, a service that we do not receive and we are depopulated. "While the partners who have managed to intervene or cooperate, such as with the Sky Encros wiretapping files, or today's investigations at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy or the ARA, are certainly doing so because other businesses beyond, beyond corruption, are being financed or laundered from this money," said Shehaj. /CNA

 





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