The administrators of the incinerator of Tirana are announced for international search

2024-08-11 16:40:00, Aktualitet CNA

The administrators of the incinerator of Tirana are announced for international

Mirel Mertiri and the incinerator of Tirana

The incinerators are the theft of the century, a mega-affair that has swallowed hundreds of millions of euros from the pockets of poor Albanians, from Elbasan, to Fier and ends in Tirana.

Fier's incinerator is not finished, Elbasan's is an oil boiler that needs millions of euros to operate, and Tirana's does not exist, it is a phantom incinerator.

For this ghost incinerator of Tirana, investigations continue and senior officials have gone behind bars and arrest warrants have been issued for dozens of other people, and the brains of the incinerators, as SPAK calls them, Mirel Mërtiri and his associate Klodian Zoto, have been announced as international wanted .

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But recently, CNA has learned that in addition to Mirel Mërtir and Klodian Zoto, the administrators of the Tirana incinerator, the people who covered the shell company in the Netherlands, have also been announced in international search.

It is learned that Michael Peter Druijts and Marc Richard Lappat have been announced as wanted internationally. These citizens are part of the third group of persons declared wanted a few weeks ago, on July 16, where SPAK gave details of the investigations and arrest warrants that were issued for 8 persons.

"The Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime with decision no. 69, dated 12.07.2024, has assigned the security measure "arrest in prison" to eight citizens with the initials DY, GC, DT, ML, MD, ID, EH and R.N", SPAK announces.

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CNA has been able to ensure from official sources that from July 16, when SPAK issued the official announcement regarding the arrest warrants for the Tirana incinerator, which included Michael Peter Druijts and Marc Richard Lappat recently after the court decisions and the request of SPAK Interopoli has announced the international search for the latter two.

Now, not only Mirel Mërtiri and Klodian Zoto and dozens of their associates or officials who are behind bars, but also the main administrators, the people who covered all the actions for the Tirana incinerator, are now wanted internationally and are wanted by Albanian justice and SPAK for the corrupt affair of the incinerators and structured criminal group.

Klodian Zoto and Mirel Mertiri

SPAK has called the people of the Tirana incinerator a structured criminal group.

According to the SPAK, there were other criminal facts evidenced during the implementation period of the concession contract, for which the notification of criminal offenses was recorded in the criminal register, "Cleaning of the proceeds of criminal offense or criminal activity", carried out in special cooperation in the form of structured criminal group, "Structured criminal group" and "Commitment of criminal offenses by criminal organization and structured criminal group".

The Special Prosecutor's Office informs that they have been cleaned as proceeds of the criminal offense in the amount of approximately 20,000,000 (twenty million) euros, specifically divided into the sums of: 1,214,867,060 (one billion two hundred and fourteen million, eight hundred and sixty seven thousand and sixty) lek, 9,456,093 (nine million four hundred and fifty six thousand and ninety three) euros.

The participants of this structured criminal group have benefited from the above monetary values, as products of the criminal offense, by taking the monetary values ??from the bank account of the concessionaire company "Integrated Energy BV SPV" sh.pk, thanks to fraud through the creation of fictitious invoices , thanks to fictitious companies created inside and outside the country, as well as through the withdrawal of monetary values ??in cash.

Investigations continue for other persons involved in this corrupt affair./ CNA