The battle for the last bone of the incinerator breaks out

2023-10-19 09:42:00, Aktualitet CNA

Two days ago, the Supreme State Audit Office published an audit report on the Seized Assets Administration Agency. The report found a number of violations in the agency and therefore recommended the immediate dismissal of its head Adrian Koni.

Kapitali.al published the audit report, where the most serious finding was the lack of 24 vehicles seized from crime. But the report's findings are disputed by the agency.

Sources within it told Kapitali.al that there is no possibility, not even a theoretical one, to lose the funds after they have been taken over by the Seized Assets Agency.

According to them, the vehicles referred to in the KLSH report are those seized but not found by law enforcement agencies, as well as another category that are kept blocked at police points and that have not yet been taken over by AAPS.

In fact, the KLSH audit culminates a sudden but extensive attack campaign against the Seized Assets Agency. Previously, this institution was almost completely unknown to the general public and no longer made news.

But everything changed after the agency was entrusted with the administration of Tirana's incinerator two and a half months ago. But are these two things connected or is it all a coincidence?

A few weeks ago, the Seized Assets Administration Agency made some important moves in the structure of the Tirana incinerator company.

Kapitali.al has learned that within a few days, the state administrator dismissed the director of the construction site, the manager of the landfill and some guards, who formed the control chain of the waste that was deposited at the construction site.

The first, Ferdinand Tarazhi, was appointed to the position a few months before the seizure of the incinerator by Mirel Mërtiri and was considered his confidant. Previously, Mr. Tarazhi held the position of director of monitoring in the Ministry of Order and currently there is an open investigation in SPAK for tenders for the construction of police stations. The manager of the landfill was also considered a private management man of the company.

Immediately after their dismissal, pressure was also put on the Seized Assets Agency to bring the dismissed people back to work. SPAK is aware of the whole incident. A confidential source in the Special Prosecutor's Office told Kapitali.al that the people who exerted pressure have also been identified.

The dismissals at the incinerator company are related to suspicions of a major scandal, which is already being investigated by SPAK. What is related to the figures of soils and inerts deposited in the landfill.

As soon as the incinerator was placed under state administration, a dramatic drop in receipts from the soil and inerts deposited by the builders was noted.

Part of this decline is related to the fact that the state administration cannot bribe municipal police or environmental inspectors to guard builders' pits and force them to grudgingly go to landfills as the company used to do. private.

But beyond this cause there is another doubt. The fact that a large part of the inerts were not registered, but were paid in cash, thus creating a financial channel that fed the same people who were behind the incinerator.

The fight to get hold of the Seized Assets Agency is actually a fight to get hold of the management of the incinerator, or rather the flow of income that comes from private lands and inerts. Apparently, this is also the reason why Adrian Koni's head is being sought.

But this is not the only battle. Already within Integrated Energy, a war of sorts has erupted between Mirel Mertir's clan and Renardo Nallban's as to who will hold the reins of the landfill.

In short a war on many fronts for the last bone of the incinerator. Now it remains to be seen who will win. Private clans or the state? / Kapitali.al