How Erion Veliaj sought to be exonerated from the incinerator affair

2024-05-27 11:04:00, Aktualitet CNA

How Erion Veliaj sought to be exonerated from the incinerator affair

Photomontage - The incinerator of Tirana and Erion Veliaj

A 130 million euro affair, a concession contract signed by former minister Lefter Koka, who is already behind bars, with punishment for the incinerator of Elbasan and Fier and in the process for the one of Tirana. But, unlike Elbasan and Fieri, Lefter Koka signed a concession contract for 30 years for the construction of the Tirana landfill and incinerator.

Photo montage - Mirel Mertiri and the 3 incinerators

There is a question:

Where do they differ?

For those who don't understand, Elbasan and Fieri are public investments spread over a period of almost 7 years. So that the government pays in installments, spread over 7 years. Despite the fact that it is called a concession, the only thing that the company has received a concession there after it has been built and after the end of the investment term, is simply and only electricity.

In Elbasan it does not work, the incinerator has worked very few hours, it is out of order, a burnt electrical panel, an oil boiler, a wrong investment, a very old device, while in Fier the investment is still left for several million euros, Tirana is different.

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Tirana is an investment spread over 30 years, with a concession, with a Public Private Partnership, where the government would pay a sum of money of 300 million euros and the investment company, "Integrated Energy BV SPV", would invest 128 million euros for the construction of the incinerator, which never happened. More than 100 million euros have been added from the transportation of the waste of the Durra Municipality.

The deadlines have all passed, the company started investing in 2017, until August last year when it was seized by SPAK. ( Read here )

In fact, they invested about 22 million euros according to the documents and the company claims about 32 million euros in almost 7 years, when in fact they should probably have completed the entire investment. ( Read here )

The document that shows that 22 million euros have been invested.

The Tirana incinerator company declares that it has invested 32 million euros

Postponing the deadline according to their wishes, seeing last year the sequestration that has not yet done a year, the incinerator was not built and the investment project was developed. The company had no money, Klodian Zoto and Mirel Mërtiri were hiding behind it, who actually had Erion Veliaj as their main partner and actual owner. ( Read here )

The latter, after realizing that there was an affair there and had to get out of the scheme, asked to build some scenarios.

Scripts by Erion Veliaj

First, he asked that everything be covered by leaving the case to Arben Ahmetaj. According to Veliaj, the entry of Arben Ahmetaj into prison, or his escape, his accusation, would close the case of the incinerators and everything would be forgotten, there would be no more responsible. But in fact it would not be Arben Ahmetaj "the cover", because in the procedure he had nothing to do with the Tirana incinerator.

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The main person responsible, the man who had started it, who had put it on the path of investment and signing a concession contract, is Erion Veliaj, who on behalf of IFC reactivated and brought another choice to the scheme , not the one he had proposed IFC, which was waste evacuation in Tirana and waste landfill at a cost of 37 euros/ton, while Erion Veliaj went to the incinerator then with 29 euros/ton, saying it was cheaper than 37 euros /tone that he had found from Lulzim Basha. ( Read here)

In fact, today in Tirana it does not cost landfill and waste disposal, waste removal costs 29 euros/ton, as another 20 million euros are paid for the removal of the capital's waste and about 10 million for their landfill where there should be incinerators , but which does not exist.

Erion Veliaj and his directors also sign an agreement with the concession company, taking the land there without determining a fee beforehand, without studying it, imposing a tax on the builders, which is actually paid by the citizens. ( Read here )

The mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj

The Albanian government, the Municipality of Tirana in the end pays annually for cleaning and landfill, because there is no incinerator there, about 30 million euros per year. Someone claims that the figure goes over 80 euros per ton, but according to experts, it is something more.

Erion Veliaj thought that by making the scenario Arben Ahmetaj himself would be saved. CNA reacted that the affair of the incinerators does not go only to Arben Ahmetaj, they started because the latter had no responsibility in the procedure, moreover, he had rejected the famous Tirana incinerator project with several letters, the man who said he agreed in principle, the man who said that he supported this project, it was Erion Veliaj. ( Read here )

The latter, through Lefter Kokës and in cooperation with Mirel Mërtiri and Klodian Zoto, led to the signing of a 300 million euro concession contract, plus 128 million euro investment of the company, but here the land money and income that have not been calculated in 30 years the company would have from other activities, a figure that, according to experts' calculations, is around 1 billion euros.

Garbage in Saw

This was the whole scheme and for this money, Erion Veliaj wanted to leave the bill to the former deputy prime minister of Edi Rama and everything would be covered and he would come clean.

In fact, there are many evidences and documents that show that Erion Veliaj is one of the main people, not only the actual owner, but the attention, the main beneficiary of that affair directly in the Municipality of Tirana.

Veliaj and the facts

First, the firm on the land issue. Secondly, it is a garden that Erion Veliaj inaugurates with Ciaffaglione, where Zoto and Mërtiri are unaware.

Photomontage - Mirel Mërtiri and Klodian Zoto, conversation on "WhatsApp"

Thirdly, Klodian Zoto in a recently issued e-mail opposes Taulant Tusha's letter with the idea that it will be cut after it will be discussed above. There is only one person higher than Taulant Tusha in the Municipality of Tirana, he is Erion Veliaj.

On the other hand, the Municipality of Tirana served the incinerator company with everything it needed and moreover destroyed the Project Implementation Unit, which failed to monitor, function and solve all the issues that they came out during the investment that was never completed in full.

Erion Veliaj was also the man who enjoyed the media support that the incinerator gave to televisions, funded portals that supported the government and the Municipality of Tirana. This was shown during the 2021 campaign where the concessionaire company paid millions of euros in advertising, when in fact it was a monopolistic company and it was completely unnecessary.

The propaganda of Erion Veliaj, precisely in these media, arose with the script to put the lid on the former deputy prime minister. So everything was resolved, he came out clean and the story continued.

In fact, the main person responsible for the malfunction, for the lack of investment and the beneficiary is Erion Veliaj and the Municipality of Tirana, because at least it was announced in 2020, about 4 years ago, with documents published in CNA, banned, where it was said that the owner of the Tirana incinerator was not a Dutch company as the mayor of Tirana had told us, but Klodian Zoto, Mirel Mërtiri, Giuseppe Ciaffaglione and other people were behind it.

The incinerator of Tirana

It was also announced that this company did not have the appropriate funds to make this investment and that these same people had built Elbasan and Fier, where in fact the first one had failed completely and now the Albanian government was paying tens of millions of euros for an incinerator that did not it would be built and not exist. Time has done justice to CNA and our staff.

Today we are faced with the fact that Erion Veliaj's property is being investigated in relation to the incinerator, in relation to the "5D" file, in relation to the demolition of the theater and many other files that he has "piled up" in SPAK.

But the essence of the matter is that time has revealed the truth, so the incinerators did not just go to one person as Erion Veliaj asked to tell us who wanted to put the lid on it.

Photomontage - Erion Veliaj

This man, who deceived and never admitted publicly that there was a summons for him in SPAK, but tried to tell us that "colleagues" had not called him . ( Read here )

He received the answer for "colleagues" from Altin Dumani, and now, apart from him, all his associates, including those from the media, who have been used to blackmail and threaten the prosecutors, to blackmail and threaten the media, which denounced the affair, are receiving the answer of incinerators, paid by Mirel Mërtiri, paid by Klodian Zoto and by the people around them. They are already on their way to make everyone accountable to the law.

The affair of the incinerators does not end again with Erion Veliaj, those who think that everything will be closed the day Erion Veliaj will be closed are wrong. The affair of the incinerators is a big file with many tentacles, it is a "candle" that will burn not only a mayor, or a former deputy prime minister or other ministers and officials, but everyone involved, because the documents have already been made " mountain".

Photomontage - SPAK and Erion Veliaj

Facts, evidence and bank transfers, payments, up to the media scandal and corruption, that put their hands in the money of poor Albanians , simply and only to protect the affair of the incinerators to fill their pockets and to steal and abuse, have been revealed. as they had political protection and as they claimed that having the media power together with Erion Veliaj would come out unscathed. ( Read here )

Now things have changed and Erion Veliaj has not escaped from this affair, he will not come out unscathed from this affair and every other person involved in cooperation with Mirel Mërtir and Klodian Zoto, the gang and the criminal group of incinerators, a gang of thieves that starts from some businessmen, goes to politics and ends up in the media./ CNA