SPAK seizes the luxury 5-star hotel of Redi Molla

2024-07-09 11:03:00, Aktualitet CNA

Redi Molla

The Special Court, at the request of SPAK, has seized some of the assets of Redi Molla, former director of UKT in Tirana, arrested a few months ago after the investigations of the "5D" file for the scandal with tenders.

SPAK announces that it has seized the commercial company "Restur" as well as 24% of the shares in the commercial company "Mediterranean Investment Group" sh.pk, with headquarters in Durrës i Redi Molla.

"The trading company "Restur" sh.pk, together with the immovable and movable assets owned by it, in the possession of the citizen of the Republic of Moldova, as assets whose value corresponds to the value of the product of the criminal offense and which can be confiscated based on in article 36/1 letter (ç) of the Criminal Code. Property 24% of the shares in the trading company "Mediterranean Investment Group" sh.pk, registered in the name of the trading company "Restur" sh.pk, with partners and RM administrator, as property whose value corresponds to the value of the product of the criminal offense and which can be confiscated based on article 36/1 letter (ç) of the Criminal Code", says the SPAK announcement.

How did the process for the construction of the luxury hotel in Durrës begin?

On October 6, 2021, the Minister of Environment and Tourism, Mirela Kumbaro, announced the granting of special status for the construction of a 5-star hotel in Durrës in favor of the "Mediterranean Investment Group" company.

It is about an investment of 15 million euros.

The company that benefited from tax exemption through special status was linked to the former director of the Tirana Waterworks, who is accused by SPAK of criminal offenses of corruption and concealment of wealth.

The "Mediterranean Investment Group" company was founded in September 2020 and one of the shareholders with 24% was Selim Molla, Redi Molla's late father, who inherited his son's shares in February 2024.

At the time when the company with his father as a shareholder received the special status of "Investor in a 5-star accommodation structure, special status", Molla was the administrator of "Tirana DC", a company with 100 percent shareholders the Municipality of Tirana, which ruled until 2023.

So, Redi Molla was able to benefit from this big project that costs millions of euros./ CNA