SPAK revealed the scheme/ How the directors of Veliaj benefited from tenders and hundreds of millions

2024-12-26 16:26:00, Aktualitet CNA

SPAK revealed the scheme/ How the directors of Veliaj benefited from tenders and

SPAK has clarified the scheme as the directors of Veliaj have benefited from 12 tenders with a total monetary amount of 192,779,188 new ALL.

First, the conducted investigations have proven the fact that in the period 2016-2020, during the time when the defendant, Redi Molla, exercised the function of the General Director of the company "Ujjesjellës Kanalizime Tirana" sh.a, the trading company "Igor Elektrik" sh. .pk the same as "VAS Konstruksion" sh.pk the same as "5D Konstruksion" sh.pk, participated and was declared the winner in violation of public procurement rules in 7 (seven) procurement procedures, carried out by the contracting authority "Ujjesjellës Kanalizime Tirana" sh.a.

In these procurement procedures, the defendant Redi Molla had the capacity of the holder of the contracting authority, he ordered the performance of the procurement, the composition of the Procurement Unit, the composition of the Bid Evaluation Commission (appointing in four cases as a member of this commission the defendant Marigle Qato, who is the other indirect partner of the company), signed the business contracts, performed any other action related to the capacity of the contracting authority holder, with the trading company in his possession.

Secondly, the fact has been proven that in the period 2016-2018, during the time when the defendant Mariglen Qato exercised the function of the Director of the Support Department in the company "Ujësjellës Kanalizime Tirana" sh.a., the above commercial entity participated and won in violation of public procurement rules in 4 (four) of the procurement procedures mentioned above. In these procurement procedures, the defendant Mariglen Qato had the capacity of a member of the Bid Evaluation Commission and took part in making the decision to announce the winner of the procurement procedure, for the commercial company indirectly owned by him.

Thirdly, from the investigative actions carried out, the fact has been proven that the commercial company "VAS Konstruksion" sh.pk, the same as "5D Konstruksion" sh.pk, participated and was declared the winner in violation of the public procurement rules, in 3 ( three) procurement procedures organized by the contracting authority, Tirana Municipality, as well as in 2 (two) other procurement procedures organized by the contracting authorities "Tirana Parking" sh.a and "Tirana Sports Club" s.a.

The investigations carried out have proven the fact that the defendant Taulant Tusha in the capacity of the General Director of the Public Works Planning Directorate and the member of the Bid Evaluation Commission, as well as the defendants Enton Punavija, Julian Zanaj and Albanon Janku in the capacity of member of the Bid Evaluation Commission, in the three procurement procedures organized by the Municipality of Tirana, have favored and created the company "5D Konstruksion" sh.pk unfair advantages and privileges in relation to other economic operators who participated in the procurement procedures, declaring it the winner of the procurement procedure in an irregular manner and in violation of public procurement rules.

Fourthly, from the investigative actions carried out, from the analysis of the financial investigation and the expert report carried out by the accounting expert, the fact has been proven that in 12 (twelve) procurement procedures that have benefited from the company "5D Konstruksion" sh.pk in violation of the law and the rules of public procurement, this commercial company has realized monetary benefits in total in the amount of ALL 192,779,188.

Based on Article 36/1, letter (b) of the Criminal Code, the above monetary amount is the product of the criminal offenses provided for by Articles 258 and 259 of the Criminal Code, as it constitutes "wealth" that flows and is acquired indirectly from committing criminal offences, benefiting the commercial company "5D Konstruksion" sh.pk in an irregular manner from public contracts, as well as extracting monetary profits from implementation of these public contracts.

The above monetary amounts that constitute the product of the criminal offense were partially withdrawn from the banking system using the fictitious invoice payment scheme and were then deposited again in the "cash" state in the company's coffers. Then these sums were given to the de facto owners of the commercial company, were used to finance the purchase of assets from them, or for other activities of the company. Whereas, the rest of the monetary amounts that constitute the proceeds of the criminal offense were used to finance the commercial activity of the company "5D Konstruksion" sh.pk

Fifth, during the preliminary investigations, a complete financial and property investigation was carried out for the activity of the company "5D Konstruksion" sh.pk, for the assets owned by the persons under investigation and their relatives, for the circulation of the monetary amounts benefited from realization of public contracts obtained in violation of the law and rules of public procurement. / CNA