Government favors for Armand Lilo, friend of Fatmir Xhafajt

2024-10-02 22:53:07, Denoncim CNA

Government favors for Armand Lilo, friend of Fatmir Xhafajt

Photomontage - Businessman Armand Lilo

The Plug in Syri TV show uncovers new details from the government's dealings with public lands to favor businessman Armand Lilo. Not only Erion Veliaj and Fatmir Xhafaj, but also Prime Minister Edi Rama himself is involved in this scandal. In 2022, Edi Rama denounced 7 unauthorized floors of Armand Lilo's Eye Of Tirana tower, which according to him had not been seen by anyone. But Plug revealed that Edi Rama himself signed the Eye of Tirana construction permit in 2017, including the land where the Chamber of Commerce is located, which was state property and Armand Lilo did not have development rights for this property. Even Mirela Kumbaro or Belinda Balluku have done favors for Armand Lilos' companies, giving them permission for photovoltaic parks or special status for strategic investments.

A week after the affair with the public property of the former mechanical plant was broadcast, where the duo Xhafaj-Veliaj gave thousands of square meters of land to Armand Lilos, in the second episode of the Plug show, the affair between the mayor and the socialist deputy in favor of the Arlis company was broadcast. Construction.

In this episode, new data were published, showing that not only ERion Veliaj and Fatmir Xhafaj, but also Prime Minister Edi Rama and cabinet ministers were involved in favors to Armand Lilos.

In October 2022, when Prime Minister Edi Rama approved the special VKM and the law, which legalized the unauthorized floors of the Towers of Tirana, he built his propaganda on the 7 floors of "Eyes of Tirana" by Armand Lilos.

The Prime Minister tried to convince the citizens that the unauthorized floors in Skënderbey Square had not been seen by any of his officials and that he was acting with an iron hand against this abuse. Plug has gone beyond the prime minister's propaganda. The secured documents raise strong suspicions about a pure corruption and money laundering affair, not far from Edi Rama's eyes, but legalized with his signature. These unauthorized floors further deepen the scandal.

On December 12, 2017, Prime Minister Edi Rama gave the construction permit for the building in question, for the construction of the building that starts with 5 and rises up to 24 floors. The scandal lies precisely in the permit, since one of the plots included in this permit was state property, specifically the building of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Prime Minister Edi Rama

On this state property, Prime Minister Edi Rama signs the construction of the 12-story building, for which until that time the private sector had no development rights. So, Edi Rama signed the construction permit for the Armand Lilos tower, on a state property, while the Municipality of Tirana transferred ownership of this property in favor of Armand Lilos only six years later, in May 2023.

Prime Minister Edi Rama declares that he has not bowed his back to the abusive builders, but sitting on the chair, within a year he cleared the image of Armand Lilo and even giving him other permits for towers. Such are the ones for Armand Lilos' company Unico Construction, which received a construction permit for a 25-story tower from the Paris Municipality. Building Construction Invest is also the company bought by Armand Lilo, which has received a construction permit for the dam and lake towers.

But the government's favors towards Armand Lilos do not stop there. Minister Mirela Kumbaro and Prime Minister Edi Rama himself would think about the final cleaning of the image of Armand Lilos, who, a year after describing him as an abusive builder who had blinded the judge, would honor him with the special status of a strategic investor.

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The Klais company, originally founded by Altin Cela, brother-in-law of Armand Lilos, in October 2023, under the signature of Edi Rama, receives a construction permit for the object, Green Cost Resort 2, Hotel with 1-2-3-4 and 5 floors in the Municipality Himara and then for this resort, the government gave it a special status, where according to the decision, Armand Lilo will not pay profit tax, property taxes, infrastructure impact tax, and above all, I will only pay 6% VAT for 10 years. .

Not only in the construction sector, Armand Lilo's companies have also had the generosity of Minister Belinda Balluku in the energy sector. Armand Lilos' companies, such as Premium Energy, Sunray Energy, Arsol Energy, Sharp Energy, etc., have applied or already received construction permits for photovoltaic parks, mainly in the coastal area of ??Fier.

After the renaissance in the socialist government, Armand Lilo bought another 6 million euros of shares in one of the banks of the second level, while, in August of this year, his company Armaar Grup, by decision of the Municipal Council, became the owner of the Football Club of Pogradec. The show also brought up the cases when Armand Lilo threw the problems more justice, due to his strong ties with Fatmir Xhafaj and "Rilindje".