Exclusive - The connections are revealed / Co-owner of the rent-free building of Ajola Xoxa, tenders in the Municipality of Tirana

2024-11-20 10:15:00, Denoncim CNA

Exclusive - The connections are revealed / Co-owner of the rent-free building of

Photo montage - Ajola Xoxa

A new investigation is proceeding very quickly and very vigorously, starting from some documents and materials that CNA had published before.

Everything starts with the activity of Ajola Xoxa , a lawyer who studied in France, who then ended up as an art curator. ( Read here )

Erion Veliaj and Ajola Xoxa

CNA has discovered with documents and facts how Ajola Xoxa is connected to the Tirana incinerator through her contemporary artist, Sislej Xhafa, whom she promotes at "Harabeli".

Sislej Xhafa has made a work called "Bee", which was financed by Tirana's incinerator company, "Integrated Energy BV SPV", and was installed as a work of art in Sharra's landfill.

We have also reported on "NAAN Gallery", a company founded by Dritan Zeneli and today it is owned by "HARABEL", according to the statute, all the income that this company realizes from the sale of works of art goes to the partner. HARABEL” to use as desired.

This company operates in the center of Tirana, in Bllok, and we have emphasized that this is a rent-free facility used by Ajola Xoxa and is given free of charge for the art curated by the wife of the mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj. ( Read here )

Rent-free building where "NAAN" Gallery is located

Who owns the building that Ajola Xoxa keeps rent-free

CNA deepened its investigation by asking who were the real owners of this building, who were these people or a single person, that a building which could generate income up to 25 thousand euros per month, according to the data issued by the real estate agencies, to give the object to Ajola Xoxa without rent, for what reason. ( Read here )

Charity to Ajola? What is the interest? What do the citizens or the company benefit from?

That's Xoxa

This last part, what the people who own this object benefit from giving their property rent-free to Ajola, made us go to the property registration office and ensure who the owner is.

So, who are the people who have given their property to Ajola Xoxa for almost 4 years, or more precisely, have forgiven her 25,000 euros per month.

According to the data provided by the State Cadastre Agency, or Hipoteka, the owners are citizens Arben Xhabafti with 4/16, Gentian Sula with 4/16, Besiana Antoni (Gentian Sula's partner) with 4/16, Miranda Leka with 2/ 16, Xhenis Angjeli with 1/16 and Era Xhabafti again with 1/16.

Data from the State Cadastre Agency

The first 3 people have the same taxable share in the property, while the other 3 have less.

These owners are the people who gave him a two-story building, in the middle of the Block, with a fairly large area, land with a total area of ??1100 square meters, of which the building is 269 square meters.

So, these people, with this property in the middle of Tirana, do not rent it, they do not use it, but they give it to Ajola Xoxa, the wife of the mayor Veliaj, to develop her passionate activities related to art curation.

But do any of these people have a conflict of interest? Why did they give this property to Ajola? What do they gain?

Ajola Xoxa and Erion Veliaj

Co-owner of the building without rent, tenders from the Municipality of Tirana

First, we verified Gentian Sula and his wife who own half of the property, is not an unknown character. Gentian Sula appears to us to be the beneficiary of money and public funds, given by the Municipality of Tirana and its dependent institutions.

We have found a fictitious tender, possibly manipulated to some extent, which took place in the Waterworks of Tirana worth 50 million lek, where there was neither direct procurement nor open tender procurement , but someone handed over an envelope, the other opened it, then the competing company was notified to go with a lower price.

Municipality of Tirana

The tender is red flagged and has no competitors.

This is nothing.

The owner with 8/16, of 1100 square meters, with a building of about 270 square meters, is also the beneficiary of about 720 million old lek from the Municipality of Tirana.

In October 2022, the Municipality of Tirana has invented a tender formula that is networking, unheard of before.

So, Erion Veliaj had apparently found a company to teach all the staff, to perform like the "5D" company, like the "5D" guys who are behind bars.

Now he has brought some German company, maybe some invention of his own. As for why this German company is needed when 720 million ALL were paid with VAT for the performance of the municipality's structure, Erion Veliaj must answer this elsewhere.

Tender 720 million ALL

There are two cases, a subordinate institution that is Ujjejellesi sh.a. and the Municipality of Tirana directly.

Also, CNA has been able to provide data that another company of the citizen Gentian Sula, "Intersig Vienna Insurance", is the beneficiary of at least 5 cases for procurements or tenders made by the Municipality of Tirana in relation to the insurances that this institution needs .

Even in these cases, as in the case above, the 5 tenders are red flagged.

Tender won by "Intersig Vienna Insurance" company

So the link is to be found and here is the link. Ajola gets a property rent-free from Gentian Sula, his wife and several other co-owners, and this property that serves Ajola for her passions with art has a fairly high rental value.

On the other hand, the rent is not paid, but one of the co-owners of that property receives tenders worth hundreds of millions of lek from Ajola's husband in the Municipality of Tirana, Erion Veliaj.

Ajola Xoxa and Erion Veliaj

As we pointed out above, the tender is developed with photos for 720 million lek with VAT for performance, an invention unheard of before, there are other tenders won, which tell us exactly, without any doubt, that one of the co-owners of the object receives the rent from the profits that come to it through the receipt of money and public funds from Erion Veliaj.

These are facts with documents, which clearly show the activity of Erion Veliaj, his wife, the connection with businesses, the beneficiaries of public funds, which come out of the pockets of Albanians and go to the service of Ajola Xoxa, where it is understood that the mediator is the mayor Erion Veliaj./ CNA