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Abuses with tenders at the Agricultural University of Tirana, SPAK takes 29 people to court (NAMES and CHARGES)

2025-07-22 16:57:55Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Abuses with tenders at the Agricultural University of Tirana, SPAK takes 29
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SPAK has sent 29 people for trial, including managers and employees of the Agricultural University of Tirana, as well as representatives of private companies, accused of violations in 9 public tenders during 2022, with a total value of 90 million lek.

UBT officials, including former vice-rectors Romina Koto and Ilir Kapaj, as well as Administrator Edmond Tërthorja, have collaborated to devise fictitious projects, including in this process the companies that would be declared winners.

The documents and technical specifications for the tenders were prepared in collaboration with the winning companies, which is contrary to the law.

The winning companies – “Krijon” sh.pk, “Zero Group” sh.pk and “Malvina Visoka PF” – submitted falsified bids, inflating prices and simulating fictitious competition.

In some cases, the goods that were later tendered had previously been purchased by the university, making the procurement procedures all formal, i.e. only to "justify" the purchase.

SPAK announcement:

SPAK sends 29 defendants to trial for violations with the Agricultural University of Tirana tenders

The Special Prosecution Office against Corruption and Organized Crime filed today (22.07.2025) the request for trial of criminal proceedings no. 13/1 of 2022 (separate from criminal proceedings no. 13 of 2022), indicting 27 persons, officials of the Agricultural University of Tirana (UBT) and two persons, representatives of the economic operator "Krijon" sh.pk.

Officials of the Agricultural University of Tirana have been charged with the criminal offense of "Violation of equality of participants in tenders or public auctions", in collaboration, provided for by articles 258 and 25 of the Criminal Code.

While the two representatives of the economic operator "Krijon" sh.pk, are accused of committing the criminal offense "Forgery of documents", committed in collaboration, more than once, provided for by Article 186/2 of the Criminal Code.

Within the framework of this criminal proceeding, 9 (nine) procurement procedures conducted in 2022 were investigated, with a limit fund value of 90,000,000 (ninety million) lek.

Proactive investigations have been conducted using special methods, which include wiretapping of UBT officials' telephone conversations, observations and administration of procurement procedure documentation with the contracting authority, UBT.

During the investigation, legal violations were identified by the responsible persons of the academic staff at UBT, the defendants: Romina Koto and Ilir Kapaj in the position of deputy/rector, Bejo Bizhga, in the position of Head of the Department of Preclinical Modules, which consist of designing projects and securing funds at the National Agency for Scientific Research and Innovation (AKKSHI), as well as illegal actions carried out in collaboration with the head of the contracting authority, the defendant Edmond Tërthorja, in the position of Administrator of UBT.

These persons have prepared fictitious project data, with specifications prepared by the economic operators competing and winning in these procurement procedures. After securing funds from AKKSHI, the contracting authority's illegal actions have continued, in the phase of preparing and carrying out the procurement procedures. The commission that calculated the limit fund and prepared the technical specifications has continuously and illegally collaborated with the procurement unit and the bid evaluation commission.

During the investigation, legal violations were identified by the members of the procurement unit and the bid evaluation committee by the defendants: Amarildo Lleshi, Mehmet Qoshja, Altin Murto, Enkeleida Sallaku, Klara Jahollari, Agim Sefa, Arjan Buliqi, Serafin Skënderi, Ilir Kusi, Dritan Laçi, Azem Parllaku, Artur Koleci, Radion Dhromi, Blenard Spaho, Tedi Proda, Erjola Kopali, Klea Lekoçaj, Etleva Shore, Mimoza Shehu, Elvira Shtogu, Tone Vukaj, in collaboration with the head of the contracting authority, the defendant, Edmond Tërthorja, who created conditions and favored the announcement of the winners of the economic operators "Krijon"sh.pk, "Zero Group" sh.pk, "Malvina Visoka PF".

During the investigation, it emerged that the data for the preparation of the limit fund, technical specifications, terms of reference, as well as the drafting of standard tender documents, were prepared by the responsible officials of the contracting authority, in cooperation with the winning economic operators "Krijon"sh.pk, "Zero Group"sh.pk, and "Malvina Visoka PF".

In all of the above procurement procedures, the winning economic operators, “Krijon”sh.pk, “Zero Group”sh.pk, and “Malvina Visoka PF”, have provided falsified economic offers, on behalf of other commercial companies, which have been used by the contracting authority and have influenced the inflating of the limit fund, without conducting any market research.

Cases of conducting a procurement procedure with a predetermined economic operator as the winner, for equipment with other goods, made available to the contracting authority several months before the announcement of the procurement procedures, have been identified (procurement procedures conducted after the previous administration of these equipment, for which fictitious procurement procedures were subsequently conducted and their delivery was taken).

The Special Prosecution Office against Corruption and Organized Crime is conducting investigations within the framework of criminal proceedings no. 13 of 2022, to identify any other criminal facts, the responsibility of any other person who acted with the documentation of these procurement procedures, as well as other criminal facts within the framework of this criminal proceedings.


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