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Journalist: Balluku has taken Vlora Airport hostage, Albania may lose 700 million euros in arbitration

2026-09-21 22:39:52Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Journalist: Balluku has taken Vlora Airport hostage, Albania may lose 700
Balluku, Rama and Pacolli

Vlora Airport was presented as a strategic project, as a promise for development, tourism and investment.

But today, his story has another word in the middle: arbitration. And the question is not only who is right in the conflict between the parties but when the contract was signed, who thought about the risk that could remain for the state?

Journalist Klodian Tomorri shared details of the ongoing conflict over this airport on "Top Story." According to him, the airport has been taken hostage by former Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku and Albania could lose the arbitration case.

"It's about quotas. Pacolli claims to have 98% of the quotas, the company that has the least shares of Adem, says it has three contracts. Pacolli denies the contract, saying they took his signature fraudulently and that was the essence of the whole clash. The government's intervention has opened the arbitration.

Since the government has offered the solution of the concession, the entry into force required 30 working days, somewhere on September 17. Both companies turned to Arbitration, to impose a security measure on the government's decision. The arbitration has told the government that it cannot take the airport at this point. If you look at the preliminary arbitration decision, it seems that the Government is failing to follow the procedures meticulously, so that tomorrow citizens do not face a bitter experience like the one with Beketi, where Albanians paid 130 million. which was 3 years ago and continues to increase because there are interests, in this case the state is much higher than that, because in the end Mr. Beketi did not have any investment in Albania, but here we have 90 million euros of investment and 1 concession contract 35 years long, the business plan is 720 million for 35 years. Potentially up to 700 million could be requested.

The government should be strict with the procedures. The contract has some provisions that you have to give 1 notice, you have to try to reconcile. The Albanian side is the Ministry of Infrastructure.

The state representative says we will take it, they can ask for compensation. So, a behavior.

The Albanian government maintains that these two shareholders can no longer operate the airport, that the conflict they have with each other is very deep and it is unlikely that they will complete the airport, they are holding a strategic investment hostage.

How did the Government choose these? At the table, Begjet Pacolli said it. The Government says that those I chose cannot do it now. Pacolli said that they told me once that he would get 60% and then 40%. Mrs. Balluku. The airport has been taken hostage, Edi Rama inaugurated it in 2025, while we are in this situation", the journalist said.


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