The appeal of GJKKO rejected the request of Valter Begaj for the removal of the sequestration of the company "DAAM" shpk.
The decision was taken this Wednesday by the black squads, while the first instance was expected to consider another request of Begaj, that of softening the security measure, but the session was postponed to another date, due to the absence of the prosecutor.
In GJKKO, Begaj requested a change in the measure, from "arrest in prison", to a lighter measure of security.
A few days ago, the trial body in the first instance released from the cell Ervis Lam, the associate of Begaj, who was placed in handcuffs together with Evis Berberi, the former director of ARRSH in March of this year.
Lam was placed under "house arrest", while Beberi and Begaj continue to remain in the cell, as persons suspected of having committed the crime of corruption and money laundering.
Evis Berberi was often rumored for major corrupt abuses at the head of the Albanian Road Authority, but his end came from the corrupt partnership with his businessman friend, Valter Begaj.
While Valter Begaj continued his work in business and Evis Berberi was catapulted into public duties, initially as an advisor to the Minister of Infrastructure and Energy, Belinda Balluku, business soon returned to power.
The partnership that continued to grow during the time that Evis Berberi was appointed head of the Albanian Road Authority, one of the most important institutions in the country, also because of the portfolio he manages. A task in which he also signed 3 tenders, where the company 'Net Group' of his friend, Valter Begaj, was part of the union of economic operators that turned out to be winners.
But how did Evis Berberi connect with Valter Begajn and which company served further to commit corruption and launder money?
A prestigious company in the hands of the two, who had sold and resold it several times, to hide the money trail.
"From the period September 2018-January 2019, Evis Berberi was the owner of the company 'DAAM', where he was the sole shareholder with 100% of the capital. Initially, this company was registered under the name 'B-VAAL ENGI-10' and then its name was changed to 'DAAM' shpk. Evis Berberi bought this company with the initial name for the value of 100 thousand ALL from its founder Valter Begaj, in September 2018. Before this company changed its name to 'DAAM' shpk", - the investigation file states.
THE "GAME" WITH THE SALE OF THE COMPANY
But this was not the first and only stunt that the high state official Evis Berberi and the businessman Valter Begaj performed with the aforementioned company. The company which within a short time from a sale at ridiculous values, was resold at a record amount. But not only that, but absurdly, after this company was bought by citizen Brunilda Buli, the latter sold the shares again to businessman Valter Begaj. But this time, at half the price he had bought it from Evis Berberi.
"On January 31, 2019, Evis Berberi sold the company to Brunilda Buli in the amount of 500 thousand euros. Meanwhile, on December 23, 2021, Brunilda Buli sold this same company to businessman Valter Begaj, in the amount of 200 million new alleks," the file states. But these would not be the only juggling with this company by Evis Berberi and his old friend, businessman Valter Begaj. After this time, another citizen enters the game, the administrator of 'DAAM' shpk, Ervis Lami, also detained by SPAK, on charges of 'Corruption' and 'Money Laundering', but who is already under 'house arrest'.
"On February 21, 2022, Valter Begaj sold the company in favor of Ervis Lam in the amount of 200 million new ALL. But on March 29, 2022, Ervis Lami sold the company to Valter Begaj for the sum of zero lek", - the file states.
But, in order to understand how this scheme worked, SPAK had to seize the mobile phones of the already arrested director of ARRSH, Evis Berberi, investigations which started in September 2023, after the data that were published in the media.
An officer of the National Bureau of Investigation then set the Prosecution in motion. But what sank the director of ARRSH was the dismantling of the mobile phone "Samsung, S 23 Ultra", in the possession of Ervis Lam. That's where the communications between him, Evis Berber, Valter Begaj and Brunilda Bulit were discovered.
Conversations which did not leave any guesses according to SPAK, that Evis Berberi was the de facto owner of the company 'DAAM' and controlled it indirectly, while as a senior official in the administration he took money to his accounts from the taxes of Albanian citizens.