The National Business Center (KKB) has suspended the activity of the flight company "Air Albania", since the latter has not declared the beneficial owners.
According to the announcement of the KKB in the extract of the company: "Based on Article 15/1 of Law No. 6/2022 "On Some Amendments and Additions to Law No. 112/2020, On the Register of Beneficial Owners", as amended, the CKB for the reporting entities, which commit the violations provided for in point 4 of this article, will change the status from "ACTIVE" in the status "SUSPENDED" until the payment of the fine and registration of the relevant data for the beneficial owners".
The company's status has been declared suspended since September 1.
The Law "On the Register of Beneficial Owners", provides that all reporting entities registered in the Republic of Albania have the obligation to register beneficial owners in the Register of Beneficial Owners. The initial deadline was 30.6.2021, but then it was postponed until June 30 of this year due to the problems encountered with its implementation.
According to the law, the initial non-registration of data for the beneficial owner within 40 (forty) days after the end of the defined period is punished with a fine in the amount of 600,000 (six hundred thousand) ALL;
Air Albania was created in 2018, as a national flight company, where the state, through "Albcontrol" has 10% of the shares, "MDN INVESTIMENT", created in 2018, has 41% of the quotas and "TÜRK HAVA YOLLARI AO” 49%.
The shareholders of "MDN INVESTMENT", with 50% each, are Najada Idrizi and Rejana Idrizi, according to the extract in the CKB, who gradually received the shares from Sinan Idrizi and Ron Yeffet during 2018.
According to the Civil Aviation Authority, at the end of 2021, "Air Albania" occupied about 12% of the flight market according to the number of passengers, ranking second, after Wizz Air, with 42%.
Meanwhile, only yesterday, according to data from the official website of Tirana International Airport, the company had 10 flights departing to Istanbul, Zurich, London, Pisa Bologna, Antalya, Athens, Milan, Rome.
Air Albania has only submitted the 2018 balance sheet to the CKB, when there was no activity yet, while the 2019 and 2020 balance sheets are not in the CKB either, whose deadline has expired. The 2021 balance sheet has until September 15./Monitor
