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SCANDAL\ Gjoka company "forgot" the fire protection system in the Skarfica tunnel, new tender 800 thousand euros

2025-10-02 22:17:19Investigim SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
SCANDAL Gjoka company "forgot" the fire protection system in the
The Scarfica Tunnel

Public works scandals are never-ending in Albania, where works are built, repaired after inauguration, or redone from scratch. Such is the construction of the Skarfica tunnel, part of the new Kardhiq-Delvinë road, a road started years ago and inaugurated in 2022, after a long ordeal of tenders and complaints.

The tender for lot 7 was the most controversial, and the case even went to the Special Prosecutor's Office, where former Roads Director Sonila Qato was charged with abuse of office. She is suspected of favoring a company to the detriment of the "Gjoka" firm, but after complaints, the firm that builds tunnels in Albania won the competition and the value of about 20 million euros.

SCANDAL Gjoka company "forgot" the fire protection system in the
Facsimile: New tender opened by ARRSH for the installation of the fire protection system in the Kardhiq – Delvinë tunnel

Three years after the inauguration of the tunnel and the entire road, the first problems have begun. Or rather, the Albanian Road Authority has found very obvious shortcomings. One of them was the lack of a fire protection system in the Kardhiq - Delvinë tunnel. A scandal if you consider that that tunnel does not have such a system.

According to documents available to VoxNews, the ARRSH has opened a tender with the object of "MZSH center and fire protection installations in the Kardhiq-Delvinë tunnel". The procedure's limit fund is 800 thousand euros, as it concerns a fire protection station.

But, naturally, after this tender, several questions arise; Wasn't the tunnel designed to have a fire protection system? If so, why was it done? If not, who is responsible. Of course, everyone is responsible, current or former officials of the ARA who allowed something like this to happen.

SCANDAL Gjoka company "forgot" the fire protection system in the
Facsimile: The tender for the construction of the tunnel was won by the Gjoka company in collaboration with two other firms

State institutions should conduct a full analysis of this situation. If the matter went to SPAK at that time, were there shortcomings in carrying out such an act? Of course, yes, since the state itself spent 20 million euros at that time and is now throwing more money at creating a system that should have been created.

The construction firm is a well-known name among public tender beneficiaries, from north to south, where it has won most of the procedures on roads with tunnels. "Similar works" have favored it in the procedures for the tunnel in Llogora, which it built with a Turkish firm.

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