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The scandal with toxic substances, Customs admits the violation of the law: We allowed the cargo

2024-08-21 17:02:25Investigim SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The scandal with toxic substances, Customs admits the violation of the law: We
The scandal with toxic substances

The Prosecutor's Office of Durrës announced the launch of investigations into the scandal of the export of suspected toxic waste to Thailand, denounced through two articles by the prestigious American Bloomberg.

In the brief notice, the Durrës Prosecutor's Office does not clarify who it is investigating, nor the procedural actions it has undertaken so far within the framework of this investigation. However, online media have reported that the investigations started from the Port of Durrës. If these reports are true, then the investigation in question aims to hide the main people responsible for this scandal, rather than uncovering the truth.

Where do the main responsibilities fall?

First, the Ministry of Environment, the inspectorates and institutions under it, and then the Albanian customs administration. The Port of Durrës is the last link in the control chain and not the main one.

The legislation in force burdens the Albanian customs with major responsibility. It is the latter that carry out verifications of documentation and the contents of containers in cases of export of hazardous waste. Customs are charged with the task of verifying whether such cargoes have the relevant authorization from the Ministry of Environment and then forward this information along with the relevant verifications that they have carried out to the border authorities, including port authorities.

But what happened in this case? The Ministry of Environment says that the shipment bound for Thailand was loaded to the Kurum company in Thailand without its authorization, while the media reported that the toxic substance zinc concentrate was purchased from Kurum by the company 'Sokolaj SHPK' licensed by the Ministry of Environment itself for transportation of hazardous waste.

The claim of the Ministry of Environment was rejected by the Kurum company, which through a public reaction denied any connection with the cargo in question and said that every transport of hazardous waste is carried out in compliance with local and international regulations. In this case, Kurum said that it is easily verifiable that the remains in question do not belong to her.

But, if the Ministry of Environment and the Kurum company are clear in their confrontation with contradictory statements, the Albanian Customs have come up with a complicated statement in order to remove any responsibility from themselves.

Referring to the media reports as fake news, the customs say that "the cited case is not an export from Albania, but an international transit". The statement does not determine which case it is about, since the media has denounced two such cases, one for the transport of waste to Thailand and the other for containers with toxic substances blocked in China and which were sent from Albania.

According to customs, the cargo is not a product of Albanian origin, but an international transit product between a company from Kosovo and a Swiss company without the involvement of any company from Albania. If this is the case as stated in this statement, the Albanian Customs have violated the law in force even more seriously, because the law in force point 2 of article 48 expressly states that the cross-border transit of hazardous waste in the territory of Albania is prohibited in all cases.

Precisely the assertion by the customs themselves that they have violated the law by allowing the transit through Albania of dangerous waste makes this institution headed by Gent Gazheli the main responsibility from where the prosecution's investigation should start.

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