An investigation launched three years ago into the staff of the Agricultural University in Kamza has led to the arrest of 5 people by order of SPAK, 10 under house arrest and 9 others under compulsory reporting, among them vice rectors, lecturers, procurement directors and an IT specialist.
The security measure "prison arrest" has been imposed on Edmond Tërthorjan, University administrator, Altin Murto, director of public funds, Amarildo Lleshi, director of public procurement, and Mehmet Qoshja, specialist for funds, who are suspected of having committed the criminal offense of "Violation of equality of participants in public tenders or auctions" in collaboration with each other.
The same measure has been imposed on Pirro Zogu, the head of a private entity suspected of the crime of "Forgery of documents".
For 10 other people suspected of having committed the criminal offense of "Violation of equality of participants in tenders or public auctions", the security measure "house arrest" has been imposed, while for 9 others, including the two vice rectors, Ilir Kapajn and Romina Koton, a milder measure has been imposed, that of being required to appear.
Through investigations using special methods such as; wiretapping of telephone conversations of officials of the Agricultural University of Tirana, observations conducted by the State Police and documentation management, nine procurement procedures conducted in 2022, with a procurement value of 90,000,000 lek, have been investigated.
During the investigation, legal violations were identified by responsible academic personnel at UBT, citizens; Ilir Kapaj and Romina Koto, vice-rectors at the Agricultural University of Tirana and head of the Department of Preclinical Modules at UBT, who, at the time of designing projects and securing funds from the National Agency for Scientific Research and Innovation, carried out actions in collaboration with the head of the contracting authority, Edmond Tërthorja, Administrator of UBT.
Their illegal actions consisted of preparing fictitious project data, with specifications prepared by the competing and winning economic operators themselves in these procurement procedures.
The investigations also show that violations occurred even after the funds were secured by AKKSHI. Cases of the development of a procurement procedure with a predetermined economic operator for equipment and other goods, which were made available to the contracting authority, were also identified, several months before the announcement of the procurement procedures. (A2 Televizion)
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