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The EU exposes the fraud with the IPARD funds in Albania: The contracts were fake, they paid a high percentage to win!

2024-06-21 15:20:37Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The EU exposes the fraud with the IPARD funds in Albania: The contracts were
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The European Anti-Fraud Office, commonly known as OLAF, has revealed the fraud with the funds of the IPARD program in Albania, a scandal that broke out a year ago and "ate the head " of the Minister of Agriculture Frida Krifca, who had previously been the head of AZHBR.

OLAF is a body mandated by the European Union (EU) for the protection of the financial interests of the countries of the union and was set in motion by a denunciation sent by Albania, which showed the scheme of stealing funds for agriculture and giving them to people in power , or related to the government.

A part of the report on the abuse of funds has been published on the official website of this EU institution.

OLAF clarifies that applicants for IPARD II were obliged to pay a large percentage of their grant to "pre-selected" consulting companies, which would then facilitate contracts with the Albanian Agency for Rural Development and Agriculture (AZBR), and which distributed the funds.

After a series of complex investigative steps, including digital forensic searches of documents related to IPARD II recipients, AZHBR and other economic operators, OLAF discovered some serious irregularities during the grant awarding phase and the implementation of some projects.

 These irregularities included:

- Applicants are required to pay a significant portion of their grant to a local consulting company;

- Contracts that are awarded without competition, or through a manipulated competition (with false offers being submitted);

- Inflated prices and violation of contractual rules.

Following its investigation, OLAF recommended that the European Commission consider part of the funding of the First and Second IPARD II Calls for Applications of €33 million as ineligible.

The program was created to help modernize the Albanian agricultural sector in line with EU standards and achieve progress towards EU membership.

OLAF further recommended that the EU prevent 112 million euros of future funding (IPARD III) for Albania from unnecessary spending, until corrective measures are put in place to protect the EU's financial interests from any illegal activity.

The European Anti-Fraud Office has investigated serious allegations involving the misuse of EU funds from the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance for Rural Development (IPARD II) in Albania.

Based on the possible criminal activities discovered during the investigation, OLAF also sent a copy of its findings to the judicial authorities of Albania./ Ec.europa


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