
Concession contracts will receive more money from the state budget for 2024. According to the draft budget that was voted a little while ago in the Assembly, a total of 14.3 billion lek or about 1.3 billion lek more than the 2023 budget has been allocated for the coming year. , where the financing for the concessions was about 13 billion ALL.
In total, there are 10 contracts that are financed, while the construction of the Arbri road has the largest share of the concession budget. For this contract, a total of 3.5 billion ALL has been allocated for the year 2024. The other 2 contracts in the road sector that will be financed for the coming year are those of the Milot - Morin highway and the Porti i Yahteve - Orikum - Dukat axis, while the total budget for concessions in the road transport sector amounts to about 5.2 billion ALL .
Meanwhile, for the year 2024, budget support is provided for 4 concession contracts in the field of health, which include basic health control, otherwise known as check-up, sterilization of surgical instruments, provision of laboratory services and hemodialysis concession. Public-private partnership contracts in the health sector will be financed in total, with an amount of 5.4 billion ALL.
In parallel, the budget for the coming year also foresees the financing of the contract for the construction of the Tirana incinerator, with a value of 1.27 billion ALL, as the budget for this contract has increased compared to 2023. The other 2 contracts that will receive money from the 2024 budget are those of the educational infrastructure in Tirana Municipality, as well as the customs scanning service contract. Meanwhile, 3 other contracts for the construction of the incinerator in Elbasanti, Fier and the Milot - Balldren axis are now inactive.
Almost half of the amount given for the concessions is under investigation
Of these 12 concessions, for five of them - the three incinerators, checkup and sterilization - an official investigation has been opened by SPAK with accusations of corruption, abuse of office and money laundering, while the investigation has also started for the laboratory concession. The total amount given and expected to be given by the budget for these six concessions for the period 2017-2024 is about 40 billion lek (about 380 million euros), which constitutes 46% of the total payments made by the budget for all concessions!