SPAK investigations and the Meta/Nuel Kalaj file, the mysterious immigrant at the center of the multi-million euro privatization of OSSH in 2010

2024-12-17 14:13:00Investigim SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Ilir Meta/ Nuel Kalaj

In the property investigation that led to the arrest of SPAK's Ilir Meta, a good part of the file is based on the CEZ-DIA case and the role of the President of the Freedom Party in it.

SPAK raises suspicions in the file that behind the agreement between the CEZ executives and Kastriot Ismailaj's DIA lie corrupt affairs, in which Ilir Meta is also involved and has an active role. 

But, to better understand the CEZ-DIA scandal, the entire privatization process of the Distribution System Operator should have been fully investigated, where the key character publicly accused of being the connecting link between the personal interests of the government at the time and the Czechs was Nuel Kalaj.

He has been accused of being the broker who established the connection between Sali Berisha and the CEZ executives, and in 2016, Romeo Kara even mentioned Shkëlzen Berisha's name during his testimony to the parliamentary investigative committee.

Nuel Kalaj is accused of having withdrawn 6.8 million euros from a second-tier bank in Tirana after signing the privatization agreement, then taking it out of Albania without paying any taxes or performing any documented work.

"The success fee for this deal was 3.6 million euros, strangely set to be paid by the winner, which was CEZ. It is said in this letter that this person, in 2011, had 3.6 million euros in his account. It is said that he also had connections with the prime minister's son, but there is no complete material for this," Romeo Kara testified.

This evidence was administered by the investigative commission and included in the file submitted to the prosecution. The prosecution, in the last days of Adriatik Llalla's mandate, attempted to close the file, but the court ordered further investigations into this matter.

An email from the former director of CEZ in Albania, Josef Hejsek, who wrote to the deputy director of CEZ in Prague, Tomas Pleskac, about the planned meeting with Shkëlzeni and former Prime Minister Berisha, was also administered as evidence.

SPAK investigations and the Meta/Nuel Kalaj file, the mysterious immigrant at

According to the e-mail, Josef Hejsek was with Nuel Kalaj in the VIP lounge of Rinas airport and had come to Tirana to negotiate with Shkëlzen Berisha and Sali Berisha.

From the content of the e-mail, it is clear that Nuel Kalaj, from an immigrant in France, has suddenly transformed into the main negotiator of the multi-million euro agreement between CEZ and the Albanian government.

This very fact may be enough for the special prosecutor's office to not limit itself to investigating the scandal of collecting overdue invoices, but to also investigate the entire privatization process of the most valuable state-owned company at the time.

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