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How Bankers' multi-billion euro corruption is being silently extinguished: Have banks, private firms and officials been amnestied?!

2025-09-02 23:00:17Investigim SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
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Two months after the delayed action of the Albanian justice system against the concession company Bankers, where several executives and former executives were arrested, the file of the Fier Prosecutor's Office is in the dock. No action for the "collaborators" of the arrested Chinese and Albanians!

If the prosecution has so far proven that they have violated the laws of the Albanian state, with great damage to the budget itself, with whom did these private individuals collaborate? Who allowed them to turn over over 6 billion euros and issue balance sheets with minimal profits, the size of a neighborhood market?

The "Bankers" dossier should definitely extend to the signatories of the concession. To those who renegotiated the agreement or to the structures of the National Agency for Natural Resources or even the Tax Directorate that allowed a terrible abuse. But also to those state officials who allowed a huge fortune to be stolen from Albanians.

No one claims that if you dig a bucket from the ground, you will get fuel and pour it into the vehicle. But everyone knows that the Albanian subsoil is rich in natural resources, which need processing to extract good fuel. And such material is abundant in the Patos-Marinza oil field, the largest field in Albania, which has been given to a concession company for almost 20 years.

The Fier Prosecutor's Office's file should definitely be extended to companies that have done business with "Bankers". Firms that have grown significantly, as much as the money that has been extracted from the underground, has been invested in construction in the most elite areas in Albania. But, who is amnestying these firms?!

One of the companies that also appears in the file and has not been hit so far is "Bolv Oil". Bankers' invoices show that the company has received millions of euros. But how did it get this money? Did the concessionaire firm carry out any procedure to award public works to this firm? It seems like a game that Bankers' executives played with the owner of Bolv Oil, Behar Çukaj, because if the work had been carried out by the concessionaire firm itself, then the investment tax would have been 50%. Çukaj did it and paid 15%. How was the money divided?!

For all questions, there should definitely be official information from the Fier Prosecutor's Office and not leave this whole scandal in silence. But if the aforementioned firms are private and found a "place to make a mess", which institution or state official allowed them?

Of course, those who should have done their duty, but turned a blind eye and perhaps extended their hands so that this scandal would only continue endlessly, with colossal damage. Now justice must do the simplest thing and that is "A" of investigations; follow the money! It is very easy to find out where this money went, as it is enough to check the balance sheets of the companies to see that the money was invested in construction, mainly in Tirana.

Everyone has eaten and dipped their fingers in the Bankers affair, where a firm operating in Fier such as "Albstar" has benefited from Bankers contracts. Again the same procedure, where it seems that the investigators should focus on the investments of this firm in Tirana, mainly with multi-storey buildings. In fact, this firm has also carried out construction on the coast, with permission from the heads of state. Even as a strategic investor!

The prosecution says that Bankers did the work with subcontractors, the very firms that have been ripping him off for years, with the approval of the concessionaire's managers and owners. The investigations have proven that from 2005 to 2025, Bankers exported crude oil worth 598,581,754,111 lek. Despite this billion-dollar turnover, profits have still been trickling down.

The prosecution's file contains dozens of wiretaps of "Bankers" employees, which highlight that the concessionaire kept its accounts active in Albania, but did not deposit money. The firm operated only with the "Raiffeisen Bank" bank, in Albania and then in Austria, "transporting" underground money, in a very suspicious operation.

"Bankers has no bank accounts declared to AKBN or the Tax Administration outside the territory of the Republic of Albania. Telephone interceptions have revealed that one of these accounts is located in Austria at Raiffeisen Bank, but it has not been reported who credits it, in what amounts it credits, what its balances are, etc., despite the legal obligation it has to declare. Bankers, through these undeclared bank accounts until now, makes preferential payments to several entities here in Albania as well," the prosecution's file states.

Who allowed him to have this account?! Why haven't the investigations been extended to AKBN or even this second-tier bank? Could it be that influences, whether from business, politics or even crime itself, have 'impeded' an investigation by the Fier Prosecutor's Office?!

So far, it has been proven that Bankers has transferred money in various directions, both to entities and individuals, without reporting to any Albanian state institution. These transfers have been made since 2005!

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