Ghost company manages hospital waste but has no office or valid address

22/03/2018 21:00

“Eco Medica” is one of the existing companies that are licensed for eliminating hospital waste. But this company exists only on papers. It cannot be found in any of the places where dangerous waste is processed.

According to a document submitted to the Prosecution by the Health Inspectorate, based on the environmental permit which the company uses to win bids, it does not exist.

The document that Top Channel has obtained says that besides being non-existent, there is no installation at the given address where activities for treating the elimination of hospital waste are conducted.

After an environmental permit was received under the name “Jamarber Group”, a more recent permit was given on December 20th, 2017. The address is registered for eliminating dangerous waste at the Popular Neighborhood in Shijak.

It describes in details, from the coordinates to the autoclave, that it will be used for eliminating the dangerous waste.

Top Channel was in Shijak to confirm the data declared by this subject. But instead of the ghost company, which exists on papers as a firm that eliminates waste, there was a marble processing company.

Besides this, two businesses owned by the main shareholder of this company have had incidents. There has even been an explosive placed at the storage he rented in Shijak for hospital waste.

“Eco Medica” has declared the National Business Center in Fushe-Kuqa, Lezhe, as their new address. But after this change, based on Article 20.2 of the law for hospital waste, the company should have reapplied for renewing its environmental permit with the new coordinates.

This did not happen. Top Channel asked for the new address, and there was another company, the V.A.Le recycling. Its administrator admits that both companies have won hospital bids together, but Eco Medica has never had an address there.

Top Channel: “Do you know where can we find the headquarters of ‘Eco Medica’, since you are business partners?

Elvis Miri, Administrator of V.A.Le Recycling: Eco Medica has an agreement with us for processing waste, which we process in the places where we are licensed. I do not know anything about the rest.

With a permit that has fake address, this ghost company has competed for managing the waste of the “Shefqet Ndroqi” and the Fier hospitals. In 2017, although the company has no site to complete the elimination, it has eliminated the dangerous waste of the Tepelena, Erseka, Lushnja and Kucova hospitals.

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