The businessman who “stole” army training base
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Idlir Karkini, the businessman involved in land theft scandal in Rrogozhina, is a known name to the public. Three years ago, his company “Ideal Tel” was reported by the Supreme State Audit as involved in a serious affair, directly damaging the national security.
This is the so-called scandal of army radars. In December 2013, the Ministry of Defense gave “Idea Tel” company the right to manage the integrated system of marine radars, taking the right away from the American giant “Lockheed Martin”.
In 2015, the Supreme State Audit find violations in the procedure that removed the contract from Lockheed Martin and gave it to “Idea Tel”, which at that time was registered as a cell-phone service shop.
According to the SSA, the Ministry of Defense found “Idea Tel” winner although it did not have the necessary expertise to supervise the marine territory, it had also offered a price four times higher than Lockheed Martin.
The scandal got deeper in 2016, when the Electronic Communication Authority found that the radars had been turned off, leaving the marine borders without supervision.
The opposition accused the government of appointing Idea Tel to favour the drug traffic led by the government, accusing this way the former Defense Minister, Mimi Kodheli.
“Supervisions made by Italian partners showed that Noriega’s narco-state had trusted the radars to gangs, through Kodheli”, Berisha declared on March 11th.
Kodheli responded by saying that the radars, from 2012 to 2013, were all down, all turned off. “We used a special contingency fund of 85 million ALL to restart the system”, Kodheli said in November 2017.
Two years after the scandal, Idlir Karkini is on the run, this time as a suspect for stealing military lands in Spille.
The Prosecution says that the property of the Ministry of Defense has been falsified by Rrogozhina municipality officials.
Prosecution’s verifications showed that he was owner through a falsification scheme. The suspected businessman has left the country a few days before police officers knocked on his door.
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