Kosovo-Albania powerline scandal

At least this comes as a result of the official correspondence given by Top Channel. The correspondence says that the project has started on March 2011, when the tender for the new project was held, resulting with two winning companies, the Croatian Dalekovo and the Bosnian Energoinvest.

After the tender, the verification of the offers continued with three next phases, which inspect the qualification, the technical and financial eligibilities, all of them held on 22 August and 20 September 2011, as a document of the German KFW Bank shows. After these phases, the TSO representatives from Kosovo and Albania have declared the Croatian Dalekovod Company as winner, which was chosen for the technical guarantees, although it received fewer points than the company in the second place, the Entergoinvest.

On 3 November 2011, the tender adviser notified the Croatian company that they were considered winners, but on 8 February 2012, the TSO directror, Arben Ibro, notified KFW that he has decided to negotiate with the second wining company, the Bosnian Energoinvest.

This decision was not welcomed by the German Bank, which addressed the TSO director with an official letter the next day, telling that they would not favor the second company. KFW says that the offer of “Energoinvest” is financially lower and that the procedures showed the Croatian Dalegovod as winner, since it offered bigger technical guarantees.N For this reason, according to the KFW, Ibro says that the TSO decision for declaring the Bosnians as winners is not in accordance with the KFW instructions.

This dissatisfaction was clearly expressed by the KFW, and it is also confirmed by the Minister of Economy. Nasip Naco sent a letter to Mr. Ivi Kason, on 20 February, as Director of Inner Inspection and Anticorruption, at the Council of Minister, and he made aware of this letter Prime Minister Berisha, the Minister of Finances, Bode, dn the TSO director, Arben Ibro.

Naco writes on the letter that the TSO decision for changing the tender winner is unprofessional and unacceptable. Naco reminded the TSO director that the offers are evaluated according to the conditions of the financing country. The Minister of Economy notes with concern that the TSO decision causes a 2.5 million EUR damage annually, if the tender will put in risk the power line construction and the relations with KFW, one of the biggest and more serious donators in our country, and also the relations with the German government.

The TSO director, Arben Ibro, was appointed to this duty on July 2011. Ibro was initially a National Guard officer and then bodyguard of the then President, Sali Berisha. In 1997 he served at the National Intelligence Service and years later at the Airport, from where he was dismissed by the former Minister of Public Order, Igli Toska.

2006 found Mr. Ibro as head of Durres Customs, while in 2009 he was transferred to the Lezhe customs, but only after two weeks he returned at the Durres Customs, where he served until before being appointed at the TSO.

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