Rreshen-Kalimash road “devours†other 100 million USD
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The Durres-Kukes road construction bill, the greatest public investment in Albania, doesn’t seem to have any intention to stop growing.
Top-Channel has learned that in the first five months of this year, the government has paid to Bechtel Enka Consortium an additional sum of 100 million USD for the works inside the tunnel. Official sources say that in the first five months of the year, the government has invested 22 billion ALL on the inner sources of our economy.
But 45.5% of these investments went to the Durres-Kukes highway. The cost of this road, which has put Albania’s finances in great difficulties, continues to grow despite the fact that its inauguration was made two years earlier, on June 2009. Even government’s official data show the cost of the road has gone to more than 100 billion ALL or 1 billion USD, surpassing the 10% of the GDP, setting a record not only for Albania.
The Durrws-Kukes bill, more specifically, the most expensive segment, the “Rreshen-Kalimash”, has spurred controversy between the government and the opposition. Two years ago there was also an investigation launched by the Prosecution. Although the Prosecution officially formulated the accusation for power abuse with damage of hundreds of millions of dollars, the trial was never held, because the terms of investigation set by the Court had expired.
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