Doubts of Misuse in Memorial dedicated to President Ibrahim Rugova

The Istog municipality has filed illegal contract complaints about the correction of the memorial “Ibrahim Rugova - phase of IV.

The National Audition Office has found major violations of the procurement law of this project, which is in the final stage, the news.

But other phases of the project are also suspicious.

Construction included party people whom Rugova had led for 17 years. The first two contracts were awarded to LDK assemblyist Hajrush Shoshi's brother in Istog.

The next contract was awarded to the company, which has already been led by former Youth Chairman of the Democratic League of Dardania, Vigan Syla, who had passed through LDK in 2011. Whether Syla is still active in this party is unknown.

The idea project was carried out by the son-in-law of Istog's municipality, Esat Bytyqi. He lives and works in Vienna, and the municipality said he did this project for free. Nevertheless, at the IV phase, according to the audience, the contracts under Article 35 of LPP7 are allowed up to 10% of the value of the original contract. The original contract for “The revision of Ibrahim Rugova Memorial é phase of IV” was worth 348,934 euros.

The municipality had linked a contract annex worth 92,456 euros, representing 26.5% of the original contract.

So the overpass was 57,563 euros, which was over 10% of the contract. Also, in this audience procurement procedure, some shortcomings have been identified. “in the winning OE tender file was not presumption of work.

After the contract's connection, by date, respectively. 15,10.2018, OE winner has announced the municipality under contract contract contracts, which is contrary to the tender file article 4.2; The municipality has not announced KCPP within two (2) days of the date when the decision was made to apply the negotiated procedure without publication, which is the request of LPP's Article 20, says the Auditor's Report on the Z project. KA, it has concluded that there are delays in realising this contract from the fact that with the dynamic plan and specific terms of the contract was scheduled for the contract to be completed in December 2018.

“We have noted that by the end of February 2019 the project had not been completed, and there was no approval for continued jobs or even criminal applications; and the execution of the contract during the physical examination, we have identified that three positions were not carried out according to contracted producers. B1 of 12,780, B2 of $760, and the position of C1 of 25,800euro. The contract manager had approved these changes because according to him they were of the same technical characteristics as”, the ZKA says.

Regarding this project, the audience says that overcoming the value of additional jobs and other registered procurement shortcomings in this project, to the execution of jobs, increases the risk of the project not being completed with the required quality and having deviations from the original project. Works on the implementation of this project began in October 2015.

The next phase of performing the works began in August 2016, but the company “Conex Group” has failed to perform the tasks that should be completed by December 2016. That's why his contract was terminated.

The company in question has not been punished at all by the municipality for disrespecting the contract. Due to the failure to perform long-term works, the municipality has lost 184 thousand and 545 euros from the Environment and Spatial Planning Ministry grant.

The final contract for performing works on this memorial was signed in October 2018.