In the middle of the pandemic, $140,000 of the Vushtrri Community went to the AAK people company.

At a time of pandemic when most business businessmen suffered serious financial shocks, a private policy-related company increased its profits.

140 thousand euros from the state budget were transferred to “M-Holding” accounts The S.P.K., a private company close to the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, last month of 2020.

Vushtrri municipality selected “M-Holding” Sh.P.K. to perform a research service on pandemic. The firm, which ironically figures to be specialised in real estate, linked agreements with the municipality for the realisation of a study on the effects of COVID-19.

The contract between the parties was signed in September 2020.

About three months later, in December of that same year, four bank transfers were carried out between the municipality and “M-Holding” Sh.P.K. The state budget was poor for 140 thousand euros.

The company that benefited hundreds of thousands of euros of Kosovo taxpayers is led by Muhamet Spahiu, Ramush Haradinaj adviser and Lorik Mucaj, close friend of the AAK leader's family.

According to the company's census act near the Agency for Registering Business (ARBK), it figures to be founded in 2017. Muchaj owns half the shares of the company. Spahiu, 25 percent more.

The results of the costly 140 thousand-euro report were put into a document on 350 pages, which contains no scientific research. The report is largely based on open sources.

Paparaci has secured the study conducted under the suspicious agreement between the municipality and the private company linked to politics.

Part of the data presented in the report has been collected from public sources near the Kosovo Statistics Agency, while others from already public information at other local and international institutions.

The data has also been released by central institutions, such as the Kosovo Tax Administration.

The report, for which the Power Council paid 140 thousand euros, is titled: “assessment of the Socio/economic Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemia in the Vushtria municipality”. It has been implemented in three stages, reports Paparaci.

In the first phase, a plan has been designed to identify businesses and employees in the Vushtrri Community. Direct support” for the two categories has been proposed at this stage of the project.

In the second phase of the report on the effects of COVID-19 in the small municipality of Vushtrri, the alleged damages caused in the business sector and the employed in the municipality are highlighted.

At this stage of research, designers have drawn 20 conclusions. Among other things, at the 18th point of the conflict, it says that the <x0 most companies estimate that the COVID-19 impact will last up to a year”.

Nearly a year and a half later, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to directly affect Kosovars' lives.

In the country, preventive measures continue to be in force.

Meanwhile, the third phase of the report, carried out by “M-Holding” Sh.P.K., includes drafting 10 measures, which “can be addressed at the central, local and other local and international donors”.

In the report, two alleged questionnaires have been mentioned as being realised with family economies and businesses. No concrete data on respondents for the questionnaires mentioned results in no report, based on the study document.

The questionnaires, according to the report, have been carried out in electronic form. Neither has the methodology followed for the realization of questionnaires, reports Paparac.

Tahiri: “contract M-Holding” positively changed budget structure

Xhafer Tahiri has positively assessed the implementation research and recommendations issued by reports that “M-Holding” Sh.P.K. He offered it to the Vushtrri municipality in exchange for 140 thousand euros.

The former head of the Vushtrri municipality told Paparac that the company's councils changed budget structure from a priority approach “asphatin” to a spirit “development”.

“So far in 20 years we have had the principal budget of asphalt where investments have focused on road asphyxiating, while based on research and recommendations that are approved by the Assembly of the Community, the change of the municipal budget structure is proposed from the asphalt budget to the country's” development budget, Tahiri said, in an explanation for Paparacin.

According to the former leader of Vushtrri, the recommendations of the company that “audited” the effects of pandemic in the municipality have given priority to youth employment.

He, however, has not shown precise data about youth employment and the creation of new jobs, about a year and a half after the study was implemented.

Until 1m euros are projected to be removed from street categories or asphalt, and transfer them to development projects and youth employment, creating new jobs, supporting young people through various subsidies, paying for practice in business for businesses so that they can get access to jobs more easily to”, Tahiri explained, in an effort to reason with the report.

Tahiri, more precisely the figures for subsidies in the form of subsidies for over 500 businesses in the Vushtrri municipality. These subsidies, he said, have stemmed as a result of recommendations from reports conducted by “M-Holding” Sh.P.K.

Various business assistance implemented because of the findings we've seen from research. In the first year, 250 thousand euros have been distributed direct financial assistance to 513 businesses in Vushtrri”, he said.

The “is also designed to free all businesses from municipal taxes in the set time period”.

Whether businesses in the Vushtrri municipality have been released from municipal taxes is unknown 15 months after the end of the 140 thousand-euro study.

Tahiri, however, has said the report has drawn further conclusions.

Also proposed on the basis of the strategy is to review the municipal tax structure, especially property taxes, so that families and businesses in Vushtrri can also be allowed to get a faster recovery by reducing property tax to 20 percent”, he added.

Study Results and Millions' Projects on Paper

Except for the research report, for the 140 thousand euros it accepted from the state, the company “M-Holding” Sh.P.K. Also compile a “tum on pandemic”.

Company research entitled “The study on COVID Pandemia-19” is shorter than the study on pandemic efficiency.

Much of this report is carried out through questionnaires about economies and businesses in Vushtrri.

The findings of the research, which Paparac owns, point out that the pandemic has influenced many in the municipality of Vushtrri to lose their jobs. It also discusses remittances sent from outside.

Subsequent households have suffered a decline from remittances sent from exiles to different European countries and the US”. This is due to this research because even “leftovers are affected by the pandemic”, said at one of the report's points.

In this additional report he offered to the municipality, the report recommends the company of ten local government measures.

One of the measures suggests redestining over threem euros in subsidies categories, which were mainly used for asphalt of local roads. The reduction of property tax is also proposed to 25% for citizens and businesses. It is recommended that two thousand young people be trained on pay for the job market.

The report by the nearby AAK company envisions development projects worth millions, including building the city's heating facility worth 12m euros, the sewage plant worth 15m euros, and the gasification of the city worth 6m euros.

None of the million projects have been initiated by the municipality.

The Vushtrri municipality led a suspicious, negotiated and closed procedure for selecting the winning company in the tender, which was won by people linked to Ramush Haradinaj's former power.

Three companies competed in the procurement procedure.

At the time, the Vushtrri municipality stated that the 140 thousand-euro price for the one-source tender “has been reasonable and favourable for the municipality”. /Paparacy. com