Albanian Post: Special Prosecution Begins Investigation of Illegal Debt for Water Wattlers

According to the first estimates, the documentation provided by Albanian Post turns out to be about 90m euros.

Special Prosecutor's spokeswoman, Liridona Kozmaqi, has told of Albanian Post that this case is already in Special Prosecution.

The case you asked for, I inform you that it is in treatment at Special Prosecutor”, it wrote via email.

Kozmaqi has added that “due to the sensitivity of the case, at this stage we cannot provide more”.

In addition to the Special Prosecutor's Office, Kosovo's Parliament has been committed to this case, where a parliamentary commission is proposed to investigate the case, and on Thursday, the commission's composition in the Assembly is expected to be voted.

What exactly happened?

In a sophisticated fraud procedure, Lieburn Aliu, Minister of Environment, Spatial Planning and Infrastructure, along with Naser Hafizin, deputy director of the Regional Banking Authority, has caused Kosovo tens of millions of euros in damage by paying off debts in illegal forms to Kosovo's water storage companies.

Only in the section of the file that Albian Post has broken down, in the case of only 5 water booking companies (from 27 total to 11 million and 152 thousand euros in the state of Kosovo.

All this debt, Aliu, through his subordinate Hafizi, who had just become minister and had been passed illegally from the Financial Official's position to that of the Retailer of the Tax and Project Division Leader and eventually as the Director of the Regional Banking Authority, has repaid these companies with only a few thousand euros in payments.

Albanian Post owns all documents for Ali and Hafizi's fraud.

How did the theft happen?

Aliu and Hafizi form on March 1, 2022, a ministerial Worker Group that would account for the debts of all the companies of the ambalnizers and after the full amounts of the debt were allocated, according to law and Administrative Guide 06/2021 for the Water Tax Structuring, to be made.

According to Article 8 of this Administrative Guide, companies are obliged to have abdominal capacity and “are obliged to keep evidence of the amount of water used” and “the quantity of downloaded water”.

Through these evidence they then report to the ministry and make payments per litre per second, depending on how they have been established with the permission they get.

If they don't, then the ministry itself will fix this part, according to Article 9 of Administrative Guide.

“If the enforcer did not keep evidence and did not make reporting, or did reporting with suspicious and inaccurate data, by January 15th for the preceding year, the ministry in the term of 30) days issues the verdict and the bill by counting on data from the technical documentation invested for the maximum 34x1> of exploitation.

Aliu and Hafizi, instead of respecting the law and since companies had failed to report for more than a decade, t dealt the bill with the debt write-off, as administrative instruction puts it, they decide to issue an illegal document and only report these companies to the “financial defiction” they have.

Reports go to companies not with a debt write-off, but only illegal debt reporting.

No law or administrative direction recognizes such announcements for “permanent decisions”.

As it turns out, this was only one approach of Ali and Hafizi to get into shopping with companies.

All this irregularities were reported on December 12, 2022 Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti.

Mr. Prime Minister, asking you a lot of forgiveness in a situation where Kosovo is facing the Serbian aggressor, I am forced to write to you about a case that really requires your attention” was told Kurt at the email that Albanian Post provided, by a signal that understood what Ali and Hafizi were doing.

He was then explained in detail the matter and the thefts that were taking place in the ministry.

Kurt had not responded at all, and he had decided to take care of it despite the announcement.

Even after sending the message to the prime minister, Kurt was sent to a disciplinary commission to change his position.

Albanian Post has contacted Hafizi, but he has refused to respond.

He once declared that I could not speak because I am currently outside Kosovo”.

Then he asked that <x0 does not publish anything without the official answers we will send through your questions”.

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