5D file (Tirana municipality tenders)
Status: Trial referral reported (A2 News headline, not fetched). Current status not confirmed.
Summary
A separate SPAK file concerning the company 5D Konstruksion and alleged tender irregularities at the Tirana Municipality. Tirana Times (30 Apr 2024) reports that SPAK believes former municipal directors Redi Molla and Mariglen Qato were the suspected owners. The link to Veliaj is described as indirect in the sources reviewed: Veliaj's subordinates were arrested in this file and the Veliaj case was later opened separately.
Key facts
- Suspected owners named by SPAK (as reported by Tirana Times, 30 Apr 2024): Redi Molla and Mariglen Qato.
The record
Four lists kept apart on purpose: what is established, what is only alleged, what is still open, and what those concerned said.
What is proven (0)
Established by documents or official records, as stated in the research. A recorded charge or indictment proves only that the accusation was made.
Nothing recorded in this list.
What is alleged (1)
Accusations, not findings. Those accused are presumed innocent.
- AllegationBeneficial ownership of 5D Konstruksion by Molla and Qato (SPAK suspicion, as reported).
Allegations and who made them (1)
Each line is an allegation as recorded, with the person or body that made it where the record names them.
- AllegationSPAK alleges 5D won tenders in violation of procurement rules (search summary; primary text not fetched).
Open questions (2)
- Whether the file was referred to trial and with which defendants.
- Whether other officials were beneficiaries (SPAK said open fractions remained, per search summary).
Responses (0)
Responses of the people and organisations concerned, as recorded.
Nothing recorded in this list.
Figures
Money trail →5D Konstruksion municipal tenders, period as reported (no value found)
No amount recorded
Incomplete figuretenderSource label: Officially reportedStated definition: No contract values found in the sources read. Period conflicts: 2016-2020 (Shqiptarja summary) vs 11 procurement procedures 2016-2022 (Balkanweb summary). INCOMPLETE.
Date: 2016/2022 · Payer: Tirana Municipality · Payee: 5D Konstruksion sh.p.k
- Mariglen Qato dhe Redi Molla moren tendera me kompanine 5D (opens in a new tab)Balkanweb · undated · journalism · SQ
- Dosja 5D: SPAK mbyll hetimet dhe dergon per gjykim ishdrejtoret e Bashkise Tirane (opens in a new tab)Shqiptarja · undated · journalism · SQ
5D tenders won while Molla/Qato allegedly controlled the company (value disputed)
€30,000,000
tenderSource label: UnverifiedStated definition: Approximate, from one news summary (45 tenders worth about EUR 30m). Another report gives 11 tender procedures over 2016-2022 with value not stated. Not verified; use only as a range indicator.
Date: 2016 · Payer: Tirana municipality (per reporting) · Payee: 5d-konstruksion
- Mariglen Qato and Redi Molla took tenders with the company 5D; SPAK sends them to trial (opens in a new tab)BalkanWeb · journalism · SQ
Timeline
Full timeline →SPAK
SPAK arrests Tirana municipality officials over tenders awarded to a company they allegedly controlled (Molla, Qato)
Top Channel (English, 28 Mar 2024) reports SPAK's allegations that Redi Molla and Mariglen Qato founded the company, that Molla declared it the tender winner while he and Qato controlled it, and that evaluation commission members favoured it. Molla is named as former General Director of Ujësjellës Kanalizime Tirana; Qato as former director of the Territory Protection Inspectorate and of Tirana's Water and Sewerage. The company name is not stated in the article. Responses are not stated.
SPAK
SPAK summons Veliaj (incinerator probe)
Veliaj is summoned to SPAK for the first time, in connection with the Tirana waste incinerator investigation (Tirana Times dateline). Veliaj said: 'the only thing that has connected me has been the cleanliness of this city, now exemplary in cleanliness.'
Connections
5D case: company subject of trial (new sources)
Evidence: A2 reports the Special Court passed the 5D file to trial; Balkanweb reports SPAK sent Qato and Molla and co-defendants to trial. Cross-ref tocase-5d.
Sources for this record
Every source the research cites for this record, grouped by its source label. 5 sources.
Source label: Officially reportedOfficially reported · 5 sources
- Publisher
- Tirana Times
- Date
- 30 Apr 2024
- Publisher
- A2 CNN Albania
- Date
- undated
- Publisher
- Top Channel
- Date
- 28 Mar 2024
- Publisher
- Balkanweb
- Date
- undated
- Publisher
- Shqiptarja
- Date
- undated