Edmond Bego
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Legal status
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What this means: The research does not establish this person's legal status.
Profile
Businessman named in Democratic Party allegations (2018 and later) as having received public tenders from OST and OSHEE, and as a family friend of Taulant Balla. Opposition figures say he was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to 21 years; no court record was checked in this research. Balla says he knows Bego and travelled with him once.
Response from Edmond Bego
Not directly reported in sources reviewed.
Related cases
Sorted by reported money, then by linked people and their legal status. The money figure is the largest single reported figure, not a total.
From 22 Aug 2018
Edmond Bego allegations against Taulant Balla (2018)
In August 2018 the Democratic Party alleged that convicted trafficker Edmond Bego won public tenders because of his ties to Balla. Luçjano Boçi (25 Aug 2018) cited about 14 million euro in tenders…
Status: Allegations only. No prosecutorial or court finding on Balla found.
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Connections
Open the map →Company linked to Bego (PD allegation)
Evidence: Spaho (PD) named Inerte Express as Bego's company (Shqiptarja, 22 Aug 2018). No registry check completed.
Mining permit without tender (PD claim)
Evidence: Salianji (PD) alleged that Gjiknuri signed a mining permit without tender for a Bego company; the ministry said the process was transparent and that the previous PD government had issued a similar permit (Shqiptarja search snippet, not fetched).
100 million lek OST tender, Librazhd (PD allegation)
Evidence: PD (Spaho, 22 Aug 2018) said the tender went to a Bego-linked company. Same allegation as fin-ost-tender-bego-100m-alleged in. No OST record found.
alleged friendship and travel; no company tie found
Evidence: PD (Boçi, Aug 2018) says Bego is a family friend of Balla. Balla said he knows Bego and travelled with him once, denied preferential tenders, and said he was not aware of the conviction (Exit.al, 19 Oct 2018). No Balla company ownership documented.
Timeline
Court
Balla sues Ervin Salianji for 1 million lek over claims of trips with Bego
Following Salianji's claims that Balla travelled 25 or 57 times with Bego (18 by charter, per TIMS data attributed to Salianji), Balla filed a civil suit seeking 1 million lek in moral damages, which he said would go to the education fund. Filing date and outcome not found; the year is inferred from the 2018 context of the other Bego allegations.
Linked: Edmond Bego allegations against Taulant Balla (2018) · Taulant Balla · Ervin Salianji · Edmond Bego
Media
PD's Edmond Spaho alleges Bego-linked company Inerte Express won a 100 million lek OST tender in Balla's constituency
Spaho said Inerte Express, linked to Bego, had no substation experience but won OST tenders, including a 100 million lek tender in Librazhd, because of Bego's ties to Balla. Balla replied in Elbasan that 'we were elected to do work' and that some critics were elected only to talk. No OST document, registry record or prosecutorial statement was found in the sources.
Linked: Edmond Bego allegations against Taulant Balla (2018) · Edmond Spaho · Taulant Balla · Edmond Bego
Media
PD MP Luçjano Boçi alleges Edmond Bego received about 14 million euro in tenders
Opposition allegation naming Bego as a family friend of Taulant Balla; no company ownership by Balla claimed.
Linked: Luçjano Boçi · Edmond Bego · Taulant Balla
Media
Taulant Balla responds on TV to allegations about Edmond Bego
Balla says he knows Bego and travelled with him, and denies preferential treatment in tenders. Balla has sued opposition MP Ervin Salianji over related claims (Shqiptarja, title seen in search results).
Linked: Taulant Balla · Edmond Bego
Sources for this record
Every source the research cites for this record, grouped by its source label. 4 sources.
Source label: UnverifiedUnverified · 4 sources
- Publisher
- Shqiptarja
- Date
- 25 Aug 2018
- Publisher
- Exit.al
- Date
- 19 Oct 2018
- Publisher
- Shqiptarja
- Date
- 22 Aug 2018
- Publisher
- Shqiptarja
- Date
- unknown