Erion Isai
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Profile
Mayor of the Kolonjë municipality in southeastern Albania. SPAK has prosecuted him over tenders organised by Bashkia Kolonjë. Party affiliation not stated in the sources opened.
Legal status
Charged
charged
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Response from Erion Isai
Shteg (26 Sep 2025): Isai has not commented on the allegations. Balkanweb (12 June 2026): no response reported.
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 2023
Kolonjë mayor Erion Isai: tenders (Korçë–Ersekë road, water supply, Gjonç reservoir, check dams), SPAK charges
Erion Isai, mayor of Kolonjë, is the subject of two strands of SPAK work. An investigation published by Shteg in September 2025, based on leaked documents and SPAK's preliminary file, alleges that he…
Status: Charged and defendant (reported June 2026). No verdict.
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Hypotheses
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- Source label: Unverified
Municipal tender and electoral cases involve mayors from more than one party, which points to a shared local-procurement problem rather than one party's network
Tender and electoral-corruption cases reviewed in this round involve the mayor of Kolonjë (Isai, June 2026; party according to a secondary report only), a PS mayor (Vau i Dejës, Shkreli, Oct 2025), a PSD candidate's family (Fier, May 2025) and an earlier PS-era tender complaint (Dibër, Imeraj, 2020).
Evidence for
- Isai appeared at SPAK in a tender-equality case (Balkanweb, 12 Jun 2026).
- Shkreli was taken as a defendant in an electoral case (Balkanweb, 3 Oct 2025).
- A PD branch filed a complaint against PS mayor Imeraj over a 2020 tender (Shqiptarja, 12 May 2020).
Evidence against
- The cases are at different stages; none has a verdict in the sources reviewed.
- Imeraj's and Isai's cases are procurement complaints, not electoral corruption, so they may not be one pattern.
- Complaints come from opposing parties, so each may be politically motivated; no response from the accused is in the Imeraj or Isai articles.
Connections
Open the map →mayor of Kolonjë, defendant in tender-equality case (June 2026)
Evidence: Balkanweb, 12 Jun 2026: appeared at SPAK as a defendant; 'kryebashkiaku i Kolonjës'.
Alleged coordination with winning engineering firm
Evidence: Shteg (26 Sep 2025) alleges close coordination and predetermined winner; no response from Isai.
Timeline
Other
Shteg investigation alleges Kolonjë mayor Erion Isai predetermined tender winners
Based on leaked documents and SPAK preliminary file; no response from Isai.
Linked: Kolonjë mayor Erion Isai: tenders (Korçë–Ersekë road, water supply, Gjonç reservoir, check dams), SPAK charges · Erion Isai
SPAK
Kolonjë mayor Erion Isai appears at SPAK as a defendant in a tender-equality case
Balkanweb reports that Isai appeared at SPAK on 12 June 2026 and was taken as a defendant for breaching equal treatment in public tenders. The complaint says most tenders run by Kolonjë municipality were marked as predetermined and that works (including the 2023 Gjonçi reservoir and check dams) were not completed to standard. The article contains no response from Isai.
Linked: Erion Isai
SPAK
Kolonjë mayor Erion Isai appears before SPAK as defendant
Charged with violating equal-treatment principles in tenders (2023 dam and check-dam works).
Linked: Kolonjë mayor Erion Isai: tenders (Korçë–Ersekë road, water supply, Gjonç reservoir, check dams), SPAK charges · Erion Isai
Sources for this record
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Source label: Officially reportedOfficially reported · 2 sources
- Publisher
- Balkanweb
- Date
- 12 Jun 2026
- Publisher
- Shteg Investigativ
- Date
- 26 Sep 2025