By Boldnews.al
The data provided by Boldnews.al shows that another tender was won on 21 July this year, without much noise from the company owned by the sister of the Director of Public Works in the Municipality of Tirana, Taulant Tusha.
It is a tender developed by the High School Dormitory Directorate, which is subordinate to the Municipality of Tirana for the “purchase of camera security system”.
According to the technical specifications of the winning tender, in the Dormitory Directorate, consisting of the Economic Board, Dormitory of the Tourism Hotel and the Dormitory of Electricity, 28 internal cameras and 20 external cameras would be placed with a limit fund of up to 10 million Lek (old). After the closing of the procurement procedures, the winner of this tender was announced the company ADVANCED Sh.p.k with a bid of 9.5 million ALL (old) or 95% of the limit fund.
The company, ADVANCED Sh.pk is owned by Edlira Hoxha, sister of Tirana’s public works director, Taulant Tusha, what raises questions about a possible conflict of interest in the contract procurement process. This is due to the fact that the Dormitory High School Directorate is under the control of the Municipality of Tirana.
The Law on Conflict of Interest imposes a continuous restriction on senior officials of local government units and some of their family members in relation to contracts with institutions under jurisdiction.
Annex 7 of the standard tender documents, which is related to the statement of the economic operator’s conflict of interest, provides that “a senior management official of a local government unit, a detention due to the private interests of the officer set forth in this point applies only to the conclusion of contracts, as the case may be, with the municipality, commune or district council where the official exercises these functions. This prohibition applies even when the party to the contract is a public institution, depending on this unit, “as is the Dormitory High School Directorate.
According to the NRC extract, ADVANCED Sh.pk was established in February 2008 under the name of ADVANCED SECURITY SYSTEMS, having as its object electronic projects, public safety and automated installations. It listens among its customers some of the leading companies in Albania such as Vodafone, Telecom, Tirana Bank, Intesa San Paolo, Bankers Petroleum and the Municipality of Tirana through ECO Parking.
The company’s founding act shows that at the beginning there were four shareholders, each owning 25% of the shares. Two of the shareholders, Viktor Mitrevski and Teodor Begov are Macedonian citizens, the third was Greek citizen Stefano Papazios and the fourth Albanian citizen Taulant Tusha – who is currently serving as the director of public works in the municipality of Tirana.
On May 8, 2008, Stefano Pazios and Taulant Tusha sold their quotes to Albanian citizen Edlira Hoxha for 50 thousand ALL. The civil registry records and the sales act show that Hoxha is Taulant Tusa’s eldest sister. Later, in 2010, Hoxha bought the shares of two other Macedonian partners, becoming the sole owner of the company. In 2013, the company changed its name from ADVANCED SECURITY SYSTEMS to ADVANCED Sh.pk.
Tusha has been appointed as director of public works in the municipality of Tirana in September 2015, following the election of the mayor of Erion Veliaj. Previously, he served as director of support services at the Ministry of Social Welfare and Youth – from October 2013 to September 2015, when Veliaj served as Minister.
The Directorate of Public Works is the most important directorate in the Municipality of Tirana, including in its responsibilities, besides public works and investments, procurements, road transport and civil emergencies.
This is the second case when the sister of Tusa receives a tender from the Municipality of Tirana, following the tender “Tirana Parking” that BIRN discovered a few days ago.
