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"They want to break the contract"/ Shehaj: The situation with 'Bankers Petroleum' is suspicious

2025-07-04 16:26:00, Aktualitet CNA

"They want to break the contract"/ Shehaj: The situation with

Economics expert Brisida Shehaj spoke today about the issue related to the company 'Bankers Petroleum'.

Invited to the morning show on 'Syri TV', Shehaj raised suspicions that the incident occurred to break the hydrocarbon contract that this company has and for the government to take the next favorite.

"Because of some indications, that of the use of diluent for crude oil. The second indication, we had a refinery that had vital crude oil, and they were supported by many families with salaries. These two moments were the starting point that we launched a legal confrontation and control over that company. From the control in cooperation with AKBN, we forced it to pay the state profit tax. I don't believe this story of evasion. After the arbitration control, where the state won. They found some evasion of millions of euros. To enter the procedure 20 years ago, they could do it, Bankers was tolerated.

The Canadian ambassador came to my office and I was confronted very badly about the refinery. A national asset of ours, there is no investment of any kind and it is very poor. We had a very big diplomatic confrontation and we did not withdraw, only Taxes and AKBN, they did not withdraw, they actually put them in and while I was there they paid.

Then we went to arbitration, we won, in 2024 we received the arbitration decision, that formula... we created a structure of what was known and what was not known to calculate the expense. This was calculated as 50% of the profit. It was divided 50-50 with the state. The state only needs one thing, to apply that formula, that is, a minimum of 400-500 million euros in tax-profit. These people put on a show with an alleged evasion. Those are services that they have provided. Evasion is an invoice for services not performed. If they were to investigate, they would deal with the oil, that distinctive diluent, who was bringing it to Albania, what was the percentage rate, since it was pretended to be induced in the wells and then released on the market, which after a formalization action, we had over 4 thousand unregistered oil points in Albania.

Even until 2016, there was a legal confrontation, the eyes of the state, Taxes and AKBN, have seen scandals that have entered the customs ministers for the removal of fines, denunciations of letters from ministers who have tolerated these companies. Until 2016, Taxes and AKBN were eyes and ears for that company. They talk about VAT evasion, and Rim has passed all of them and left only the research to tax it. We are talking about an action, about a million evasion. We need to know how much the evasion is worth, we are talking about millions of euros. That contract apparently needs to be terminated. When the company is caught evading, it is one of the conditions for terminating contracts. With the arrival of the Chinese, after the arbitration that was abandoned by the Canadians, with a company that has a conflict with the state. The Chinese came, and then Bankers had problems that they did not pay as subcontractors. "The state has not conducted any investigation, so we will now all deal with the names, and I am suspicious of breaking the hydrocarbon contract that this company has to get the next favorite," said Shehaj./CNA

 





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