"If the investigations continue to drag on, we may have costs"/ Shehaj: Dritan Prençi defends the Tirana incinerator

2025-09-02 19:59:00, Aktualitet CNA

"If the investigations continue to drag on, we may have costs"/

Economics expert Brisida Shehaj, invited to Syri TV, spoke about the creation of the Waste Management Agency.

Shehaj said that this agency should take all incinerators under administration. Among them, Shehaj said, Tirana should be taken under administration, but in Tirana there is nothing to take under administration.

Regarding the Tirana incinerator, Shehaj said he is being defended by prosecutor Dritan Prençi.

If he had not been protected, Shehaj said, the money would have been found and the apartments that were given in exchange for the land deal would have been investigated.

Further, the expert stated that delaying the investigations could also bring financial costs, after which Mirel Mërtiri or others could take the case to Strasbourg and claim that their work has been hindered.

Shehaj also spoke about the creation of state agencies, for which he said it is still unknown what they are being created for and where these agencies will go.

" Focusing on the hands will not produce anything good unless the mentality of this government changes. The creation of this directorate should take over all that is. Fier needs at least 4-5 million euros in additional investments. It should also take over Tirana, but there is nothing to take over in Tirana. The Tirana incinerator does not perform any operations and is profitable.

As long as they are works that the state recognizes, the new agency is obliged to take them under administration. The agency will receive the money of all municipalities and will administer with that money, but it can also receive money from the state budget. Dritan Prençi defends the Tirana incinerator, saying that if it were different, the money would have been found, the towers of Tirana would have been investigated. Deposit the lands and give us apartments.

If the investigations continue to drag on, at some point Mirel Mërtiri or those other prestanomets will rise up and take us to Strasbourg, and say we would do it, but they stopped us. They have the exclusivity. If the law intervenes to take the landfills under administration, we may also have financial costs. If an agency for waste management is created, it will definitely take the landfills under administration, so that waste treatment can be done. Rama has been talking about state-owned companies for some time. We don't know what he is doing and where we will go, we will see on the road , "said Shehaj./ CNA