Facts/ How Agim Ismaili abused the quality of food for prisoners

2026-01-25 10:26:00, Denoncim CNA

Facts/ How Agim Ismaili abused the quality of food for prisoners

Agim Ismaili, leaving SPAK

Former Director of Prisons, Agim Ismaili, has emerged as part of a scandal related to the time he was at the head of the General Directorate of Prisons.

His abuses and violations, during the time he was at the head of this institution, are countless, while their consequences are frightening.

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These violations become more serious when they affect not only the proper functioning of this institution, but directly the lives of prisoners.

The next scandal, which involves Agim Ismaili, the man investigated by SPAK as part of the structured criminal group that stole SPAK's investigative files, has been highlighted in a report of hundreds of pages by the Supreme State Audit Office.

What exactly is this about?

When Agim Ismaili headed the Prisons Institution, procedures were established for the supply of food products (dairy, bread and meat) to prisoners in prison institutions.

In the standard documents of this tender, a special qualification criterion is that the operator, for each motor vehicle and for the environment it uses to carry out the activity, must submit a hygiene and sanitary approval act approved by state institutions.

The scandal appears precisely here: The act in question on hygiene was issued 2 or 3 years ago, therefore not simultaneously with the implementation of the procedure and not in accordance with current events, losing the seriousness of the hygiene criterion.

This act should not have been accepted because the economic operator lacked the main qualification criterion.

"Based on the above, the KVOs have qualified the EOs, which have presented the AMHS administrative acts issued by the Ministry of Health (State Health Inspectorate) Regional Branch/Relevant District, referring to Law No. 7643 dated 01.12.1992 "On Sanitary Inspection" as amended, Article 12. The acts were issued 3 or 2 years ago, therefore not in coherence with the implementation of the procedure and not in accordance with the current situation, losing the seriousness of the hygiene criterion", the report states.

Further, the ALSHI report questioned the quality of food products for prisoners in the Penitentiary Institution.

"The KVOs have acted in violation of the Decision of the Council of Ministers no. 914 dated 29.12.2014 "On the approval of public procurement rules" amended article 66 and the DST, by declaring the EO the winner, and by questioning the quality of food and animal products for convicts in the Penitentiary Institution, financed from budgetary funds", it says, among other things.

The audit found that the food did not meet the standard due to violations in the tendering procedures. The quality of food in prisons was beyond any standard. This is also confirmed by the fact that prisoners receive large amounts of food from outside.

The SAI has found that supplies may have been made by third parties without first checking certification or compliance with the criteria.

"In the procedures for the supply of food products, deficiencies were found, weak controls as a result of the failure to establish structures dedicated to monitoring contracts; failure to foresee as contractual obligations for EOs, the elements, the type of vehicles with license plates, food certificates, transport conditions in order to maintain food safety; the commissions of the IEVPs approved at the beginning of the budget year, have risked that, by not being informed in time about the winning EO, as well as about the specific contract criteria, they have taken delivery of goods from third parties, without verifying whether or not they meet the required criteria (since it is impossible to carry out supervision, in the absence of elements to be supervised)," the report states.

This is a scandal and abuse that, in addition to the abuse of funds, which CNA will cover in another article, has put the lives of prisoners at risk, as the report clearly states that the quality of the food used for the prisoners has been questioned./ CNA