Financing of Ervin Mata/Plug's tower: Over 28 million euros in auto-invoices for companies linked to Vilma Nushi

2026-06-25 09:19:00, Denoncim CNA

Financing of Ervin Mata/Plug's tower: Over 28 million euros in

After the first denunciation, the Plug show has continued its investigation into businesswoman Vilma Nushi, the beneficiary of the Check Up concession, who, according to the denunciation, had financed with Albanian health money the construction of a tower, which was built by Luan Mata, the father of Ervin Mata, the trafficker arrested in Brazil.

The concession contract for Check Up was signed on January 7, 2015. Meanwhile, the competition for the Check Up concession was announced in February 2014, or 11 months before the contract was signed with the company that Vilma Nushi founded a month before signing the 138 million euro concession.

Plug published exclusive documents for the first time, showing that Ilir Beqaj had decided to forgive Vilma Nushi millions of euros.

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After the signing of the concession contract in early January 2015 by the Ministry of Health and the company 3 P Life Logistic, the Public Procurement Agency refuses to publish this contract after finding serious legal violations.

According to a letter dated February 13 with protocol number 1022/3, which the Public Procurement Agency sent to the Secretary General of the Ministry of Health, Alfred Çareri, the concession contract had two serious violations. First, the contract was sent to the PPA without a protocol number and without being signed by the head of the institution.

Six days later, the Ministry of Health signs the contract notification form once again. On 19.02.2015, with letter No. 3082/29, Ilir Beqaj delegates the authority to his subordinate, Milva Ekonomi, to sign the form of the winner of the concession contract. In this letter, in addition to the signature and seal of the Ministry of Health, delegated to Milva Ekonomi, it is specified in point IV.3. that: The total value of the contract will be 13,833,000,000 lek, or about 138 million euros for ten years.

In point IV.4, it is specified: The above-mentioned value is the value of ten years taken together for the maximum number of checks for the age group 40-65 years. The real value of the contract will be lower as it will be calculated depending on the number of checks that will be carried out each year for people in the age group 40-65 years.

This form is still published today on the official website of the concessionaire registry by Open Procurement Albania.

Although the alarm about the Check Up concession was raised before the contract was signed, the first abuses of Albanian citizens' money would come to light in 2018. The Supreme State Audit conducted an audit of the Mandatory Health Care Insurance Fund, revealing how the government was giving millions of euros every year for a service it did not receive. In the summary of the report, the SAI wrote:

The audit on the monitoring of the CHECK-UP basic control contract showed that this year too, the contract projections were not achieved, causing the overpayments received from the concessionaire for the work not completed for the years 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 to reach 925 million lek. Although the SAI, in previous audits, has requested that the concessionaire be paid only for the fixed costs for the uncompleted cases and not the value of the variable costs, which do not occur in the case of an uncompleted basic control, it is found that this year too, as in previous years, it has continued, bringing an unjustified increase in the budget costs for this service.

In just three years, the government paid Vilma Nushi about 10 million euros more than it should have actually paid her.

Plug emphasizes that according to the KLSH, at the end of 10 years, Check Up can be considered a failed concession, as it has not had an impact on improving the health of Albanian citizens.

Financing Ervin Mata's tower

Financing of Ervin Mata/Plug's tower: Over 28 million euros in

Vilma Nushi's company, Marketing & Distribution, which owns the Check Up concession through the company '3P Life Logistic', also turns out to have financed the company 'Victoria Construction', which is building the Ekspozita Building tower.

Specifically, in 2018, the company 'Marketing & Distribution' transferred an amount of 1.1 million euros to the account of the company 'Victoria Construction'. The balance sheet data of the company 'Victoria Construction' does not specify the reason why Vilma Nushi owed the company such a monetary amount.

Specifically, in 2018, Vilma Nushi paid the first installment of money on behalf of Luan Mata's company. Later, in 2019, the development permit for the multifunctional building 'Ekspozita Building' was approved, located on 'Gjergj Fishta' Boulevard in Tirana. The tower, with a height of 93 meters, will have 29 floors, 24 above ground and 5 underground. The total area of ??the 24 floors will be around 42 thousand square meters and will serve as a shopping center, office and residential premises.

In the following years, the company 'Victoria Construction' removes the names of the cash donors, but what is striking is the fact that after 2019 and until 2024, the cash loans taken amounted to 8 million euros. The names of these people are not declared by Luan Mata, while no information is provided whether the company has returned the money to Vilma Nushi or whether the latter has continued to increase the investment fund for the construction of a tower, which since 2021 has been under investigation by SPAK as it is suspected that it was built with money from Ervin Mata's drug trafficking.

We recall that precisely in 2018, when Vilma Nushi declared that she had invested 1.1 billion lek in Ervin Mata's tower, she also received the first dividend from the Check Up company, worth about 1.2 billion lek, or approximately the amount she invested in a drug trafficker's tower.

Over 28 million euros in auto-invoices for companies linked to Vilma Nushi

According to the data, it turns out that at least four companies directly owned or owned by Vilma Nushi's family members have invoiced around 28 million euros, or around 40% of the total invoice that the company 3P Life Logistic has invoiced to the state budget for the Check Up concession.

According to the investigation by Plug, Marketing & Distribution, directly owned by Vilma Nushi, has benefited from around 19 million euros from the concession company through invoicing. Interlogistic, owned by Besnik and Erion Nushi, has invoiced and benefited from around 4.5 million euros.

Veramentia, another company owned by Vilma Nushi, has invoiced around 259 thousand euros, and TRIMED, owned by Vilma Nushi's brother-in-law, has invoiced over 4.6 million euros. So, it seems clear that in order to justify the expenses, the concession company takes the money from the concession and then transfers it through invoices to Vilma Nushi's other companies, in order to justify the expenses in this way.

The Marketing & Distribution company finances part of this money in the construction of the tower of the father of Ervin Mata, who was arrested in Brazil for international cocaine trafficking.

The capital circulation for the rental of premises was carried out with the company Veramentia, a company owned by citizen Vilma Nushi.

Plug points out that, in the explanatory notes to the 2018 financial statements (published in the Central Bank), this company explains that its main clients are the companies Interlogistic and 3P Life. So, in other words, Vilma has paid rent to itself.

In these same financial statements, it becomes clear that the company has distributed dividends in the amount of 46,812,653 lek or 468,126 euros. So, citizen Vilma Nushi also benefits from dividends from this company. After the investigation into this concession begins, on 26.02.2019 the company Veramentia makes a decision to go into liquidation, a decision that is deposited with the Central Bank on 25.03.2019, surprisingly within the last 30 days allowed by the law for the deposit of assembly decisions. On 14.10.2019 this company is liquidated.

In Annex 8 of the contract, point B 'Value of investment and reinvestment' it is determined that the company '3P Life' should make an investment of 21,150,000 lek in the logistics item, the value of ambulances. Based on the financial statements of the concessionaire, it has invested 134,137,219 lek in means of transport.

These vehicles were mostly purchased by Vilma Nushi's other company, namely Marketing & Distribution, and for these sales, but also for others, the concessionaire transfers capital to Vilma Nushi's company. But what was found during the commission's investigation is the fact that the vehicles, which in accounting are owned by the concessionaire and are also published in its extract, are at the same time published as points of sale for both Marketing & Distribution and Interlogistic.

This is also confirmed by the extract from the Marketing & Distribution company, where the license plates of the 39 vehicles you see on the screen are also part of both companies, namely Marketing & Distribution and 3P Life Logistic, which owns the Check Up concession.

So, based on this fact, we come to the conclusion that the sale of the vehicles is fictitious to transfer capital, because these vehicles never became the property of the concessionaire. This fictitious scheme was carried out not only to circulate capital, but also to fictitiously increase the expenses of the concessionaire company, which has paid all the expenses related to these vehicles such as insurance policies, fuel, maintenance, repairs and others that amount to 2.8 million euros.

But the most scandalous case of fictitious invoicing is that of citizen Afete Limaj. In the purchase books of the company 3P Life, the supplier Afete Alimaj is recorded with NIPT L16311205C. From the extract of the subject in the Central Register of Companies, we have recorded several facts. The object of this subject is wall plastering, formwork construction, painting. The subject started its activity on 11.01.2011 and on 20.05.2013 suspended its activity. On 16.06.2017, the subject moved from the 'suspended' status to the 'active' status. Only 15 days later, this subject invoices the concessionaire with 4 invoices in the amount of 4,487,010 lek (including VAT) or 44,870 euros.

The invoicing was made in July and an invoice on 08.08.2017 and on 10 October the entity again requested the suspension of the activity. From the entity's own publications in the Central Bank, we analyzed the 2017 financial statements for this entity and noticed that its income for this year came only from the concessionaire.

The concessionaire's actions with this entity are very suspicious, under these conditions it remains for SPAK to fully investigate the actions with this entity as well as with all other suppliers of the 3P Life company.

According to Plug, Vilma Nushi never adhered to the concession contract for the construction of laboratories, which would later remain an asset to the Albanian state. The data shows that to carry out Check Up analyses, 3P Life Logistic contracted over 16 laboratories throughout Albania, for which it spent hundreds of thousands of euros.

Another detail, also made public during the investigative commission on health concessions, was that of the purchase of 450 laptops on behalf of the Check Up concession. According to an email that went to the chairwoman of the health investigative commission, Albana Vokshi, Vilma Nushi's company purchased 450 laptops from the company Intech+, with which, according to the complaint, Vilma Nushi had a contract for the development of software and the Oracle database for Check Up. According to the contract, the company winning the tender should have been able to guarantee the maintenance of the computer system. This point disqualified other companies from the competition. But M&D did not have such a capacity either, so there was a preliminary agreement between M&D and Intech+, which received large sums from M&D for the development of the software. Subsequently, Vilma Nushi, through M&D, purchased computers from this company, while selling them to her company 3P Life Logistic at a price several times higher than she bought them./ CNA