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In the Prosecution's file, this episode is treated as a case of tax evasion and the use of Puka's company by Bankers for fictitious invoices to inflate expenses, while also benefiting from VAT reimbursement.
As we reported in an article in July last year, the Fier Prosecutor's Office has now confirmed the involvement of the former director of Albpetrol, Endri Puka, in a corruption and money laundering affair with the Bankers company, which represents the largest extortion in the history of Albania. In the Prosecutor's Office's file on the 5.5 billion euro 'hole' of Bankers, it is evidenced that the company AKSENT L&BC, with main owner and administrator Endri Puka, has made suspected fictitious invoices for Bankers, benefiting 1.4 million euros.
In the Prosecution's file, this episode is treated as a case of tax evasion and the use of Puka's company by Bankers for fictitious invoices to inflate expenses, while also benefiting from VAT reimbursement.
But the facts and circumstances show that we are dealing with a genuine corruption affair. Endri Puka, as the deputy of the former Pasha of the South, Koço Kokëdhima, was the administrator of Albpetrol during the period 2014-2018. Several reports of the High State Audit, media investigations and evidence have shown that Endri Puka, as director of the state oil company, has favored Bankers, causing billions of lek economic damage to the Albanian state.
Puka was even suspended from duty by court order and later dismissed after favoring the private company "Phoenix" with oil fields. As director of Albpetrol, Puka was tasked with overseeing oil concessions. The main concessionaire was Bankers, who caused havoc with explosions, smuggling, investments, etc.
In return, Bankers allegedly fabricated the 1.4 million euro payment to Endri Puka. A year after his dismissal, Puka founded the company AKSENT L&BC, with the purpose of conducting business analysis and strategies, with which he embezzled 1.4 million euros from Bankers.
Equally blatant is the involvement of former Socialist MP (2017-2021), Alket Hyseni, who has benefited from 6 million euros from Bankers for services suspected of being fictitious, through his law firm H&A Law Firm, administered by his brother-in-law, Idajet Çelaj. The law firm, founded by Hyseni's retired father, Namik Hyseni, has also been implicated in property extortion in the south of the country, when Hyseni led the task force set up by Prime Minister Edi Rama to verify the illegal alienation of state properties.
Hysen's mandate as a deputy ended in 2021. In October 2022, Hysen received 51% of the shares of the law firm and in 2024 100% of the shares. Hysen, who started his career 25 years ago as a customs officer in Kakavija, became the general director of the Directorate for the Prevention of Money Laundering in 2016 and a year later an MP. There are strong suspicions that Hysen, in this position, has ascertained the massive money laundering by Bankers, confirmed by the Fier Prosecutor's Office.
Instead of reporting to the Prosecutor's Office, Hyseni is suspected of having entered into a bargain with Bankers, sharing part of the money. The Prosecutor's Office's investigation has revealed that Bankers has given 6 million euros to Alket Hyseni through his law office from 2014 to 2025. It remains to be seen whether Hyseni, even as a deputy, has favored Bankers. It is not clear what other evidence SPAK is waiting for to withdraw Bankers' criminal file, with additional charges of corruption and criminal group. /Prapaskena
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