
The Civic Center has reacted to the investigations that SPAK has conducted at the Agricultural University of Tirana, filing charges against 28 people, lecturers, academic staff and businessmen.
SPAK's investigation has revealed the scheme of how the winners in tenders were predetermined, totaling 90 million lek.
In a reaction, the Civic Center states that the criminalization of universities has already been discovered.
"Two days ago, SPAK requested two years in prison for Arben Gjata, former Rector of the University of Medicine, while this Saturday, SPAK finalized the investigations regarding tender abuses at the Agricultural University of Tirana and has indicted 28 people, including lecturers, academic staff and businessmen.
Operating as a structured criminal group, lecturers, academic staff, and entrepreneurs in nine tenders held during 2022, worth around 90 million lek, committed violations from the project preparation phase to the announcement of the determined winners.
"The Civic Center commends the investigations by SPAK at the Agricultural University and demands that the investigations be extended to the University of Tirana and Public Universities in districts that have become hotbeds of corruption and nepotism," the Civic Center's response states.
It is further emphasized that "Civic Resistance spent a few months ago analyzing the expenses of 7 Public Universities during the 2023-2024 academic year, which resulted in them spending 87.9 million Euros."
"The scan showed that millions of euros were allocated for security tenders, with universities taking the lion's share, as if universities were like banks."
These security tenders must definitely go through the scrutiny of SPAK because the risk of being faced with predetermined tenders is high.
Meanwhile, the vast majority of the fund goes to salaries, where even though 60,000 students lost their jobs in the last decade, they continue to inflate their own fees and remuneration," the reaction emphasizes.
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