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The inspectorate that was set up to make public the assets of officials has become a shield for corruption; the EU and US-funded project for online declarations has failed, while the official website is out of order...
The High Inspectorate for Asset Declaration and Control has been transformed into a real "bunker" where Albanian politics hides billions of euros of undeclared assets.
The institution that was supposed to be a guarantor of transparency and a weapon against corruption, today serves as a shield for politicians and senior officials, keeping their financial statements isolated.
Since 2018, with funding from USAID and the European Union of over half a million euros, an electronic system was set up to make asset declarations public online. The project was presented as a revolution in transparency, but the reality is quite different: the system has failed, the institution's website frequently crashes, and publishing assets is impossible even when official written requests are made.
In practice, HIDACPKI has hidden the information instead of opening it. Anyone who might try to access the HIDACP website today will not have access. The website has been down for several days and the reasons are unknown.
The European Commission's latest report on the rule of law (2025) strongly condemns this situation. Brussels notes that asset declarations "are not publicly accessible and require authorization from the inspectorate itself."
Furthermore, HIDACCI verifies only a small percentage of forms, does not apply risk analysis, and has not identified any cases of conflict of interest during 2024. Meanwhile, high-level officials remain unaffected, while the few reports have been addressed to former officials or low-level individuals.
Although the institution has been paid millions of international euros, the results are anemic. In its 2024 report, the HIDAKKI declared only 23 cases of criminal charges, of which only one was referred to SPAK. This ridiculous number contradicts the reality of a country where corruption is ubiquitous and where international reports describe the illegal enrichment of politicians as a fundamental problem of the state.
Instead of being an open door to citizens, the HIDAKKI has turned into a concrete bunker, where politicians' assets are hidden, protected and archived away from the public eye. / Pamphlet
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