TIRANA, Jan. 24 – The country’s Tirana court ruled on Wednesday it will issue an arrest warrant for Avdjol Dobi, the 26-year-old DH Albania representative which managed, through forged documents, to win two public tenders worth almost 30 million euros from the government.
The decision was taken following the prosecution’s request and comes only a month and a half after the scandal was made public by News 24 show ‘the Unexposed.’
During this time, justice authorities had only asked for Dobi to be present in order to provide explanations, but were not able to contact him. According to the TIMS system, which registers entries and exits from the country, Dobi does not turn out to have exited the country but local media writes he has probably left Albania a long time ago.
The company DH Albania was registered in Albania only in July last year as a branch of Delaware-based Dunwell Huberman, registered in the US just a month prior.
However, in the documents that Dobi submitted on behalf of the company for the two competitions held in the fall of 2018 – for the construction of a lot of the Great Ring Road project and an energy line – US Dunwell Haberman was supposedly founded in 1998.
Albanian authorities immediately canceled both projects while looking to assign blame elsewhere by stating that, formally, DH Albania had submitted legal papers and that state institutions had no reason to suspect and consequently verify the originality of the documents.
However, additional facts secured by the Voice of America proved that, at least in issuing DH Albania’s a construction license, Albanian institutions were put in the company’s service, initiating the issuing proceedings five days prior to the company’s registration at the National Business Center, so while it was still an inexistent entity.
Additional facts ungrounded by a number of media and analyzed by the Voice of America further alleged that Dobi only served as the company’s facade and that famous business oligarch Bashkim Ulaj, also related to Dobi, is really behind the offshore company.
Employees of Ulaj’s ‘Gener 2’ company result to have legally acted on behalf of DH Albania.
Earlier in the week, the government announced it will be cancelling a major PPP awarded to Ulaj’s ‘Gener 2’ under the claim it would channel funds in public universities, however Ulaj’s involvement with the DH Albania scandal is thought to have been the main reason behind the decision.
