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Offshore tax haven has €30 mln Albania projects cancelled over cheating authorities

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TIRANA, Dec. 11 – The ease at which a newly established Albanian company claimed two major public contracts, worth a total of €30 million, by falsifying links to a US-based parent company has unveiled the fragility of Albania’s public procurement system and non-transparent use of taxpayer money, leading to allegations of large-scale corruption which the ruling Socialists have downplayed with lack of security checks on the winning company. DH Albania, a subsidiary of US-based Dunwell Haberman, easily won public tenders to build a section of Tirana’s outer ring road for €18 million and an electricity transmission line north of Albania…

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