Basir Çollaku
The Investment Corporation is mostly turning into a state creature, to procedurally plunder private property for the benefit of government clients. Nearly 40 thousand square meters of land, belonging to the Surreli family in Tirana in one of the most expensive areas of the capital, in the Student City area, at "Vilat Gjermane", are slipping into the hands of construction invaders, leaving the property, the owner, and their heirs out of the development process.
Document proving the theft of land
The State Cadastre Agency, the Ministry of Economy, the Albanian Investment Corporation, under the direction of the Council of Ministers, are involved in an abuse where elements of a criminal offense are clearly consumed. A criminal complaint has been filed with the Special Structure and the Tirana Prosecutor's Office.
Yesterday, the director of the Corporation, Elira Kokona, was also summoned before investigators, where numerous lawsuits await her answers. A criminal complaint has been filed for the violation of the real right of pre-emption over the construction objects known as the former "German Villas", as well as for the illegal alienation of the plot with property no. 8/552, cadastral zone 8190, Tirana, these rights legally recognized in favor of the owners.
Property certificate
The defendants are also the private entities that, with full knowledge of the property conflict and the status of the property, have become a fictitious part of the procedure "Inspectorate Corps and the New Children's Home "ZyberHallulli"" announced by the Corporation on this property, specifically: MOTUS sh.pk, in the capacity of the entity declared the winner of the procedure, as well as other private entities that have participated in the procedure, for which there are reasonable doubts that their involvement has served only for the formal fulfillment of the requirement of the minimum number of economic operators necessary for the continuation of the procedure, specifically BE - IS sh.pk, GRUPPO KONI sh.pk, PROGEEN sh.pk, DIAGONAL PROJEKTIM & ZBATIM sh.pk,
The Surreli family and its heirs have sued the institutions involved in this occupation of their property, making projects and destroying original documentation, proven after a years-long scheming. The manipulations were done for the clientelist interests of the agencies responsible.
What are the illegal actions and omissions, where the manipulation of the legal status of the property originates? The findings accompanied by concrete evidence have been forwarded as a file in a criminal complaint:
The Local Directorate of the State Cadastre Agency Tirana SOUTH intervenes and deletes data from the digital archive with no. 1048, and hides the fact that in the mortgage register with no. 5333, dated 22.11.1995, for the heirs of the former owner Ismail Sureli, Decision no. 461, dated 08.11.1995 of the KKKP is registered, which provides for the recognition of ownership for an area of 70,000 m2 in the city of Tirana, which also includes the property land with no. 8/552, cadastral zone 8190, Tirana, as well as the right of pre-emption over the buildings built on this land, known as "German Villas" at the time of their privatization.
12.01.2025 – Upon the proposal of the Ministry of Economy, Culture and Innovation, Council Decision No. 12/2025 is approved, whereby the ownership of the property land with No. 8/552, cadastral zone 8190, Tirana is transferred to the Corporation with the argument that the property card in question does not contain any note recognizing the right of pre-emption in favor of Mr. Ismail Sureli, referring to the ownership documentation made available by the State Cadastre Agency, a process carried out without our knowledge;
13.01.2025- April 2025 - Development of 2 calls for the project "New National Library Building" architectural concept idea and multifunctional development of the block of former German Villas, which have been canceled and developed without our knowledge;
24.06.2025 – The heirs submit a request to initiate privatization procedures for the buildings known as "German Villas";
06.08.2025 – The heirs submit a request for inclusion in development projects to the Corporation and for the information of MEKI;
02.09.2025 – The Ministry of Economy and Innovation, with letter no. 10638/1, addresses the Central ASHK regarding the existence of the right of pre-emption and the legal status of property no. 8/552, cadastral area 8190;
15.09.2025 – The Albanian Investment Corporation, without waiting for the clarification of our claims, publishes the public call “Inspectorate Corps and the new “ZyberHallulli” Children's Home”;
04.11.2025 – ASHK Central, with letter no. 11130/2, addresses the ASHK Tirana South Local Directorate for handling the issue and information;
11.12.2025 – The Local Directorate of ASHK Tirana South, with letters no. 7805/3, 7805/4 and 7805/5, responds and officially informs the Ministry of Economy and Innovation, as well as the Albanian Investment Corporation, regarding the fact that the heirs enjoy the right of pre-emption over the construction objects (“German Villas”), and that the failure to reflect this right was a consequence of internal mismanagement;
26.12.2025 – Operators participating in the public call are informed by us about the problems created by the Tirana South ASHK Local Directorate;
26.01.2026 – The Tirana South ASHK Local Directorate, after a series of requests and complaints, re-registers the right of pre-emption in the property card no. 8/552;
29.01.2026 – The Albanian Investment Corporation announces the winner of the competitive procedure.
So, 1 (one) month and a half after the decision to inform the DV ASHK Tirana Jug that the heirs enjoy property rights according to Decision no. 461/1995, a decision which is registered in the mortgage register no. 5333, dated 22.11.1995, which includes the confirmation of ownership of the land and the right of pre-emption of the German Villas, as well as 3 days after the re-registration of the right of pre-emption.
They take private property and try to sell it as a public interest investment, without involving the owners, neither as an expropriation nor as part of the investment, where client companies benefit tens of millions of euros, while the landowners only see the news.
Consequently, through this mechanism that the Albanian Investment Corporation is pursuing, heirs are penalized threefold:
first, by not receiving financial compensation from the Property Treatment Agency, as they have chosen not to waive their right of pre-emption;
secondly, through the violation and de facto disappearance of this right by the Albanian Investment Corporation;
thirdly, because no regular legal procedure for compensation or expropriation was followed, in accordance with Law No. 8561, dated 22.12.1999, “On expropriations and temporary use of private property for public interest”, as amended. Of course, the Council of Ministers, with its decisions, is part of the institutions that enabled this alienation.
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