APIS Construction is a company founded in 2014, initially under the name Global Service Consulting, by a citizen named Besnik Binjakaj. But immediately after it was founded, the company suspended its activities and went into passive status.
Global Service Consulting was suspended for a full 7 years to be reactivated in 2022. Immediately after the reactivation, in June 2022, Besnik Binjakaj decided to donate his shares to a person named Ervin Tartaraj. But Tartaraj is an immigrant living in Italy. He is simply a prestanome, since the real owners of APIS are others.
And this would be confirmed only a few months later. Initially when Gloria Taçe was appointed as the company's administrator. Later Taçe became a 50 percent shareholder, and a few months later she sold the shares back to Tartaraj. All transfers of shares were made through donations, never paying taxes.
If APIS were a company doing business in the private sector, these moves would not have much significance. But APIS has begun to grow at lightning speed, winning contracts worth millions of euros from public institutions. This is because its owners are people with strong ties to the government.
The real owner of APIS is Sibjon Çobaj. Gloria Taçe, who appears as the company's administrator, is his wife. Mr. Çobaj is the nephew of Sakove. He owns a network of companies, through which he has created an effective chain of embezzlement of public funds.
Sibjon Cobaj
One of them is Sire Alb, which does public works projects, which then end up in the hands of Apis and 2T. So, the same hand does the projects and wins the tenders. This scheme has been implemented in a number of public tenders, especially in the municipalities of the South, where Apis and 2T are wreaking havoc. And Apis' business has begun to flourish.
From 7 million lek in 2022, Apis' turnover last year jumped to 86 million lek, increasing 10 times in just two years. But this year the figure is expected to increase even more as the company, together with the 2T of Sakove, is taking tenders in a series in every municipality in the South.
A large network of public funds, from project design to implementation, thus setting criteria that exclude other competitors.
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