The Supreme State Audit Office warned in writing, with facts and figures, about what happened on May 6, 2026. No one listened.
The final audit report at the Security Academy, which covers the years 2022-2023, is a devastating document that shows that the Albanian state knew in detail about the rot in the food service and did nothing.
SORI-AL, the company of criminal couple Nikolin Jaka and Alma Tafani, has been supplying the Security Academy for seven years. From 2019 to today, this duo has won three consecutive contracts, without competition, with a 70 percent increase in the monthly fee.
From 47 thousand euros per month in 2019, to 80 thousand euros per month in 2025. Right in the middle of this period, in 2022-2023, the KLSH entered the Security Academy and audited the food contract. The findings were devastating.
The KLSH report found that in 44 cases, in 2022 and 2023, meals were paid for for which no record of receipt was kept. So, taxpayers' money was poured into the pockets of SORI-AL without it being proven that the food was actually served. The receiving committees signed blanks. The documentation was a farce.
Excerpt from the SAI report
The same report found that in 9 documented cases, SORI-AL invoiced more rations than were actually received by the commission. The difference ended up in the company's pocket.
The SAI was able to calculate that for these cases alone, for which it was possible to trace, the value of the abuse amounted to 9.45 million lek. The rest, untraceable due to lack of documentation, remains a mystery.
But that was not all. The SAI discovered that the Security Academy, in flagrant violation of the procurement law and the framework agreement, used the SORI-AL contract to supply food to the Police Dog Training Institute, an institution that was not a party to the contract.
For this service outside any legal provision, the state paid SORI-AL over 1.7 million lekë. Precisely for this violation, the SAI recommended a measure for compensation for damages and demanded that the officials who allowed it be held accountable.
The KLSH report left no room for equivocation. Its pages explicitly state that food management and control procedures were irregular, that an audit trail was lacking, that food vouchers were never distributed as stipulated in the contract, that minutes were kept without the number of meals, and that the admissions committees did not fulfill any of their obligations.
In short, the contract was a black hole where public money was poured in and no one controlled what happened to it.
And what did the Albanian state do after this report? Nothing. It did not terminate the contract. It did not disqualify SORI-AL from public tenders. It did not take the case to the prosecutor's office. On the contrary, it gave Alma Tafani's company its third consecutive contract, 2.8 million euros, at the highest fee in history. It rewarded it with more money for the documented violations.
The second contract, the one audited by the Albanian Supreme Audit Institution, was won by SORI-AL in August 2022 with a bid of 206 million lek, 97.92 percent of the limit fund. The only one in the competition. No competitors.
A tender classified as a red flag by Open Procurement Albania. While this tender was being held, Nikolin Jaka, the founder of SORI-AL and former deputy minister arrested for corruption, held the position of president of the Tirana Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Alma Tafani, his wife or ex-wife, signed the documents.
Today, after seven years of supply, 56 Security Academy cadets ended up in the Infectious Diseases Department of the University Hospital with massive poisoning. Vomiting, abdominal pain, serum.
Children preparing to wear the uniform of the order were laid up in hospital beds because the state entrusted their food to a couple whose violations were documented.
The SAI report is there. Available. Signed. Sealed. Every page of it describes in detail a scheme that worked in the eyes of the state and was rewarded with increasingly lucrative contracts.
The only question that remains is: how many more people need to be poisoned for the prosecution to read what the HSC has been writing for years?
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