On May 27, the Tirana Court sentenced the administrator of DH Albania, Avdjol Dobi, to 9 months in prison.
He was found guilty of forging the company’s date of registration in Delaware, USA, as well as the balance sheets for 3 years, in order to win the Tirana Outer Ring project.
In January 2020, the court closed investigations into the tenders won via forgery by the ghost company DH Albania. No Albanian Road Authority (ARrSh), Transmission System Operator (OST) or National Business Center (QKB) official, whose responsibility it was to check the company’s documentation, was charged.
At the time, the prosecution told BIRN that it had found no evidence linking any public official to the forgery.
DH Albania, whose representative was 26-year old Avdjol Dobi, was registered in Albania in July 2018, as a branch of the American company Dunwell Haberman, founded on June 25, 2018, in Delaware, USA, a state well known as a tax haven.
According to the documentation filed with QKB, Dunwell Haberman stated that it was founded in 1998 and had a vast economic activity worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Following the reveal of the forgery, the Tirana Outer Ring Road tender was annulled. The call for bids opened again, this time with a modified project. The OST tender won by DH Albania was also annulled, and the company was obligated to return the funds.
