DOCUMENT/ The first export trace of KURUM's hazardous waste since 2018

2024-12-26 12:51:45 / AKTUALITET ALFA PRESS

DOCUMENT/ The first export trace of KURUM's hazardous waste since 2018

Inside Story has published another document in which it is reported that the accusations about the dubious business relationship between the Sokolaj family and Kurum International date back very early.

There is talk again about the export of waste generated by Metallurgy.

These illegal transfers start in 2018 referring to a court decision that reveals the activity.

This decision seems not to have fallen into the hands of KTA, which informed us that the first load was transferred in 2020.

So the state has not coordinated to reveal the full truth. In fact, the data has not been served in full after the last scandal.

The entity Kurm International sh.a has not made available the waste transfer forms that it carried out with the entity Sokolaj SH.PK

So it is not known where the hazardous waste ended up. If they have not been exported, then they may have been dumped somewhere in the environment.

Bashkim Tereziu, the sole partner of the company Albania Trans International, has accused Gjovana Sokolajt's company and a Turkish company of fraud.

The company headed by Tereziu concluded a contract with the Turkish company Ferroex Madencilik VE for the sale of 3000 tons of zinc dust. The Albania Trans company bought this amount from Kurum, as the only company in Albania that offers such a service. Everything was done with documents, even with the product analysis report dated 23 06 2018. The product turns out to have 0% moisture.

The ATI company has withdrawn 2,763 tons of zinc powder that were taken and loaded in the port of Durrës by the Ferroex company. According to the contract, 264 tons were to be sent on a second route.

The Turks requested that the rest of the remaining goods be deposited and stored in Fllaka, Durrës, at the SCHOLZ company.

The 264-ton cargo had to be stored until it was taken by ship from the Ferroex company.

During this period, Fabian Tereziu, the son of the owner of the ATI company, was informed that the cargo of 264 tons was being transported to the Port of Durrës, while the owner of the goods was not informed about the movement, nor had he received the payment for the deposited goods.

According to the agreement, the cargo of 254 tons of zinc dust owned by the company ATI, deposited near the premises of the company SCHOLZ, had to stay there until it was taken by ship from the company Ferroex, according to the contract, after the payment was made.

Fabian Tereziu learned at the port that the waste was loaded by the Albanian company FLORESTER METALIK SHPK. Based on the CKB extract, this company was run by Gjovana Sokolaj who manages 50% of the shares, while the other half is under the name of the Turk Serdar Can Hakliol. So, the name of this Turkish non-citizen close to Kurum reappears in partnership with Sokolaj.

According to the information provided at the port, Fabian Tereziu learned that the Florester company had submitted the customs declaration for the export of 800 tons of zinc powder. The Florester company bought the amount of 498 tons from Kurum, while Tereziu suspected that he got the other amount from the zinc dust stored by the SCHOLZ company.

This is another company owned by the Sokolaj family with Gjovana Sokolaj resulting in KKB with 25% of the shares, while the other 25% is owned by Doni Sokolaj.

So, it is claimed that the goods deposited by one of the companies of the Sokolaj family were sold by one of their companies without the approval of the Tereziu family.

The charge was appropriated with the excuse that the purchased material had moisture.

Such a move was made because according to the claims of the Turk Ahmet Ozgultekin, the goods of 2763 tons of zinc dust received by the ATI company resulted in 16.77% moisture. But preliminary documents indicated that the humidity was actually 0%.

In this form, he has given himself the right to the goods deposited in the SCHOLZ company. He then reached an agreement to sell it to Gjovana Sokolaj, who claims that she became the owner of the goods without making any payment.
Gjovana Sokolaj, on 18.08.2018, i.e. 8 days after fictitiously buying 264 tons of zinc from the Turkish company Ferroex, at the price of 76 dollars/ton, sells zinc to this same company at a price of 83 dollars/ton, outside of any kind of economic logic .
The lawsuit filed for fraud by ATI with owner Bashkim Tereziu has been dismissed, as the Durrës District Court has accepted the claim of the Prosecution, which it does not consider as a fact or a criminal offense.

Despite the dubious business between Sokolaj and the Turkish company, in the case claimed by the Tereziu family, they managed to avoid possible legal problems.

Despite this, what is related to our history and the shipment to Thailand is the fact that Sokolaj shpk, among the main company, or other companies that are managed by them, have an early commercial history with Kurum for the transportation of hazardous waste.

In the case of this fraud lawsuit, it is known from the details of the file that the commercial relations between these firms have started to be under the magnifying glass of justice since 2018./ Inside Story 

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