A foretold event/ Nikolin Jaka and Alma Tafani; the food cartel that poisoned 56 Security trainees, the state fed them with €22 million
56 students of the Security Academy in Sauk were urgently sent to the Infectious Diseases Department of the QSUT, poisoned by lunch served in the premises of the institution where future law enforcement officers are trained. Vomiting, severe abdominal pain, serum after serum. Children who have chosen to wear the state uniform were lying in hospital beds because the Albanian state is not able to guarantee them even the basic right to safe food.
Within 24 hours, Tirana police arrested Kujtim Ballgjini, 52, the chef who prepared the poisoned food, and Kristjana Plaka, 23, a food technologist, in flagrante delicto. Another technologist, 35, was acquitted. But these three are merely pawns in a criminal machine that has been holding the health of Albanians and the pockets of taxpayers hostage for more than two decades.
Above them stand two names that should have been in chains for years: Alma Tafani, administrator and sole partner of the SORI-AL company, declared wanted and disappeared without a trace, and Nikolin Jaka, the founder of this rotten empire, former deputy minister arrested for corruption, who today holds the position of president of the Tirana Chamber of Commerce and Industry as if nothing had happened.
The pamphlet has been warning about this atrocity for years. Article after article, denunciation after denunciation, we have shown who this criminal couple is, how they stole, how they deceived, how they bought the silence of the institutions. No one reacted. No prosecutor opened a file. No institution withdrew the contracts. Everyone is reacting now, after 56 trainees were hospitalized. Everyone is expressing concern. Everyone is promising investigations. Complete and disgusting hypocrisy.
Now let's see who these two characters really are that the Albanian state has been nurturing for 25 years in a row.
Nikolin Jaka began his long career in corruption not as a merchant, but as Deputy Minister of Transport and Public Works. In 2007, he was arrested for corruption and abuse of office, accused of using realtors to fix the tenders for the next six months. He spent 227 days in detention. The moment he left his cell, he did what every petty criminal does: he hid behind his wife. The shares of the SORI-AL company, which he founded in 2002, he transferred 100 percent to Alma Tafani. His wife. His ex-wife. His cohabitant. Call her whatever you want, it doesn't matter. The important thing is that Albanian law prohibits people with criminal convictions from participating in state tenders, but it does not prohibit their wives. A trick as primitive as the insult that these two make to the Albanian state every day.
Shteti jo vetëm që nuk i ndëshkoi, por u hapi dyert dhe arkat.
Deri më sot, SORI-AL dhe kompanitë e lidhura me Tafanin kanë marrë nga Thesari i Shtetit Shqiptar mbi 2.2 miliardë lekë, rreth 22.7 milionë euro, në më shumë se 1200 transaksione. Janë para që kanë dalë nga xhepat e shqiptarëve dhe kanë përfunduar në xhepat e një dysheje kriminale që vepron e pandëshkuar prej njëzet e pesë vjetësh.
Në vitin 2022, SORI-AL fitoi tenderin për furnizimin ushqimor të Akademisë së Policisë me vlerë 2.5 miliardë lekë, 99.99 për qind e fondit limit. Praktikisht pa garë fare. Kush e firmosi? Endri Mullai, drejtues i Agjencisë Shtetërore të Prokurimeve të Përqendruara, nën mbikëqyrjen e ministrit të Brendshëm të kohës, Bledar Çuçi.
Në tetor 2023, QSUT i dha SORI-AL një kontratë prej 850 milionë lekësh pa TVSH përmes negociimit të drejtpërdrejtë. Pa garë fare. Kush e firmosi? Albana Fico, ish-kunata e kryeministrit Edi Rama, në atë kohë drejtoreshë e QSUT-së.
Spitali Psikiatrik i Vlorës i akordoi SORI-AL 302 milionë lekë, 95 për qind e fondit limit, me vetëm dy konkurrentë në garë. Bashkia e Tiranës i dha kësaj dysheje 1.2 miliardë lekë në tendera ushqimi, qumështi dhe bulmeti. Dhe kjo nuk është as gjysma e listës.
Por kush është në të vërtetë Alma Tafani?
Alma Tafani nuk është thjesht pronarja e SORI-AL. Alma Tafani është një ''oktapod'' që ka shtrirë krahët në çdo institucion që merr para nga buxheti i shtetit. Zotëron gjithashtu 100 për qind të AGS, një kompani pastrimi dhe lavanterie që ka marrë tender pas tenderi nga QSUT. Katër tendera radhazi, të gjitha pa garë, me vlera 22.3 milionë, 66.5 milionë, 30.8 milionë dhe 108.4 milionë lekë. Zotëron AgroAl International për tregtimin e ushqimeve. Ka në pronësi 50 për qind të AGRO INTEXO dhe ZEPA GROUP për qumësht dhe blegtori.
Dhe më pas vjen KPL, kompania që formalisht mbahet nga njëfarë Ramazan Troka që nga viti 2008, por që hetimet gazetareske e kanë ekspozuar si kompani të kamufluar të Tafanit. Një rrjet i tërë, një perandori e ndërtuar mbi paratë publike, me pronarët e vërtetë të fshehur pas një labirinti kompanish dhe emrash të tretë.
Nikolin Jaka, nga qelia e korrupsionit te karrigia e dhomës së tregtisë
Nikolin Jaka, arkitekti i kësaj perandorie, qëndron në hije. I pastër në letra, pis në realitet. Kryetar i Dhomës së Tregtisë dhe Industrisë së Tiranës, një post që e mban si mburojë prestigji ndërsa bashkëshortja e tij administron miliarda lekë nga shteti. I arrestuar në 2007 për korrupsion, i liruar në 2008, fitues i një padie për dëmshpërblim nga shteti në 2012, Jaka nuk ka humbur asnjë ditë nga puna e tij e vërtetë: shndërrimin e parave publike në pasuri private. Shteti e arrestoi, shteti e liroi, shteti e dëmshpërbleu dhe shteti vazhdon t'i japë miliona euro përmes gruas së tij.
When the bodies of the trainees were still in the hospital, the AKU came out with the announcement that 85.9 kilograms of food were blocked at the Security Academy. They blocked 67.3 kilograms of products and 1350 eggs at the "Skënderbej" Garrison. They took samples for analysis. They issued two fines of 100 thousand lek each. 200 thousand old lek in total for a company that has benefited from 2.2 billion lek from the state. And do you know what they were fined for? For the lack of a traceability system.
Meanwhile, in December 2025, the laundry and kitchen workers of the QSUT, employees of Tafan's companies, went on strike. Their salaries had not been paid. On Christmas and New Year's Eve, the women who clean the country's largest hospital and feed the sick were left without a single lek. The company that received billions from the state did not pay its employees. And the state did nothing. No control. No measures against contracts. No responsibility taken. Employees retreated, Tafan with full pockets, Jaka intact in his Chamber of Commerce office.
The Tirana Prosecutor's Office says that investigations are continuing. But what investigations are needed? The evidence is public. The tenders are documented. The connections are exposed. The poisoning of 56 trainees is not a new crime but the logical end of an ongoing crime that has been going on for years and has not stopped for a day.
Alma Tafani and Nikolin Jaka are the faces of this crime. But the hands that have fed them are the hands of the Albanian state. The same hands that today pretend to seek justice. / Taken from the Pamphlet
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