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The shocking revelation of Chiesi/CFO Pharma and Bioplus giant fraud scheme with drug reimbursement
2025-07-14 19:07:39 / POLITIKË
At the beginning of this year, employees of a pharmaceutical company from Italy accidentally came across the reimbursement figures for medications in Albania.
After a quick look at the data, Chiesi spa executives were alarmed by what they saw. Two of the drugs, for which Chiesi was the exclusive supplier to the Albanian market, turned out to have been reimbursed by the Albanian Health Insurance Fund, in quantities many times larger than the Italian company had supplied.
Foster and Trimbow are two medications used to treat asthma. Both of these drugs are exclusive products, meaning they have only one supplier in the Albanian market, the Italian company Chiesi.
Consequently, the reimbursement figures for these medicines by FSDKSH must fully match those sold in Albania by the Italian manufacturing company.
But according to documents obtained by Kapital, for the period 2021 to the first months of this year, the Mandatory Health Insurance Fund has reimbursed about 20 thousand more boxes of the drug Foster pump than the Italian company supplied, and tens of thousands more of the drug Trimbow.
Faced with this scandal, the Italians investigated further to understand who was harming them.
Their investigations uncovered a gigantic theft scheme with fictitious reimbursements, amounting to tens of millions of euros, centered on the company CFO Pharma, two of its satellite companies, Pharma plus and Medyx Albania, as well as two pharmacies called Bioplus and Medigreen owned by the former controller of FSDKSH, Gazmend Aliaj, previously arrested for fictitious reimbursements.
Companies involved
Pharma Plus is a pharmaceutical company founded in 2016 by a person named Agron Shehaj, a citizen born in Fier. Since its founding by Shehaj, the company has changed hands four times. All four people who have sold and bought shares of Pharma Plus are either employees or people connected to CFO Pharma of Nadir Çausholli.
Moreover, the company's address is exactly at the headquarters of CFO Pharma, as is its phone number. Although the current owner of the company on paper is Alba Zylfo, the real owner of Pharma Plus is Nadir Çausholli.
Medyx Albania is a company founded in Tirana in February 2019 by a Serbian citizen named Burim Latifi. The company later changed its name to Elartis and its shares were sold to another Serbian citizen named Muhamed Shabani.
But the company advertises itself as part of CFO Pharma as shown in the photos below and its official address is located right at the CFO Pharma headquarters.
Both companies have fallen into the Italian investigation for fictitious sales of their products. More specifically, Pharma Plus has declared an inventory of over 3,200 boxes of Foster and Trimbow, without any purchases of these products. While Medyx has declared over 16,000 boxes without making any purchases.
After having fictitiously declared these medications in their inventories, both companies, Pharma Plus and Medyx, turned out to have fictitiously sold them to CFO Pharmas. The latter fictitiously sold the medications to the Bio Plus and Medigreen pharmacies, owned by Iris Aliaj, Gazmend Aliaj's wife. For these fictitious sales, the pharmacies received reimbursement from the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund, unjustly stealing citizens' money.
Bio Plus and Medigreen pharmacies were at the center of the fictitious reimbursement scandal that erupted in 2019. At the time, the Tirana prosecution arrested Aliaj, but two months later the court eased his position with a mandatory appearance measure.
Included in FSDKSH
The approval of fictitious inventories of the companies Pharma Plus and Medyx Albania shows that FSDKSH is also involved in the scheme, up to the highest management levels.
Kapitali has learned that after the scandal broke, there have been moves in the Fund. But it is likely that this gigantic theft scheme with fictitious reimbursements, which includes many other medications beyond those two of the Italian company, will lead to mass arrests in the highest structures of the Fund, but also in the Ministry of Health.
This scandal is one of the reasons why Edi Rama has been warning in recent days about the government's direct involvement in the import of medicines. But this seems to be just another move to cover up the massive abuses and the horrific theft of public money in the health sector in all its forms.
Because even the latest scheme discovered by the Italians was made possible precisely by officials from the Ministry of Health, the Health Insurance Fund and the Tax authorities, who approved the fictitious inventories and sales of medications./ Kapitali.al
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