Unable to find or contact the defendants in the Tirana incinerator case, including the two defendants as its actual owners, Mirel Mërtiri and Klodian Zoto, the Special Court Against Corruption and Organized Crime has issued a notice of appeal for the defendants.
The defendants have been given a security measure of "prison arrest" in absentia, but because the measure has not been executed, the court has not been able to notify them of the ongoing process against them.
Therefore, in addition to other methods of notification, the court has deemed it necessary to display the notification act to the defendant, in order to effectively notify him of the date and time of the preliminary hearing.
Thus, the Court orders: The posting of the notification act on the website and the notice corner of the Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime, for the defendants: Mirel Mërtiri, Klodian Zoto, Dashamir Ymeraj, Giuseppe Ciaffaglione, Denisa Tollkuçi, Marc Richard Lappat, Michael Peter Drujits, Ilir Dedja, the legal entity “Integrated Energy BV SPV” sh.pk and “Integrated Technology Service” sh.pk. In this way, the court notifies the defendants that the preliminary hearing will take place at the Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime, Tirana, on 06.11.2026, at 09:30.
The defendants are charged with the criminal offenses of "Active corruption of high-ranking state officials or local elected officials", "Fraud with serious consequences", "Laundering of proceeds of crime or criminal activity", committed in special cooperation within the framework of a structured criminal group, "Structured criminal group", "Commitment of criminal offenses by a criminal organization and a structured criminal group". SPAK's investigations have revealed that the "de facto" owners of the concession company "Integrated Energy BV SPV" sh.pk, the defendants Mirel Mërtiri and Klodian Zoto, have benefited from millions of euros by using the mechanism of withdrawing monetary amounts from the accounts of the concession company, thanks to fraud through the creation of fictitious invoices, thanks to the use of fictitious companies created inside and outside the country, as well as through cash transfers, in the amount of 1,283,390,609 lekë and 16,669,506 euros.
The investigation has revealed the fact that in order to achieve the criminal purpose of laundering money, as products of the criminal offense of fraud, the defendants Mirel Mërtiri and Klodian Zoto acted in special cooperation in the form of a structured criminal group, collaborating with Albanian citizens, the defendants Denisa Tollkuçi, Arjola Kodra, Dashamir Ymeraj, Renardo Nallbani, Elton Bualli, Ilir Dedja, as well as foreign citizens, the defendants: Marc Lappat, Michael Peter Druijts, Giuseppe Ciafaglione.
