SCANDAL involving the children at the Infant Home!

One of the most blatant examples of abuse of public funds is happening in Vlora, where the Infant Home, an institution that according to official data has not had any children in care since 2023, continues to consume substantial amounts from the state budget every month, as if it were still a functional and necessary structure for the community.

Financial documents reveal an unbelievable reality: around 11 million old lek are paid every month for a building where no child lives, is treated, or cared for. On paper, the institution appears active. On the ground, it is a silent, closed building, without sound or life, for more than a year.

Nevertheless, despite the service no longer existing, salaries continue to be paid without interruption.

More than 10 employees receive monthly wages, even though the institution no longer performs any function. Every month, the state pays an administration for a structure that in reality has nothing to manage.

But the most absurd, shocking, and insulting part for citizens is that security guards are still being paid to “protect” an empty building. The payments reach 970,000 old lek per month, just to guard the walls and doors of a building with no active staff, no children, and no work process.

This is not the first time the Infant Home in Vlora has been at the center of abuses. An investigative program a few years ago revealed that the institution had spent 700,000 old lek on car servicing, even though it did not own any vehicle.

So, financial abuses in this institution are not new; they have simply been covered up and forgotten over the years.

According to the most recent information, the institution currently does not have a director. The names reported years ago have left, resigned, or no longer appear in the latest documents. There is no official notice of a new director, nor any public communication from the Vlora Municipality or other responsible institutions.

And this raises the most important question: if there is no director, who signs, who controls, and who manages the funds?

Ironically, this scandal occurs at a time when dozens of Albanian families live on the edge of survival. In Vlora and across the country, there are families who cannot secure even basic food, while the state spends millions on a non-functional building just to keep alive an administrative structure that exists only on paper.

“KORÇA BOOM”