Last year the Albanian Government canceled the tender relating to three oil sources in Albania because the winning company was accused of its ties with the Russians. But the company that won the tender this year it turns out also to be related to the Russians.
The "Të paekspozuarit" show on Top Channel published an email where Transoil Group exchanges infrormation with Gasprom. What you see here is a verbal note, written by Shefqet Dizdari, administrator of Transoil Group, and also owner of several curency exchange stores in Tirana.
The letter was sent to Vuk. Russian Executive Director of Russian Gazprom, Vladislav Baryshnikov. Among the lines of this paper is that the Transoil Group Administrator was pleased with the meeting he had held in St. Petersburg with the Deputy Director of Gazprom while talking about cooperation between each other.
"TransoilGroup has never hidden the interest and the intention to establish an open, stable and trans parent business relationship with Gasprom or your associates like Naftna Idustrija Srbje in Novi Sad, with which we have signed an agreement," reads the mail.
If the same standard were to be applied, then the Albanian government should cut off the agreement with the Transoil Group becaouse of the links to Russian Gazprom, just as did with Jurimex Kommerz.