The Special Prosecution against Corruption (SPAK) took as defendant this Friday the vice Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure, Belinda Balluku.

In a short statement for the media, SPAK clarified that Balluku is under investigation for the procedures of Llogara tunnel tender for violation of equality in tenders.

“In the context of the investigation of this criminal proceeding, today, on 31.10.2025, the defendant Belinda Balluku, with the high state function, Minister of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy, was notified of the charges against her, accused of committing the criminal offense, “Violation of equality of participants in tenders or public auctions”, in collaboration, provided for by articles 258/2 and 25 of the Criminal Code," says statement.

"Up to this stage of the preliminary investigation, the criminal facts, the subject of the charges against the defendant Belinda Balluku, relate to her actions, in her capacity as Minister of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy, for one of the procurement procedures, the subject of this investigation, “Construction of the Llogara tunnel”, on the Orikum-Himarë road section, part of the SH8 highway (Vlorë-Sarandë), conducted on 11.12.2020 and after its cancellation, the procedure is reopened on 22.6.2021, with a limited fund, 18 967 810 952.08 (eighteen billion nine hundred sixty-seven million eight hundred ten thousand nine hundred fifty-two (point) zero eight) lek excluding VAT," SPAK emphasizes.