Open Data Albania has investigated the distribution of the public contracts signed between the Municipalities and Business Companies for July 2015 – 31 January 2017, ranking them by value of contracts and gender of the company owner. Such investigation was part of the ‘Monitoring Municipality Clients in Public Contracts’ Project, supported by LevizAlbania. The investigation covered public procurement procedures that were announced and finalized from…
Criminal proceedings against murder, threats, and incitement of revenge and blood feud during 2005-2015
Open Data Albania is investigating into the volume, trend, and dynamics of criminality regarding blood feud. The analysis is based on the data of 2005-2015 regarding court proceedings and offenders punished for having committed murder for revenge or blood feud (Article 78, second paragraph, and Article 78 /a); threats of blood feud (Article 83/a), and incitement of blood feud (Article 83/b). In 2001, the Criminal…
Criminal Proceedings and Offenders Punished for Self-Made Justice 2005-2015
Open Data Albania is investigating into the volume, trend and dynamics of judicial proceedings against self-made judgement (Article 277 of the Criminal Code). An analysis is made of the period 2005-2015. Self-made judgement refers to exercising a right, which someone enjoys or claims to enjoy arbitrarily, without addressing any relevant institutions for intervention. The article reflects lack of people in the institutions or the lack…
Court Proceedings for Criminal Offences against Free Elections during 2005-2015
Open Data Albania is investigating into the trend and volume of election-related criminal offences in Albania over the last decade. The data refer to the Annual Statistical Reports of the Ministry of Justice. The current Criminal Code contains twelve articles on criminal offences and criminal contraventions that affect the electoral process. In 2012 only, the lawmakers have introduced four articles providing for new election-related criminal…
Business companies functioning as non-public Universities as of December 2015
Open Data Albania is investigating into business companies operating as Institutions of Higher Education or Non-Public Universities. The data are extracted from the database of the National Registration Centre. Such institutions operate and are regulated based on Law No. 80/2015 On higher education and scientific research in the Institutions of Higher Education in the Republic of Albania. The institutions of higher education are organized into…
Members of the High Court – their incomes declared by source for 2015
Open Data Albania ranks the High Court Judges by the incomes they have declared for 2015. Judges in the Republic of Albania are required by law to declare their wealth and conflicts of interest. Therefore, at the beginning of each year, they must submit a declaration on their incomes, and on any increase or decrease of their wealth over the last twelve months. ODA’s investigation…
AIS Expenditures 2016
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Court proceedings against high public officials for hiding and failing to declare their assets during 2005-2015
Open Data Albania is investigating whether there are statistical data about cases of court proceedings against high public officials for the criminal offences foreseen by Article 257 (a) Refusal to Declare, Failure to Declare, Hiding, or False Declaration of Assets and Private Interests of Elected Officials or Public Employees, and any other person required by law to make such declarations. There is a special law,…
Juvenile offenders punished for criminal offences during 2005-2015
Open Data Albania (ODA) is investigating the criminality trend among juveniles during 2005-2015. Such investigation is based on the Annual Statistics of the Ministry of Justice, which are processed, commented on, and analyzed by ODA. According to the Albanian legislation, the term ?juvenile? refers to any citizens, who have not reached the age of 18. For purposes of the criminal law, the minimum age for…
Court cases and criminal offenders punished for crime against property during 2005-2015
Open Data Albania is investigating into the trend and volume of criminal offences against property and other criminal offences in the economic sphere. Such criminal offences are foreseen under a specific chapter of the Criminal Code and they are divided into three sections, i.e.: Stealing of Property, Deceit, and Destruction of Property. This article focuses on the trend, volume, and dynamics of court cases regarding…
Shqiptarja.com/ List, this is where family members of politicians and judges work
Shqiptarja.com Cabinet Ministers and MPs are time and time again the object of attacks from the opposition camps regarding their wealth, but also family members assets and businesses. They accuse each other of nepotistic appointments and hiring of party militants, but in too many cases, it is the politicians’ own families who benefit from the best positions in the administration and who find it easier to find a job. “Shqiptarja.com” Newsletter has monitored last year’s…
The coefficient of performance of total budget expenditures in 2014
Expenses of the budget during 2014 was 95.2 percent or 8.19 billion lower than plan. Total actual expenditure was 437.32 billion while the initial plan was 456.40 billion year. Source: Initial Budget 2014 data obtained from the Ministry of Finance:http://www.financa.gov.al/al/raportime/buxheti/buxheti-ne-vite/buxheti-2014, downloaded 10.28.2015Details of the 2014 budget Actual expenditures were obtained from the Ministry of Finance: http://www.financa.gov.al/files/userfiles/Thesari/Treguesit_Fiskal_sipas_Buxhetit_te_Konsoliduar/treguesit_fiskal_per_2014/12_m_2014_paraprake.pdf, shkarkuar më 2/11/2015Comments and processing: ODA Source: Initial Budget…
Refugee flows, Albania Republic 2015
Source: UNHCRProcessing and comments: ODA Source: UNHCRProcessing and comments: ODA Comments and Analysis: Open Data Albania Contribution by: Griselda Ruci
Migration in Albania Region 1990-2015
Source: United Nations Population Division, World Population ProspectsProcessing and comments: ODA International migrant stock, totalSource: United Nations Population Division, World Population ProspectsProcessing and comments: ODA International migrant stock (% of population) Source: United Nations Population Division, World Population ProspectsProcessing and comments: ODA Source: United Nations Population Division, World Population ProspectsProcessing and comments: ODA Net migration Source: United Nations Population Division, World Population ProspectsProcessing and comments:…
Tenders conducted with a single competitor during July 2015 – September 2016 period
Open Data Albania is investigating on the competitiveness of tenders conducted by 61 local government units after the new territorial division and specifically those tenders, which were conducted with a single economic operator. A total of 207 procedures with a single competitor were conducted and the Limit Fund total for these procedures is worth ALL 1.9 billion. The highest number of tenders were conducted from…