Ownership as documented
Per OCCRP as quoted by exit.al (2020): Olsi Rama co-owner; Amant Josifi sold his shares in December 2017. Whether Olsi Rama still held a stake is not stated. QKB (Albanian business registry) record not retrieved; ownership not publicly documented in the retrieved sources.
Former co-owner (reported)
Evidence: Exit.al (6 Mar 2020) quoting OCCRP: Olsi co-owned Pegasus Communications Shpk until Josifi sold his shares in December 2017.
Description
Described by exit.al (6 Mar 2020, quoting OCCRP) as a telecommunications and telemarketing firm co-owned by Olsi Rama until Amant Josifi sold his shares in December 2017. Exit.al (2017) also describes Endri Meksi as a former co-administrator. No registry record for this company was retrieved. A procurement record for a company named Pegasus SHPK (NIPT J62903750A, a medical reagents supplier in Tirana, per openprocurement.al) was found, but the name match alone does not establish that it is the same company.
Contracts and money
Figures recorded for the cases linked to this organisation. A figure here is not necessarily paid to or by this organisation; check payer and payee.
Exit.al projected total tariff income for the 30-year gambling-monitoring concession (article calculation, not contract value)
€56,970,000
concessionSource label: Under investigationStated definition: Projection calculated in the exit.al article (about EUR 1,899,000 a year x 30). Not a contract value. The article's lottery line is internally inconsistent (425 locations at EUR 1/day is about EUR 155,000 a year, not EUR 153,000). Payers are licensed gambling businesses through a tariff.
Date: 18 Jan 2018 · Payer: Licensed gambling operators (lotto, sports betting, electronic casinos, national lotteries), via tariff · Payee: MC Networking shpk consortium (per exit.al)
- Rama's Family Takes Control over Gambling Industry (opens in a new tab)exit.al · 18 Jan 2018 · journalism · EN
Exit.al projected annual tariff income for the monitoring concession (article calculation)
€1,899,000
concessionSource label: Under investigationStated definition: Article's own sum of tariffs: lotto and sports betting about EUR 756,000; electronic casinos about EUR 990,000; national lotteries about EUR 153,000 (see the note on the lottery line in the 30-year entry).
Date: 18 Jan 2018 · Payer: Licensed gambling operators, via tariff · Payee: MC Networking shpk consortium (per exit.al)
- Rama's Family Takes Control over Gambling Industry (opens in a new tab)exit.al · 18 Jan 2018 · journalism · EN
Officials and people linked
Former co-owner (reported)
Evidence: Exit.al (6 Mar 2020) quoting OCCRP: Olsi co-owned Pegasus Communications Shpk until Josifi sold his shares in December 2017.
Co-owner until Dec 2017 (reported)
Evidence: Exit.al (6 Mar 2020) quoting OCCRP: Josifi sold his shares in December 2017.
Investigations and cases
Sorted by reported money, then by linked people and their legal status. The money figure is the largest single reported figure, not a total.
From 12 Jan 2017
MC Networking shpk: 30-year gambling-monitoring concession and reported Olsi Rama link
A public concession, not a call-center matter. Per exit.al (16 Mar 2017), the government ran a tender in January 2017 (opened 12 Jan, extended to 23 Jan) for a Central Online Monitoring System (SQMO)…
Status: Concession awarded (per exit.al, 2017). Ownership claims disputed or conflicting in reporting. Current status of the concession not found.
From Dec 2017
Olsi Rama and call centers: documented link limited to a 2020 reported former co-ownership; other claims are unproven political allegations
MAIN CASE. No registry record, court decision, SPAK document or police finding was retrieved that shows Olsi Rama owning, managing or financing a call-center company. The one documented-as-reported…
Status: No charge or call-center finding against Olsi Rama in retrieved sources. Pegasus link reported (2020, unverified). Josifi investigation ongoing or unresolved;…
From 4 Mar 2020
Amant Josifi and the Milton Group call-center network (Albania)
Related case, not about Olsi Rama directly. OCCRP and Dagens Nyheter reporting (2020) named Amant Josifi, then an adviser to the Defence Minister, as owner of a Tirana call center tied to the Milton…
Status: Wanted (Spain warrant, reported Dec 2022). Later status not confirmed.
Sources for this record
Every source the research cites for this record, grouped by its source label. 2 sources.
Source label: UnverifiedUnverified · 2 sources
- Publisher
- exit.al
- Date
- 6 Mar 2020
- Publisher
- exit.al
- Date
- 16 Mar 2017