The VLEN coalition has opened one of the heaviest public corruption accusations of recent years. They claim that millions of euros from the state budget ended up with individuals and firms close to Ali Ahmeti and Bujar Osmani - two leading figures in DUI. The main pointed finger: „fictitious contracts and undelivered obligations" over the years, through the project for interconnection with Albania.

Concretely, VLEN highlighted the case of MEPSO - the state-owned electricity transmission company - which was ordered to pay 6 million euros in damages to Bosnia's „Energoinvest". The reason - a unilaterally cancelled contract to build a transmission line. The accusation: that wasn't a bad decision, it was a deliberate scenario, where the failure of the contract meant the money would be redirected to other firms, more „friendly" in disposition.

The weight of the accusation isn't only in the millions. It is in the scheme. „DUI defends private interests", VLEN says, „the interconnection project was for pumping out money". In translation that means: a state project, supposedly for infrastructure, turned into a pipeline for private enrichment. If that gets confirmed with documents - not just statements - then this isn't a political fight, it is a crime with named actors.

What is DUI's answer. So far - no direct reaction. The party has been in opposition since 2024, and this isn't the first accusation of its kind. But the timing is interesting - VLEN steps forward with this precisely while it is in the governing coalition with VMRO-DPMNE, at the moment it needs to prove that part of the change in power also means a settling of accounts with the old schemes. Without that settling, the new coalition looks like a variant of the old one.

For citizens, this is not a „political story". 6 million euros in damages is public damage. That money could have gone to schools, hospitals, roads. Instead, it went out as a penalty for a bad or deliberate decision. And none of those who took it carries the consequences. This is what the Balkans calls „politics" - but it is, at its core, a methodical breakdown of public institutions.

The question everyone is waiting for: will VLEN stop at statements, or will it deliver documents to the Public Prosecution Office? Statements don't build a case. Documents build it. Without the second, the first have a shelf life of about a single season.