But due to financial problems, the pageant organizer chaired by Sherif Pacolli, Lens Production, did not purchase the licenses from the international parent contest and requested amounts of funds from the pageant winners, causing them to resign their titles and sue the organizer for such an incident.[4]
After Nikolla resignation, the organizers appointed their affiliated model, Songyl Meniqi, to join the contest in Myanmar instead.[1] However, the license of Miss Grand Albania was taken over by a Tirana-based modeling agency headed by Aleks Tanushi, Aleks Fashion Events (A.F.E.),[5][6] who later appointed a former Miss Grand Albania 2017, Klaudia Kalia, who also withdrew from the international contest due to financial conflicts with Sherif Pacolli, to represent Albania in the 2018 international edition in Myanmar.[5][7] But both of the newly appointed representatives were unplaced at the mentioned international contest.[8]
This edition was also considered the last contest that Miss Grand Albania and Miss Grand Kosovo were held in parallel; the Miss Grand Kosovo pageant was held until Sherif Pacolli discontinued the franchise in 2021,[9][10] while the Miss Grand Albania pageant was held annually by another organizer, Aleks Tanushi, until it was dissolved in 2021.[11][12]
^Syri Blue (6 May 2019). "Kush është Arlinda Prenaj". Syri GmbH (in Albanian). Archived from the original on 24 January 2022. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
