The 90 minutes of Prime Minister Edi Rama's stay in the same room with the head of the Special Prosecution Office, Klodian Braho, were not as peaceful as the statement issued after the National Security Council meeting, Bajram Begaj's press office, tried to portray.
At the Monday meeting that Rama himself requested from the US, following the unprecedented scandal of the head of the State Intelligence Service being put at the service of organized crime, the President also invited the head of SPAK, Klodian Braho.
What he expressed publicly in Rinas, regarding the treatment of Vlora Hyseni, requesting an arrest measure for the acting head of the secret services, seems to have been expressed by Rama also in the meeting held behind closed doors at the Brigades Palace.
Lapsi.al learns from internal sources that the head of SPAK has insisted that placing Hyseni under "house arrest" was a necessary measure due to the strong implication she had in the criminal group led by businessman Ergys Agasi.
The same sources confirmed to Lapsi.al that the head of SPAK has stated before members of the National Security Council that SHISH had gone so far as to engage in illegal wiretapping of the immediate family members of the two Special Prosecutors who are in charge of the much-discussed file of abuses at AKSHI involving businessman Ergys Agasi. According to Braho, these wiretaps were intended to put pressure on SPAK prosecutors who are investigating this affair.
Such a strong statement made those present look each other in the eye, showing once again how deep the scandal is and how far state institutions have been tainted in the service of organized crime.
However, Rama seems to have stuck to the idea that “SPAK was rushed.” This was also reflected in the statement issued after the meeting, which emphasized that “for national security, institutions do not compete with each other.” The rest of the statement was Rama’s long-standing concern that the criminal trials of his elected officials are individual matters.
"Individual issues should not turn into a crisis of trust in the state and security institutions," the presidency's announcement read at the top.
Now Rama seems to be trying to divert attention from the core of the scandal. The problem for him is not the violation of one of the most important institutions in national security, but the way Vlora Hyseni was treated. At first, the line of a "love story" was pumped up, while now the concern is the release of the files. Even alongside Ursual von der Layen, Rama insisted that "what has been done to the Service with the method that the issue was handled is unprecedented in the history of the world."
In fact, what is "unprecedented in world history" is the "turning off the radar" of an entire state for criminal organizations. ©LAPSI.al
