The leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, in a press conference, accused Prime Minister Edi Rama of transforming the National Agency for the Information Society into a mafia-like and private structure, where interests clash among people close to the government.
Berisha focused particularly on the case of the former deputy general director of AKSHI, Daniel Shima, describing him as a key figure in the tender files and interests related to people close to Rama.
"Yesterday afternoon, Albania, the first and only narco-state in Europe, was engulfed by the news about the former deputy director general of AKSHI, Daniel Shima. This was a person at the center of the cyclone, who knew everything about Armand Fang, about Gerond Meça, but also about the two ladies there – Mirlinda Karçanaj and the legal director, the sister of Ergys Agas, the chief mafia of Albania and the Balkans," said Berisha.
He added that Shima was dismissed on March 19, 2024, the same day that Mirlinda Karçanaj underwent a lengthy questioning session at SPAK. “After that session, as if she received an order from SPAK, she dismissed him immediately, without giving any reason,” the DP leader declared.
Speaking about the tenders won by Gerond Meçe's ABS company, Berisha stressed: "You know that AKSHI has been called Edi Rama's private enterprise. 800 transactions have been documented by the State Treasury, while Meçe has received 46 million euros in secret tenders, without competition. Environmental records mention that the tenders are determined by Rama's baxhanak, Armand Fangu, and it is even said that Linda Rama herself has had meetings with prosecutor Mara who was investigating Fangu's file."
Berisha described AKSHI as a "whirlpool of mafia interests" and accused Rama of using this structure as personal property.
