Researcher Taulant Muka has made a public denunciation of Igli Tafa, who was recently appointed director of the Albanian Academy of Sciences and Arts. According to Muka, Tafa has appropriated his doctoral thesis and scientific articles, presenting them as his original work.
In his complaint, Muka claims that a scientific article published by Tafa in 2011, entitled “A Survey of QoS Routing Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks”, was copied verbatim from earlier studies by authors from Malaysia and India. He adds that the case does not appear to be isolated, citing the case of former AKSHI director Mirlinda Karçanaj, whose doctorate he previously claimed was 100% plagiarized.
Muka emphasizes that, in his opinion, the consequences are severe when critical institutions are led by people with low professional standards. He has also raised doubts about Tafa's doctoral thesis, defended in 2013 at the Polytechnic University of Tirana.
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DOCTORATE PLAGIARISM – The second case of Igli Tafa, Director of AKSHI!
The lectures of the Romanian professor Dana Petcu (2009) were used verbatim as chapters in Igli Tafa's doctoral thesis (defended 2013, Polytechnic University of Tirana). So: lecture notes of a foreign professor, presented as a doctoral thesis!
From the first chapter, the copying is clear, the text and structure match identically. This is the standard of the director of AKSHI. A bad example of how scientific degrees and titles are obtained in Albania, damaging education and meritocracy.
Yesterday's denunciation of the 2011 article copied from Malaysian and Indian studies is not an isolated plagiarism by Mr. Tafa. How is it possible that in 2026, when technology detects copying instantly and when thousands of Albanians have been educated at the best universities in the world, we still resort to plagiarism?
Mr. Tafa’s doctorate is not available for download online on the Polytechnic University website, as required by the law on transparency in higher education and public access to dissertations. This lack of public access also shows why the government and the National Library have restricted or “locked” doctorates from free access: they have practically blocked meritocracy and the future of the country.
