It is happening what was expected. Within 48 hours, after Ora News came under the administration of the state, because of accusations raised regarding the assets of the owner of this television, Ylli Ndroqi, it seems that the journalists are self-victimizing and becoming the shield of a former drug trafficker.

In fact, this is what has happened all these years, from the first day that Ylli Ndroqi became the owner of this television. Many media have written, reported, including us. They clashed with Ylli Ndroqi, they even went to court. He has always claimed that he is not a citizen Xhemail Pasmaçiu.
He also demanded the removal of the writings, but time showed that he was indeed
Xhemail Pasmaçiu, convicted of drug trafficking in Turkey, and arrested on behalf of Italy.
In its announcement, SPAK said that the letter-order had arrived from Italy since 2015, but as always with procedures, finding the spaces, Ylli Ndroqi escaped the justice.

It is said that at time the man who intervened was the President of the Republic, Ilir Meta. But this still remains in the context of the information leaked through the tables of journalists.
But what is happening today is more frightening than yesterday.
Ylli Ndroqi has used many of his journalists to attack media colleagues, and those who write against Ylli. So, those who have revealed the truth that Ylli Ndroqi is the drug trafficker, Xhemail Pasmaçiu.
Yes, it is Ylli Ndroqi’s subordinates, those who in fact said in confidence that Ylli should be investigated, and if the accusations were confirmed, they would distance themselves from him. They claimed that he hadn’t even changed his name, that these are fake stories, jokes, or theories made public to damage the image of a successful businessman.
And God knows who Ylli’s businesses were. But, that the assets are very large, this was shown by SPAK. However, journalists can never become shields of ex-drug trafficker Xhemail Pasmaçiu, named after Ylli Ndroqi, according to documents that show the change of name, published by CNA.al.
Journalists cannot be victimized. They are at Ora News, and they are working cheaply.
We are seeing every day, how their “rifle” has already become a “cannon”. A very strong “cannon” against the Municipality of Tirana, accusing Erion Veliaj even more strongly. Today they have forgotten Edi Rama.
On the other hand, we see that they are free to write and say whatever they want. But,
they always try to attack Veliaj, but also those who tell the truth. In fact, it is time for his subordinates, though serving their payer, to remain silent or publicly acknowledge a truth, which they have always denied, that their boss is a former convicted drug trafficker in Turkey and arrested on behalf of Italy.
This is what SPAK told them, and INTERPOL also. They should acknowledge this publicly, and apologize to their colleagues and friends for the advocacy they have done to a former drug trafficker. Then, in terms of managing Ora News, and their work as journalists, they
will have the support of every media, every journalist and every colleague in Albania, to be free and to do their job.
But other journalists will never be with them, when they advocate for a former internationally confirmed drug trafficker. And journalists cannot be his shield. They cannot self-sacrifice for money and protect their owner.

If Ylli Ndroqi is a former drug trafficker, and has set up a media with her money, this is a violation of law, and there can be no media paid for by drug money. The time has come to say enough to any media that today more than in its mision, is in the service of the former trafficker owner, the business owner, the owner who wants licenses, or the owner who wants mansions, the owner who wants tenders, or of owners who impose fines.
Therefore, it would be good for our fellow journalists not to be the shield of the trafficker, but to be in their true mission. And in case that Erion Veliaj did this to Ylli Ndroqi, as it is claimed, we will be on their side to protect Ora News.
But by removing Ylli Ndroqi, or the former drug trafficker Xhemail Pasmaçi from a television. Because we can never accept that a media outlet is owned by a drug trafficker.
On the other hand it would be good that journalists, rather than a shield trafficker, begin to deal with the government and Prime Minister Rama, whom have forgotten the name, and instead we are told the jokes with ostensibly trials with Erion Veliaj, and the big troubles with the mayor of Tirana.

Before they became the shield of the drug trafficker, we would like them to make public the images of the wedding of Ylli Ndroqi’s son, where the first dance was played by the Mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj, with the late mother of Ylli Ndroqi.
This would be enough to show us how much the disgusting public game is worth, that it is Erion Veliaj who is “massacring” Ylli Ndroqi, while they do not say a word about Prime Minister Rama, or the real institutions that have been investigating Ylli Ndroqi for almost two years for his wealth. Without speaking further for the criminal silence of fellow journalists for all these years, and protection they gave to the former drug trafficker Xhemail Pasmaçiu./ CNA.al

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Gazetarët nuk mund të jenë mburojë e ish-trafikantit të drogës

In Albania there is a small story that is told in the form of an irony or joke, when someone is judged for what he didn’t do, and the one who is the real culprit is not mentioned. Someone stole a villager his cow, and then his fellow villagers went home.

The missing cow was a big problem for him, because the farmer take from the cattle milk, cheese and butter. He kept the house with that cow. But all the friends who came in his house one by one, criticized him very harshly. “How did they steal the cow? Why you let the door open? How is it possible that you didn’t hear it when it was taken out? Why you hadn’t properly connected?”, and other things like this.

In the end, the villager, tired and upset by the accusations, said to his friends:”Does have the thief any fault?”. So is the story of Ylli Ndroqi with the reactions coming from a small part of the opposition, and some people mainly close to him and the SMI party.

Everything is being called a political attack on him. All that is being said, is that journalists are being attacked. But so far no one comes out and doesn’t tell the truth, that the citizen Ylli Ndroqi is indeed the citizen Xhemail Pasmaçiu, as SPAK said.

Convicted of drug trafficking in Turkey, and arrested in 2015 on behalf of the Italian law, again for drug trafficking. Is Ylli Ndroqi to blame? Does this individual have a responsibility? How can the public, and some segment of opposition find the time to allegedly speak on reporters.

Journalists have done very well to attack Erion Veliaj. And they can find dozens of media outlets to attack both the mayor of Tirana and the country’s Prime Minister. But it is ridiculous to channel everything only to journalists and call it a political attack, leaving aside the real culprits, the one who is the owner of the television, who is accused by justice and yesterday SPAK came out with concrete facts about this issue.

Therefore, we ask: Does have the thief (trafficker) any fault? The fact is that Ylli Ndroqi is a former convicted trafficker. Then, what are they talking about? What they say? Why no one put the dots on “i”? We are dealing with a former trafficker, arrested for drug trafficking, who is a media owner. That is the issue.

Could be the media of a former drug trafficker the opposition voice of the citizens? Nobody is saying that. Everyone tries to avoid. They want the “thief” innocent. So, the trafficker is not called such, although he was once condemned, but today it is free.

Meanwhile, on the other hand, it is claimed that he is in opposition with actual government. And what harm could it do if Pablo Escobar, were the voice of the opposition in one country? These things happened when the “Escobar’s” became deputies.

It is no wonder that exponents from the underworld became such, because this it happened in Albania. In 2013 at least 11 people with criminal records, convicted of drugs or prostitution, became part of parliament, and the decriminalization law was needed to remove them.

But everything was not enough there. It had to go to the media as well. Therefore, the case of the thief who is not tried as guilty. But the blame goes to the investigating institutions, or the Albanians who have suffered, or the media that is the only victim of representation by a former drug trafficker owner, are the main problem.

But, in fact it is quite the opposite. The main problem is the former drug trafficker, not the journalists, nor the society, nor the media. They are not responsible. Anyone who channels these as part of this issue, does it so for the sole purpose of protecting a former drug trafficker. And in this case they do nothing but protect the “thief”, or in this case by serving a former trafficker./ CNA.al 

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Po hajduti (trafikanti) ka faj?

Few people have fixed the name of the Turk Abdulselam Turgut (Yunus). But it is enough to bring to attention the dismantling of a cell that would carry out terrorist attacks on the day of Sultan Nevruz, against the MEK Iranians in Albania, or a decision of Judge Gjin Gjoni for a Turkish citizen, and the memory begins to clear.

His name, but also some others, comes out of the SPAK investigations, after the decision to seize the assets of Ylli Ndroqi. Their friendship started years ago, to become partners in the drug business in 1998 in Turkey, when the name Xhemail Pasmaçiu (today Ylli Ndroqi) fell into the Turkish Justice Network along with other Albanian and Turkish names.

Now SPAK, on the day of the trial for the President of “Ora News”, while listing the dizzying property with 26 real estates, brings out what has long been rumored by politics, media, judiciary or public opinion, but also gives the names of the persons of arrested in Turkey with Ylli Ndroqi.

“On 02.09.1998 by the teams of the sector against narcotics (….), for international narcotics trafficking, were seized 30.5 kg of heroin narcotics and were arrested in flagrance the citizens Ismail Cira, Musa Kazim AY, Fatmir Sofia, Hekuran Hoxha, Cevdet Sahin Balcilar, Abdulselam Yunus and Ylli Ndroqi, presented under the name of Xhemail Pasmaçiu … “.

Xhemail Pasmaçiu managed to throw behind his back his past, thanks his connections with Albanian politicians, appearing on the screen as President of Ora News, Honorary Consul of Mexico, successful businessman, etc. But, his traces failed to be covered 100 per cent after media investigations, leaks, rivalries or any other reference we can give, brought him “naked” in the middle of the day.

The firm of Gjin Gjoni or Alaudin Malaj, already removed from the justice system, to ease the sentence of the Turk Abdulselam, while the latter was persistently wanted by Germany for the purpose of extradition as a drug trafficker, resumed the debate, about the interests hidden behind a daring decision by the Albanian judge.

Journalists Klodiana Lala and Artan Hoxha, were the ones who made public the first facts.

Klodiana Lala almost a year ago wrote about a businessman with two names who had intervened in this decision. “Adbulselam Turgut was released years ago by the Court of Appeals with the measure of house arrest, at a time when there was no address in Albania. His release was made possible by his Albanian friends who pay millions. His file in the State Police was reopened two years ago, and a portal wrote about some details.

For this reason, an officer was suspended from work, on suspicion of revealing secret information. In fact, it was not she who revealed the secret, but someone else. The noise quickly subsided, because as soon as I realized again, that boss with two names acted in his own way.

Now this trafficker is involved in a network of terrorism. Serious Crimes Prosecution has an early record of this. The question is:Are the businessman and his connections with politics being investigated?”- quoted the journalist Klodiana Lala.

Meanwhile, Artan Hoxha, while giving information about Turgut, revealed, among other things, how the investigation for the drug cell started in 1998, through the tracking of a football player of Albanian origin, news which was also reflected in the Turkish newspaper “ Hurriet”, while once he dedicated in the show “Jungle” an investigation that touches on the other criminal side, that of Islamic terrorism:“Abdulselam Turgut has been under investigation for drug trafficking, for the purpose of extradition to Germany. The story dates back to 1998. During a Turkish police operation, was hit a group of Albanians. They found their tracks following a football player of Albanian origin, who fled early, and who was caught with 30 kg of heroin.

Turkish police managed to seize a shipment of 190 kg of heroin that had been ordered in Turkey and would come to Albania by land. Roni from Shijak has been arrested in Albania and Italy for heroin. He is involved in the electoral campaigns of political forces in Shijak. Crime has no political color, it has participated in various campaigns …”-declared Hoxha.

In the statement of the Director of Police, Ardi Veliu on October 23, 2019, for the discovery of the terrorist cell, there are signs of connections of Abdulselam Turgut with Ndroqi. But the focus of success in preventing a terrorist attack, avoids branching out into the former network of narcotics and public information regarding the case of Turkey where Ndroqi is involved.

“Turgut also has old connections with organized crime in Albania. He was released from a prison in Turkey at the end of 2018. In 2011, Turgut was also imprisoned in Albania on charges related to the alleged trafficking of about 1 ton of heroin. But he managed to escape from the country using a false passport after the court changed the security measure from ‘Prison arrest’ to ‘House arrest”- declared Veliu.

But now everything is clear, deconstructed and proven. For Ylli Ndroqi (Xhemail Pasmaciu) there is only seizure of property and public decisions as a drug trafficker. Still, no one has taken seriously or investigated his connections with characters from the criminal world accused of terrorism. (to be continued) /CNA.al

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Nga trafiku i drogës, tek celulat terroriste/ Lidhjet kriminale të Ylli Ndroqit dhe paralajmërimet e gazetarëve