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From the murder of Pjerin Xhuvani to the armed groups/ Gazment Bardhi and his connections with the gangs
The April 25 parliamentary election campaign bled in its last days. On April 21, a few days before the elections in Elbasan, was killed Pjerin Xhuvani. In that event, 2 people were injured, a police officer, a passer-by and another citizen, the son-in-law of the late Xhuvani.
Today, more than 10 months later, this crime, which is suspected to have political motives, has only one person arrested as the perpetrator. He is Arbër Paplekaj. In fact, it is the latter who fired the weapon in the direction of Xhuvani. But the story that led to the bloodshed of the election campaign didn’t start at that moment.
It is suspected that political actors are also involved, such as Gazment Bardhi, who at that time was the political leader of the Democratic Party in Elbasan, and the first in the list of candidates for MPs in the Elbasan region. Bardhi was moving in Elbasan accompanied by groups of armed people, claiming that he was defending the votes, which later produced a murder.
But Bardhi has also been accused of connections with the gangs. He was even warned by the DP allies not to guarantee anything to the gangs. This was confirmed by the chairwoman of the SMI, Monika Kryemadhi, on a television show in November 2021.
At first, Gazment Bardhi considered the event politically motivated, and denied any connection to Arbër Paplekaj. According to Bardhi, the victim was a member of the electoral staff of Taulant Balla, and in his car were found money and identity cards of citizens suspected of having sold their vote.
But on Thursday evening in the show “Opinion” on TV Klan in front of the journalist Klodiana Lala, Bardhi denied that the murder of Pjerin Xhuvani had political motives. He even said that Arbër Papleka is not a murderer, and according to him, the only responsibility for the murder lies with those who incited the gangs to confront or attack the Democratic Party militants.
But what was his role? Wasn’t in the role of the instigator of the gangs? The person who created the armed groups, the so called Vote Protection Structure, outside of any legal definition, and who associated with armed persons?
These are some questions for which Gazment Bardhi must be held accountable as an accomplice in the crime. Also in the show “Opinion”, the former General Director of the State Police, Agron Kuliçaj, reacted to the accusations of the latter regarding the clashes of January 8.
He mentioned the name of Ardit Meçe as a member of Gazment Bardhi’s accompanying group in Elbasan during the election campaign. This accusation has destabilized Bardhi. Justice must go to the end of this issue, and hold accountable and responsible Gazment Bardhi./CNA.al
Nga vrasja e Pjerin Xhuvanit tek grupet e armatosura/ Gazment Bardhi dhe lidhja me bandat
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Exclusive video – Lulzim Basha supplied food to the bandits at the DP headquarters/ The details that were not seen on January 8
An exclusive video provided by CNA.al, shows how two people were buying food for paramilitaries or people trapped in the headquarters of the Democratic Party in support of Lulzim Basha. The video was shot on the day of the protest, in one of the shopping malls near the headquarters of the Democratic Party.
We can clearly see two people who have filled two carts with sandwiches at one of the service premises in this shopping center. What is this video and what does it show? First, the video shows two people in a commercial center.
They are seen filling two carts with sandwiches and snacks. It is easy to understand to whom these sandwiches are taken. They are taken to some people who are trapped inside the Democratic Party headquarters. Because the other people who had entered the early hours of the morning did not need to be fed.
After the clashes they came out, and went to their homes and families. Therefore, it is the food that was taken to Lulzim Basha’s detainees. Those who many opposition voices have described as paramilitaries, criminal groups, problematic persons who were locked in the headquarters of the Democratic Party on January 8, in “protection” of Lulzim Basha.
The dismissed chairman of the Democratic Party, who has already been verified and confirmed that he is staying at the headquarters only to use the latter for a bargain with Edi Rama, to get permission for the construction of several multi-storey towers on the land where is located the DP headquarters.
So CNA.al publishes a video-fact, which shows that two sandwich carts are sent to the DP headquarters, for Basha, his paramilitaries, people brought from Kumanovo, Kosovo and other individuals who used violence against democrats, threw gas, used chemicals against protesters, injuring dozens of them. And they did this only to keep the DP at all costs, not in the name of principles, but simply and only to turn it into a tower for Lulzim Basha./CNA.al
Video ekskluzive-Basha furnizon me ushqime banditët në PD/ Detajet që nuk u panë në 8 Janar
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How started the incinerators’concession, the names involved and the media purchase/ Elvi Fundo unravel the corrupt affair
CNA.al journalist and editor, Elvi Fundo, has revealed the details of one of the most accused corruption scandals in Albania, that of the incinerator concession. Invited last night on the show “A show”, by journalist Adi Krasta, journalist Fundo gave a full overview, how the concession of incinerators started, up to the inclusion or purchase of media silence.
Fundo emphasized that millions of Lek have ended up in the main media in Albania, whereat the top of the list is the media led by the former socialist MP, Ben Blushi, whose wife is a partner with Klodian Zoto and Mirel Mërtiri, in a company of established in Bulgaria, EM Capital Group.
Meanwhile, millions of Lek have gone to the companies of journalist Endrit Habilaj, which have benefited about 50.000 euros. Irfan Hysenbelliu’s “Focus Group” company, which includes News 24 television, Balkanweb, etc., has also received millions of Lek from incinerators, while the Fax News television has also been on the incinerator’s payroll.
Carlo Bollino also took his share, which according to the documents turns out to have been paid millions of Lek by the incinerators. Meanwhile, millions have received peripheral portals, or even the “doctor” of the American Hospital, Baton Haxhiu.
Fundo explained that everything started in 2014, where within one day for this issue were drafted and approved 9 government decisions. Something that has never happened in these 30 years of democracy, as every project must follow a series of procedures that usually last at least a few weeks.
According to him, the incinerator company is registered with only 100.000 Lek as capital. So instead of starting the works with her own money, she took a loan in a second level bank, which she repaid with the state budget money that the Rama government started to give before the works started.
Meanwhile, except the incinerator in Elbasan, which also has many problems, the incinerators in Fier and Tirana have not been built yet. The company has even imposed an increase in construction costs in the capital, due to high tariffs for cleaning soil and aggregates from construction sites.
Fundo stressed that except CNA.al and a few media, most remained silent about this scandal, after being corrupted by millions of euros, in the form of payments for advertising the company.
“SPAK has all the facts in its hands. I don’t wish bad luck to any journalist. But as long as the media is immersed so far, this is unacceptable. In my opinion, this payment made by incinerators was prompted by a political order to probably serve in election campaigns”- said Fundo./CNA.al
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Incinerators, millions for Irfan Hysenbelliu’s family/ Other documents revealed
The story of the incinerator concession, among the most accused in Albania, also called the corrupt affair of the century, for which a former minister has been handcuffed, has included many media and journalists.
One of the media paid by incinerator companies is that of Irfan Hysenbelliu’s family, Fax Media News, ie Fax TV and Fax News. In only 7 bills of 2021, the owners of incinerators have paid tens of millions of Lek for Fax News, e which is owned by the family of Irfan Hysenbelliu.
According to official data “Fax Media News”, it is systematically paid by incinerator companies. The monthly value is about 11.000 euros. This payment has been made officially. CNA.al makes public the data for at least 7 invoices of 2021, the value of which goes over 90 million Lek.
According to the extract of the National Business Center, Fax Media News, turns out to have 90 percent of the shares owned by KEDO GROUP, which is owned by the relatives of the late Kasem Hysenbelliu, brother of Irfan Hysenbelliu.
“Kedo Group” has as shareholders Kasem Hysenbelliu’s heirs, namely his wife and two children. As we have announced, CNA.al will continue to publish day after day the payments they have received, even in the form of ”advertisements”, media or peripheral portals, from incinerator companies. CNA.al will not stop, by publishing with documents, the entire media clientele, of one of the most accused affairs in 30 years of democracy./CNA.al
Inceneratorët, miliona për familjarët e Irfan Hysenbelliut/ Zbulohen të tjera dokumente
