ABI Bank has refused to pay the 120 million fine for a fine-collecting portal

2026-06-24 11:58:00, Aktualitet CNA

ABI Bank has refused to pay the 120 million fine for a fine-collecting portal.

Through a statement, ABI Bank has emphasized that JOQ owners Erland Dalliu and Genti Çekeli, encouraged by ABI Bank's unexpected reaction to their fraud, have decided to increase the dose of defamation against ABI and the general director.

ABI Bank underlines that the owners of JOQ are not used to publicly confronting their fining activity in a systematic manner for many, many years.

ABI Bank states that the entire banking system has been constantly attacked with fraudulent stories of extortion, robbery, and bankruptcy, which after a few days or weeks are either deleted or added depending on the payment of the fine.

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ABI Bank statement

The owners of JOQ, encouraged by ABI Bank's unexpected reaction to their fraud, have decided to increase the dose of defamation against ABI and the general director. The request for a "fine" of 120 million per year was not met, so now they will show their teeth with the next fraud.

Apparently they are not used to being publicly confronted with their systematic fine-charging activity for many, many years.

To satisfy the curiosity of those who have not encountered the press mafia, the nature of the work of any media mafia is very simple. They have three types of fines. One when they find criminal mischief, two when a normal business makes an unintentional mistake, and three the only fault is that the business is financially successful. The message to all businesses is that “we will slander until you pay”.

The entire banking system has been constantly attacked with fraudulent stories of extortion, robbery, bankruptcy, which after a few days or weeks are either erased or added depending on the payment of the fine. Bank directors with decades of experience in the market are shamelessly slandered as spies, agents, scoundrels and all kinds of insults and frauds.

Bank employees are all labeled as extortionists and thieves. In the news published in different languages, frauds increase because the mafia knows that the justice system has nothing to do with them. In the name of protecting freedom of the press, it is considered quite normal to attack honest businesses. None of the bank employees (including directors) who are insulted are public figures.

The abuse of the extension of "freedom of the press" beyond the public sphere and into businesses is one of the wounds of the transition. Portals listed abroad and legally anonymous have the right to fine whomever they want and whenever they want. Perhaps the beginning of the end of the transition will begin to resolve this flagrant abuse of the right to expression and the punishment of defamation for businesses.

JOQ, in its next "sponsored" attack on ABI, saw fit to mix historical and current scams: "money laundering", "Serbia with three fingers", "Russian money", "ABI of Rilindja", "lands in Zvërnec" and (the coolest one actually) "the waiter director" who "bought two banks for 143 million euros".

All of these are scams served up by real justice reform crooks who simply want to divert attention from their own troubles. The press mafia are paid (online) "killers" of ordinary criminals. The crooks sometimes call and sometimes meet the press mafia with instructions on how to deal with honest businesses and what is the most fashionable scam of the moment.

It is understood that Zvërnec, America, money laundering and SPAK are very loud these days. The instruction is very simple: a mixed deception with deceptions that suit the moment. After a few months I am convinced that the media mafia, as they are accustomed to, will come and tell the customers themselves. They always remember very well and in detail who told them to deceive and when.

The press mafia has already expanded its reach. One lives in Tirana and is a bad cop, another lives somewhere else (maybe in Miami) and that's the logical one. Some have small businesses, some are registered as non-profits. Maybe somewhere in Europe, maybe in Estonia. Some live in modest addresses in Tirana, some in buildings worth $40,000 per square meter (like maybe in Miami).

ABI Bank has been one of the early supporters of the justice reform. It would be a blessed day for all honest Albanian business the day when the press mafia is called by this reform to show how they are paid, how much they are paid, how much taxes they pay, how much news of criminals they bury, how much fraudulent news sponsored by shady competitors they publish.

Several times honest entrepreneurs have raised the issue of expanding SPAK's activity in investigating mafia media. It has often been reported how media mafias are used aggressively by the dark side of society. Time will tell which media and which business have problems to solve. We will also test the ability of the new justice to investigate the fines of press portals on business.

ABI Bank has about 1,000 employees and 100,000 clients. ABI Bank's agenda has never been political. The ABI Board has welcomed professionals who have been apolitical, republican, democrat, socialist and environmentalist (among the most well-known in Europe). Many of ABI's employees have been involved with various political forces and we are very proud of this.

ABI Bank has well-known and reputable partners in the United States and is registered with the highest US banking authorities (SEC). ABI Bank is an undisputed leader in the tourism sector in Albania with dozens of hotels financed by Velipoja in Ksamil, Tirana or mountain tourism villages. ABI's dedication to the construction of major infrastructure works is well known in the Albanian economy.

These are the simple and great truths of ABI Bank, which would never tarnish its logo on the pages of mafia portals.

PS- ABI has long been the main supporter of a well-known charitable foundation. One of the reasons we refused to pay the 120 million lek fine was that the fine is close to the annual support of this foundation that truly does God's work by helping the most vulnerable. Better to double the support to the foundation, we thought./ CNA