How Pëllumb Gjoka, the "strategic investor" of Edi Rama, robbed the properties

2024-03-08 19:37:00, Aktualitet CNA

How Pëllumb Gjoka, the "strategic investor" of Edi Rama, robbed

Today, the Supreme Court upheld the decision to seize 39 hectares of land belonging to the businessman Pëllumb Gjoka, who before his arrest had benefited from the status of a strategic investor from the Rama government.

Robbery of property is another criminal story, apart from that of paid murders, where the "strategic investor" is involved, who, having the support of the government, had the whole state behind him, from the cadastre, the police, the prosecution and the courts.

39 hectares of land, located in Pulaj of Velipoja, belonged to a 99-year-old woman named Drane Hotaj. After her death it was found that she had excluded her children from the property inheritance in her will. The report to SPAK about the forgeries was made to SPAK on January 16, 2023 by citizens Lule Zefi and her son Donald Zefi.

In an interview of Lule Zefi, heir to the lands that Pëllumb Gjoka had appropriated, she says that the confrontation with the "strategic investor" was hopeless, as she faced the state, but also crime.

In an interview with journalist Anila Hoxha, the heiress of Drane Hotaj, who had properties in Veliopoja, says that she lived under the constant threat of criminal groups, who threatened her with her life. One person even put a pistol to his head to withdraw the complaints.

"This person was sentenced minimally, the case is under appeal. Today, the investigation file was released. That Pëllumb Gjoka called Ervis Martini, that Ervis Martini found Gëzim Çela, Gëzim Çela answered. They came to me at night, they came to me during the day, they came to me in cars, but the children put cameras on me. I have never had a problem in my life, only about the lands," said Lule Zefi in the interview after the arrest of the businessman.

While denouncing the forgeries and the service that the judges had done for Pëllumb Gjoka, Lule Zefi raises doubts that her mother was also killed to take her property in Velipoja.

"The mother passed away in 2022, she had marks on her face and I saw her that day. He died without saying who is sick or not. I was notified at ten o'clock at night, my phone rang. They notified me three times. They told me "Drania is very sick". I replied to you, I didn't have confidence to go out at night, with the condition of the mobsters. I told you "do whatever you want with Drane, leave me alone". It has been exhumed. A sudden death. There were marks on his face," she said.

The name of businessman Gjoka has often been mentioned in political circles, as the opposition has accused him of being a person involved in buying votes in favor of the Socialist Party. Previously engaged in gambling, in July 2021 his company Imperial Group was granted the status of strategic investor for the construction of a tourist resort in Velipojë, with a value of 52 million euros.

The opposition has repeatedly denounced his role in the past elections. Speaking specifically about Velipoja after the defeat of Shkodra, Sali Berisha said: "I asked Akil Kraja, the director of the candidate who will be installed on the day of the vote in Velipoja because Pëllumb Gjoka, a problem with a series of serious accusations, but who is said to be Olsi and Edi Rama's money will do everything to intervene.

Achilles went to Velipoja. The voting center had 4-5 thugs at the door with tattoos and gold chains, the voter would come and wait at the door, put their hand on his arm, say something in his ear, escort him inside and wait until he left. Pëllumb Gjoka's last BME almost did not get the door of the VC. "Pellumbi had dispersed the people in cars with foreign license plates and put it under control."

But investigations into more serious charges were registered in the following months, after Europol passed on incriminating information about SKY ECC users to SPAK.

As users of this application, SPAK identified Behar Bajri, Ervis Martini, Pëllumb Gjoka, Denis Bajri, Edmon Preka, Nuredin Dumani, Astmer Bilal, but also representatives of justice such as the prosecutor, Xhevahir Lita and police officials, Oltian Bistri and Ardit Hasanbegaj.

These communications revealed not only murders that had remained without perpetrators, but also confirmed that prosecutors were used to close criminal cases.

Pëllumb Gjoka is accused today of being part of a structured criminal group that is accused of a series of criminal offenses ranging from "Premeditated murder", "Abuse of duty" to "Trafficking of narcotics", in cooperation in the form of the "Structured Group criminal", "Creating conditions for murder" etc.

Full interview of Lule Zefi for journalist Anila Hoxha Anila Hoxha:

- Did you start a trial for the lands?

Lulë Zefi: - I finished the civil land trial, after I finished this criminal one. I continued the trials. In June they came to kill me. In August they do the next one, like my mother gives all the land to my brother. We asked for the file. They didn't give it to us, they said "it was taken by the prosecution, the investigation". The will turned out to be forged. But still we did not win the trial. I lost on the first step. We went to appeal. Next, we have four living children and the power of attorney is given to Ardian Beci, and he becomes the owner of his mother's lands, everything that this citizen had to do.

Anila Hoxha: - Who is this citizen?

Lüle Zefi: - I don't know him, I don't know. Even today I don't recognize him, he took his mother's land and did as he wanted. In 2017, five years later and two months after I was assassinated, I continued to ask for my parents' lands because they do not belong to anyone because I am my mother's child.

Anila Hoxha: - Did the prosecution investigate?

Lulë Zefi: - For this whole scheme that has been done, the prosecution did not file any charges, everything brought out those winners. I am waiting and I will turn to all world courts. I do not forgive him and I will turn to anyone. I won only one trial in Shkodër, that of Kadastra. Because I am the daughter and the Land Registry must be investigated. Mother passed away in 2022, she had marks on her face and I saw her that day. He died without saying who is sick or not. I was notified at ten o'clock at night, my phone rang. They notified me three times. They told me "Drania is very sick". I replied to you, I didn't have confidence to go out at night, with the condition of the mobsters. I told you "do whatever you want with Drane, leave me alone". It has been exhumed. A sudden death. There were marks on his face.

Anila Hoxha: -Meanwhile you asked to be investigated and it was not investigated?

Lüle Zefi: - I knew who I was facing, I knew that I was facing Pëlumb Gjoka. I knew that he took the land of our parents and that he makes the law. But not everywhere. He does it in the prosecutor's office, in the courts and in a part of the police.

Anila Hoxha: - Are you afraid for the children's lives?

Lüle Zefi: - Anything can happen. Pëllumb Gjoka I am neither the first nor the last, he shot, killed others in Velipoja, I don't know.

Anila Hoxha: - Did you send a report to SPAK?

Lulë Zefi: - I, who sought justice in SPAK, had tried all the courts. I couldn't find any results. They were not giving me justice anywhere. Because they fuel my life. Not one day, but every day coming before me. Every day they kill me,

Anila Hoxha: - Was he alone or did he have helpers?

Lüle Zefi: - It has always been with helpers. As I have seen myself, he has always sent his paid ones. His criminal groups.

Anila Hoxha: - Did you lose hope in Albania?

Lulë Zefi: - I lost hope in Albania, because in Albania, as he told me, he made the law. In every country of the world, the child enjoys the inheritance of the parents, not everyone. We will find this law somewhere. My investigative file is behind Gëzim Spahia. They took away this right from Gëzim Spahia, and gave it to Franceskina Lekani, prosecutor. And the trial took place without her presence. It should have been that the power of attorney is not necessary. These were all done in violation of the law. Those who are speculating with the lands, with the justice of the poor people. I move forward, give me strength a God who is.

Anila Hoxha: - Relations with your cousin were normal until the land issue in Velipoja was discovered?

Lüle Zefi: - They were normal until the will. Ever since the last will was given, they have avoided us.

Anila Hoxha: - You told me that an armed man put a pistol to your head?

Lulë Zefi: - This person was sentenced minimally, the case is on appeal. Today, the investigation file was released. That Pëllumb Gjoka called Ervis Martini, that Ervis Martini found Gëzim Çela, Gëzim Çela answered. They came to me at night, they came to me during the day, they came to me in cars, but the children put cameras on me. I have never had a problem in my life just for lands.

Anila Hoxha: - Does it come out or does it always go out controlled?

Lüle Zefi: - I don't go out. I don't go out, I said. My way is the prosecutor-court-police and the Church. And until the last moment, a person waits with hope for justice, but it is quite difficult, because those who are in the police, in the Cadastre, do not read the laws.

Anila Hoxha: - On the ground with cameras, in the kitchen with cameras, but in the church there are cameras! Have you denounced these officials?

Lüle Zefi: - I have fully denounced them. Get prosecutors, get judges, I have denounced enough. What was the result: only this reached SPAK.

Nothing else. Where is that notary? Where are those prosecutors there? Where are those who have protected and given justice to Pëllumb Gjoka. Why don't they say; where this mother has her children, all the children should be present there.

Anila Hoxha: - When you saw the file that SPAK took out, did you get scared?

Lüle Zefi: - No, I wasn't scared at all because it's something I've experienced myself. I have written what I have experienced and I have not defamed anything./ Pencil