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Taulant Muka denounces the new director of AKSHI for plagiarism in his doctoral thesis: Here are the documents

2026-02-16 21:35:32Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Researcher Taulant Muka has published two denunciations, accusing the new director of the National Agency for the Information Society (AKSHI), Igli Tafa, of plagiarism in scientific articles and in his doctoral dissertation.

Tafa was appointed head of the National Cyber ??Security Authority on February 13, 2026, after former director Mirlinda Karçanaj was dismissed from office and is under house arrest and under investigation by SPAK for alleged abusive tender procedures related to the institution. Previously, Igli Tafa held the position of director at the National Cyber ??Security Authority.

A day earlier, Muka denounced a scientific article published by Igli Tafa in 2011, entitled "A Survey of QoS Routing Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks", which, according to him, was copied verbatim from earlier studies published by authors in Malaysia and India.

According to Muka, the article contains "copy-paste" excerpts, raising serious doubts about the academic integrity of the head of an institution that administers state digital systems and citizen data.

"Prime Minister Rama's love for plagiarism knows no bounds...

The 2011 scientific article by Igli Tafa, the new director of AKSHI, was copied verbatim (copy-paste) from studies published earlier in Malaysia and India. Among thousands of educated Albanians, the Prime Minister once again proves that plagiarism is a criterion for leaders.

It is about the study: "A Survey of QoS Routing Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks" (2011), which is identical to parts of two articles by Aisha-Hassaan (2008) and I. Latha (2009).

The National Agency for Information Security (NAIS) is the institution that manages the state's digital systems and citizens' data. How can such a critical institution be led by someone with such a precedent?

And the next question: is this article of his only 100% copy-paste?

The case does not seem isolated: we have also told the former director of AKSHI, Mirlinda Karçanaj, about her 100% plagiarized doctorate.

"After all the serious events related to AKSHI, the consequences are clear when critical institutions are run by people with low professional standards ," Muka denounced on Facebook yesterday.

Meanwhile, in his reaction today, Muka also raised accusations about Igli Tafa's doctorate, defended in 2013 at the Polytechnic University of Tirana.

"The lectures of 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 the 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," Muka wrote on social media.

 


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