Edi Rama's agenda has been packed with meetings in recent days, as the prime minister is said to have begun consultations on the new government.
But among the many visits to the office of the head of government, there was also a somewhat unusual visit.
Two days ago, the media reported that former President of Kosovo, businessman Behgjet Pacolli, also arrived urgently at the Prime Minister's Office.
Although Pacolli's visit was reported to be related to political consultations, the Kosovo boss had another problem. Pacolli is being pressured to take over the Vlora airport by force.
Kapitali contacted Vlora International Airport about this issue, but the company refused to speak.
However, Kapital has been able to obtain official documents proving that the Vlora airport concession is under attack.
On August 21, the shareholders' assembly of Mabco Construction, which owns 98 percent of the shares of Vlora airport, was convened urgently in Lugano, Switzerland.
There was only one totally unusual and very strange item on the agenda of the extraordinary meeting.
"Today, on 21.08.2025, the company Mabco Constructions SA, a partner in the company " Vlora International Airport -VIA" sh.pk, decided to restrict any transfer of ownership (past, present or future) of the shares owned by Mabco in the share capital of VIA, until a second decision is made, and their registration with the National Business Center," the decision states.
Mabco's unusual decision
So the company has decided not to allow any sale of shares in Vlora airport.
This is the same as a citizen making a decision to stop the sale of his house, when in fact the only one who can sell the house is the citizen himself.
What drives a company to make such a decision?
In fact, this is the defense that Pacolli is giving himself from Switzerland for the pressures being put on him in Tirana to take over the airport. Or the exit from a potential non-public agreement.
And the way the decision was worded speaks of stock sales or agreements in the past.
This raises other doubts.
International scandal
The serious scandal has now gone international. Kapitali has learned that the company has officially notified at least two embassies in Tirana that they are trying to steal their business.
This was apparently the reason why Edi Rama urgently received Behgjet Pacolli in his office at the Prime Minister's Office.
In fact, Pacolli's reception at the prime minister's office is also unusual. Edi Rama prefers to resolve such major scandals privately, away from the public eye.
But this time, Edi Rama did not hold the meeting privately in one of his many government villas, but chose to hold the reception publicly at the Prime Minister's Office.
And someone who is the greatest master of accounts in this country doesn't do anything without a reason.
Did Behgjet do it with his own head?
Pacolli's public reception as prime minister is in fact another message through which Edi Rama is formally distancing himself from the scandal that is erupting.
This endangers someone else; his deputy in the government, Belinda Balluku .
Ms. Balluku is the head of the contracting authority for the Vlora airport concession. She, along with Edi Rama, are the only two people in Albania who have the power to seize Behgjet Pacolli's business.
But as time has already shown on more than one occasion, when the government's corrupt intrigues explode in public, a sacrifice is always made, and the sacrifice is never Edi Rama.
Will the Vlora Airport scandal be the earthquake that will shake the positions of the most powerful minister in the government? That remains to be seen, but now Belinda Balluku is seriously in danger.
However, the Vlora Airport scandal has just erupted.
More details will likely be published in the coming days.
But all this proves a tragic truth.
Albania has become a country where both people and businesses are kidnapped, day in and day out.
This is the main characteristic of a pure mafia state./ Kapital