Who is the "Yugoslav service agent" who testified against Meta in SPAK, the businessman of affairs in AKEP is revealed and why

On July 8, 2024, at the height of the accusations that Ilir Meta sent to SPAK, through statements from headquarters or appearances in television studios, a statement made by Jasmira Memelli, his spokesperson, failed to unravel what he was talking about the former president.

Meta spoke through the spokesperson and not himself, (a rare case for the profile that the former president has chosen to keep in public since his active return to politics), about an unknown character, but who is at the head of the scheme against him.

"All those who deal with this issue, as President Meta has informed you 'off-record' to the associates of Dum-Duman, know very well that the head of this scheme is the former associate of the Yugoslav Services, A. SH ., (whose name we are not publishing in order not to damage Dum-Duman's investigations), escaped from Dibra in the late 80s and was recruited by the Yugoslav Services of the time.

This person was reactivated in the 2000s with the aim of compromising Ilir Meta and people close to him using alleged family ties. He has carried out a real agent activity by managing to compromise people close to President Meta, the facts about which they know and have at their disposal, such as the persons, EB, JM, and others", declared Meta.

But who is A.SH? The VOICE has been able to learn that A.SH is the businessman Adrian Shatku, who lives in the United States of America. Shatku was called by SPAK a few weeks ago where he was asked about his acquaintance with Meta and his family. The verification of the Special Prosecutor's Office also includes the telephone communications between Shatku and the Meta family.

It is precisely the call of this character at the doors of SPAK that is the reason why Meta lost his composure and publicly accused Shatku of being a collaborator of the Yugoslav services.

The VOICE was able to learn that in SPAK there are also several contracts that Shatku has benefited from Albanian institutions, including AKEP, through his company, UNIFI HOLDING Dega Albania. A branch of UNIFI HOLDING, property of Shatku, this company came to Albania in 2009 where it presented a series of ambitious projects.

This company, with two relatives of Adrian Shatku, Florian and Enkeleda Shatku as administrators, left in August 2018, when the socialists had removed Pirro Xixha of the former LSI from AKEP and the new manager had ordered an inspection.

AKEP's inspection revealed in the fall of 2018 that UNIFI had abused the Albanian consumer through the connection with Vodafone Albania. In November 2018, AKEP fined the company "Unifi Holding inc-dega Albania" with half a million dollars, after this company in 2014 took over the service of transiting international calls, incoming and outgoing, for the entrepreneur "Vodafone". This agreement was functional until August 2018, when AKEP inspectors deepened the control over the activity of "Unifi-dega Albania", which they had started in January last year.

AKEP has established that, for at least the first 6 months, the interconnection agreement was illegal, because Unifi was not equipped with the relevant license. Following the control, AKEP has also discovered that Unifi-Dega Albania has not declared in its balance sheets the invoices paid on behalf of "Vodafone", as well as those of sales to customers who use the international telephone service, for almost 3 years (2014 -2016), raising doubts about the money laundering activity.

At the end of the administrative investigation, AKEP fines "Unifi-dega Albania" with 50 million ALL.

It was precisely Shatku's strong connections that had made it possible for his activity in Albania to expand successfully. In 2010, a year after coming to the country, the Berisha government approved the installation of the Bari-Durra international submarine fiber optic cable, where the study was given to UNIFI. Since 2017, after the project was postponed several times, there is no longer any official announcement about what was done with this study that UNIFI branch Albania would have to carry out.

But who defended Shatku in AKEP? In the decision on the fine, AKEP states that "the control over this company started because it had not been controlled for more than three years". This sentence is addressed to the former head of AKEP, Pirro Xhixha, the father of MP Erisa Xhixho, who controlled the activities of UNIFI.

Now all of Shatku's economic activity in Albania is in the SPAK sieve, where he is suspected to be part of the close circle of the Meta family, even though the head of PL declares that he is an agent who used "semi-relative ties".

Who brought it and how did it expand the business in Albania, without the relevant licenses and with whose blessing, are the next questions waiting to be answered!/ VOICE