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Shkullaku: Crime now controls the state, a politician will be killed here

Politiko 2025-09-25 21:54:46

Shkullaku: Crime now controls the state, a politician will be killed here

Analyst Armand Shkullaku believes that organized crime in Albania has passed the stage of collaboration with politics and is now the one that controls state institutions.

Invited to Syri TV, he declares that the prosecution is unable to uncover corruption, electoral crime, or even the murder of Ervis Martin, because 'the state is involved'.

'I think crime has passed the stage of cooperation with politics. I think crime is the master of politics, of justice, of the prosecution, of the police. Without referring to the Italian journalist's book at all, it is enough to look at two files; that of the Bajra in Shkodra and the Çelaj in Elbasan. You have a prosecutor who works for organized crime in Shkodra, you have a judge who works for crime in Elbasan. You have the chief of operations who supplies organized crime with information.

"This prosecution of ours is good because it can't uncover corruption, good because it can't cover up electoral crime, but why can't it uncover the murder of Vis Martin? Because the state is involved ," said Shkullaku.

Shkullaku also warned that the situation could explode due to conflicts between gangs and there could also be casualties from politics.

'I've said it and I can't even bring myself to say it, but here this thing will explode because it's very difficult to keep the gangs under control. They have conflicts with each other and in a country like Albania where there is no pluralism and one person who leads, we don't even have competition in the economy, so the free market is under the leadership of Rama. The only competition here that will create dynamics is the competition of the gangs with each other. And this can only explode on the day when an important politician of the majority is killed, wasted .', stressed Armand Shkullaku 

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