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Operation URA, a bridge that connected crime, power and the silence of SPAK!

Politiko 2025-05-22 16:30:21

By Flamur Vezaj
Xhevdet Troplinj or Poja with his friend, after casting his votes and winning a building permit from the government, has now ended up in the headlines. Not that any big secret was revealed, it was simply the end of the job: the concrete was poured, the votes were taken, and SPAK decided to "remember" that these people were under investigation for drug trafficking and murder. Well, better late than never... or better late and in vain?
In May 2024, in the "Revanshi" operation, an attempt was made to arrest Fatmir Troplini or Miri i Pojës, who escaped himself but could not escape 3 million euros in cash hidden in a plastic container! And then? Then... silence. Campaigns, rallies, and vote-gathering for Arkand Balla. SPAK? With eyes from the sky. Prosecutors of the "task force" during the campaign in Durrës? The justice elite on vacation, perhaps making the next plan at a resort owned by a friend of the builder Poja!
Well, SPAK didn't catch them collecting votes, because it's not like they have radar for that job, but they couldn't ask who helped them get a building permit in Durrës. While they were wanted for murder and drugs? Or shouldn't the concrete deal have been broken? And Rama, how does he give permission to a group that even Google can find in one click? Either no one asked him... or he didn't want to know at all, it's enough to secure the votes in Durrës.
And in the meantime, SPAK is "propaganda" to us with investigations and joint investigative groups, real-time strikes, trust, transparency... all with earwax when it comes to friends of the system.
Three months of silence so as not to ruin the "magic" of the campaign. And now? Now they're holding a conference about an operation that ended in February 2025. Were they waiting for the Italian anti-mafia prosecutors to come and take a picture with the "VIP" Dumani and the SPAKists? Or maybe they were "busy" with the parades of electoral spots in the CEC premises?
And yes, this time too the evidence is the usual: phone calls, photos, and conversations from SKY ECC, without which they would still be eating seeds in the glass palace and taking notes with a pen. The only documents that are read are those from 2016-2022 and a testimony from "cousin" Dumani, who has "opened his stomach", that he was almost killed in a scenario that looks more like a bad Albanian movie than a serious criminal file.
And the lawyer who was arrested? Who did the cases affect, which prosecutor, which judge? Or should we not mention that they are known to the Party?
And what is more tragicomic: even the Police, the "lauded partner", had received notification 24 hours before the operation. In other words, even Dumani no longer trusts the "forces of order". And Mr. Proda, maybe it's time to understand: you too will eat it with the famous formula "in the name of doubt..."
And for God's sake, don't go to conferences about operations that have been in the news since last May, while criminals held the microphone in the campaign and laid the foundations in the middle of the city.
If this is the new justice, then you have built the bridge well: it connects crime with power, and SPAK with silence.