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Im Betrugs Sumpf der Albanischen Mafia werden die Antiken Staetten zerstoert und verkauft

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

Im Sumpf einer Dumm Klasse primitiver Minister und Regierung ist Alles moeglich! Also wird jede Art von Geld gestohlen, Antike Staetten vermietet und verkauft, betoniert wie in Durres, wo ins Theater Abwaesser laufen, illegaler Bauten am Antiken Theater, wo ab 1996 die Berisha Mafia baute, welche keine Kultur kennt.

Museums Direktoren geben Auskunft, ueber den desolaten Zustand, wo Idioten, Ziegenhirten und Krimnelle im Ministerium fuer die Antiken Staetten zustaendig sind! Die UNESCO hat schon angedroht den Titel Welt Kultur Erbe, fuer die Staette: Berat, Gjorokastre und Butring zu entfernen, wegen illegalen Bauten usw..

21 MAY 13
Troubled Albanian Museum Sunk by Hoxha Row

Donors spent hundreds of thousands of euro building a new museum in Gjirokastra – but the results were questionable and it ultimately closed over an ideological dispute.

Besar Likmeta

BIRN Gjirokastra

Locked away in a complex of three galleries with soaring vaults and cupolas on the ground floor of Gjirokastra’s castle stand several photographic stands, a flat screen TV with a DVD player, and two displays of artifacts.

Although donors and the government spent nearly half a million euro on preparing the galleries for exhibits, the roof of the castle still leaks, creating large pools of water among the stands.

Attendants will only turn on the lights on at the visitors’ own risk, warning that a short circuit due to humidity could happen at any moment. What should have been Gjirokastra’s newest museum named “A Chronicle in Stone’ is now closed to the general public.

The contents of the museum, which was created by the Gjirokastra Development Foundation, GCDO, were never approved by the State Committee on Monuments, which has disagreed over its content.

Experts complain that the museum is poorly designed and describe it as merely an exhibition. They have also questioned GCDO’s use of donor funds…..

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/troubled-albanian-museum-sunk-by-hoxha-row

NEW MUSEUM INSIDE GJIROKASTRA CASTLE

Author: Rudina Hoxha
Place: Albania
Date: 29 September 2010

Gjirokastra’s Old Castle

Gjirokastra’s Old Castle

A selection of the most attractive items representing Gjirokastra’s unique cultural heritage will be shown in the new museum, which is to open soon within the fortress of the city. Gjirokastra, a city in southern Albania,  is also known as the ‘stone city’ or the ‘city of 1000 steps.’ Its old town is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

South-East Europe: People and Culture paid a visit to Elenita Roshi, deputy director of the Gjirokastra Conservation and Developments Organisation (GCDO). She explained the origins of the idea to establish a museum inside the Gjirokastra fortress:

It has been five years since Gjirokastra was included on the World Heritage List. This city was the first one in Albania to achieve such a credit. Since then, tourist numbers have increased from 4,000 in 2005 to almost 20,000 this year. There is a lot to be said about Gjirokastra in terms of its cultural heritage starting from the custom of its polyphonic music to the traditions of folklore, weddings, funerals and others. All this is presented to the visitors in the new museum in the castle of Gjirokastra. The organisation I represent has been working for three years to improve the castle’s visitors’ experience.

What is particular about this museum?

Two thousand years of history will be represented in this new museum once it opens. Inside the castle, the museum offers a beautiful space which has an interesting story behind it. It used to be an old part of the castle used for military purposes, then it was used as a cheese depot in the service of the army during the communist era. And now it has been restored to house a museum with the aid of many donors, among which the US Embassy to Tirana that donated some $48,000 for the restoration of this museum.

The biggest dilemma when you have to restore one of the largest castles in the Balkans in the centre of a medieval city with 2,200 houses and 600 monuments is how to make it easier for the visitors, for the local youth and the community to grasp and understand what it represents. So far, people know what they see of Gjirokastra: the cobbled streets, the large characteristic houses and the stone roofs. What they don’t know is what lies behind them. The best of this region’s culture will be put in place in this museum.

Part of the new exhibition in the castle of Gjirokastra

Part of the new exhibition in the castle of Gjirokastra

Gjirokastra will not be only a tourist destination but also a centre of cultural research?

There is a high interest on the part of foreigners and international organisations to work in Gjirokastra. In July 2010, the United Nations and GCDO, with the support of Spanish funding, set up a centre for the training of the handicrafts in Gjirokastra. The “Cultural Heritage Without Borders”, a Swedish organisation with a rich international experience,  is cooperating with GCDO for two years now with the goal to restore two houses which will serve as premises for restoration camps for students from Albania and abroad. Students of cultural heritage come here to learn about the methods of restoring the wood and the roofs of the characteristic houses of Gjirokastra as well as how to prepare the typical wall plaster that the locals use for their own house walls.

How present will iso-polyphonic music be in this museum?

We are pleased that organisations such as Vodafone Albania Foundation are interested in the cultural heritage of Albania. The support of this foundation will help us to ensure the presence of iso-poliphony in the museum. This type of music in which several different tunes are sung together at the same time is not only a local tradition; it is also of unique value to our nation.

Are young people interested in this musical heritage?

There is no school to learn iso-polyphony in Albania. Yet, it was always sung at weddings and other occasions. Fortunately, the tradition of singing in cafés has been retained by people in Gjirokastra. It often happens that several men gather in a café in the old bazaar of Gjirokastra and begin singing. But the youngsters do not spend much time in the bazaar. So, it was important for us to make an effort in order to find a way how to pass iso-polyphony on to the other generations. GCDO and one of the best local singers of this type of music, Roland Çenko, proposed a project to the English Vodafone Albania Foundation. This organisation is running a programme called The World of Difference. Vodafone Albania found the project attractive and financed it. Competitions are being held in the nine secondary schools of Gjirokastra. At the end, the two best groups will record CDs with their songs. Women also like to sing “iso” showing that this genre is no longer only a male tradition.

http://www.southeast-europe.eu/index.php?id=1483

 

Das Mafia MTKRS Minister in Albanien mit der Tradition die Antiken Stätten zu zerstoeren

Der Profi Gangster des Stadtrates von Durres: Edjon Abbas wurde verhaftet, wegen Hehlerei von Antiken Kunst Werken

Die MTKRS Verbrecher, etliche leben auch in Durres  und arbeiten an ihren gefaelschten Grundstuecks Dokumenten, wie Odeta Nishani usw.! Hier die Antiken Steine auf dem Museums Gelaende in der Rruga Taulantia.

Digital Camera

Man findet dann diese Steine, welche man mit Polizei Duldung in einer Minute abtransportieren kann auch am Sonntag vor dem Buero der Mafia Notare, welche Lizensen erneut unter Bujar Nishani und gegen Geld erhielten.

Digital Camera

Am Sonntag, den 12. Mai 2013. Man will nun diese Antiken Staetten privatisieren, was bei dem Betonismus der duemmsten Regierung, zu weiterem Chaos fuehren wird.

Monumentet, ja propozimet për t’u dhënë me qira

Kalaja e Beratit
Kalaja e Shkodrës
Kalaja e Delvinës, Sarandë
Kalaja e Këlcyrës, Përmet
Kalaja e Pogradecit
Kalaja e Kepit të Rodonit
Kalaja e Kardhiqit, Gjirokastër
Kalaja e Libohovës, Gjirokastër
Kalaja e Melanit, Gjirokastër
Kalaja e Borshit, Sarandë
Kalaja e Bashtovës, Kavajë
Kalaja e Porto-Palermos, Vlorë
Kalaja e Kaninës, Vlorë
Kalaja e Pllocës, Vlorë
Kalaja e Peqinit
Kalaja e Ali Pashës, Xarë, Sarandë
Kalaja e Ali Pashës në hyrje të Vivarit, Sarandë
Kalaja e Petrelës, Tiranë
Kalaja e Prezës, Vorë, Tiranë
Hamami i Krujës
Hamami i Durrësit
Hamami i Slatinjës

http://www.balkanweb.com/kryesore/1/nga-shkodra-ne-vlore-lista-e-22-kalave-qe-do-i-jepen-me-qira-biznesit-131962.html

Looters destroy medieval frescoes in Albania
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Lindsey Tugman

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ALBANIA (CBA) — In the years following the fall of Communism in Albania many Orthodox churches and monasteries fell victims to vandals and looters, many priceless works of religious art have been stolen or destroyed. The recent act of theft at a medieval church that left historic frescoes ruined or badly damaged has finally caused a public uproar.

Several frescoes by highly-revered medieval painter Onufri were vandalized and partially stolen from a 16th-century Orthodox church in southern Albania.

Looters tried to cut through the plaster of Saint Friday’s chapel to remove the Saints’ aureoles, but managed only to destroy them.

Konstantin Mecka, resident of a nearby village, could not tolerate the destruction of the country’s cultural heritage and decided to guard the church, as his forefathers did. He says that he was named after Emperor Constantine the Great, and one of the main frescos depicting him is amongst the looted ones.

“These invaluable works of Onufri are being destroyed by criminals hand due to the lack of care and neglect of the institutions, as you can see the most beautiful frescoes are destroyed. I do this (guarding the church) because my heart tells me to,” said Mecka.

Onufri, the most revered icon painter in Albania, lived in the 16th century. In 1554 he settled in a village of Valsh and painted walls of its small church. He is known for using brighter colors and introducing more realistic style of painting and more real and individual facial expressions, breaking with strict conventions of Byzantine style.

Konstantin Shqahu, the Mayor of Gjinar municipality, where the vandalized church belongs to, calls on UNESCO and donors to help to restore “Shen Premtja” church, as it is a Unesco world heritage site.

“We told the institutions in charge that the restoration of St. Friday’s church is a problem which should be dealt with but up to now the restoration hasn’t started yet. The municipality of Gjinar has small budget and doesn’t have resources to fund the restoration,” Shqahu told Reuters.

Officials say that only in the past two years more than twenty Orthodox churches and monasteries have been looted.

Another looted and vandalized church in desperate need of restoration is the 13th century church of Saint Kolli. According to the architect and restorer Reshat Gega this church is one of the most important monuments of Byzantine era not only in Albania but on the territory of the former Byzantine empire. The church with unique architecture is in danger of collapsing due to the original construction flaws and negligence.

“I know for a fact that money was available, but it was not used for it (restoration). The blame lies with the Institution for Cultural Monuments and its director, who as I’ve said earlier created a situation which I now can call criminal without hesitation,” said Gega… http://www.thv11.com/news/article/263375/288/Looters-destroy-medieval-frescoes-in-Albania-
Die Durres Mafia und Antike Stätten und Anarchie Chaos rund um das Antike Theater in Durres
The 14 Most Endangered European Heritage Sites

Posted: 05/19/2013 12:59 pm EDT

Some of the most important cultural sites in Europe are in danger of disappearing.

Last month, landmarks preservation group Europa Nostra shortlisted 14 of the continent’s endangered cultural heritage sites hoping to garner attention and inspire action to prevent their continued decay. Among these landmarks are churches, archaeological sites, and historic neighborhoods.

Of the nominated sites, seven will be chosen on June 16 as the most endangered. Europa Nostra plans to dispatch “rescue teams” to survey each site and develop rehabilitation plans, which will be presented to the European Heritage Policy Conference in Brussels this December.

“With this new advocacy program, Europa Nostra aims not only to identify the most endangered monuments and sites in Europe but also to launch a true call for action,” Europa Nostra’s executive president Denis de Kergorlay said in a press release. “By sending multidisciplinary teams of experts to visit the selected sites, together with our partners, we will seek to contribute to finding sustainable and viable solutions for the future. In this way, we hope to inspire and encourage action by various public and private organisations also in other places in Europe and beyond.”

The 7 Most Endangered program launched last January, inspired by the success of a similar initiative by the U.S. National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Check out the 14 most endangered heritage sites in Europe:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/19/most-endangered-european-heritage-sites_n_3294405.html?ir=World#slide=2468615

Der Partner von Bodo Hombach: Miskovic might be sentenced to 19 and half years behind bars

Friday, May 10th, 2013
Miskovic might be sentenced to 19 and half years behind bars
Miskovic might be sentenced to 19 and half years behind bars
Miroslav Miskovic, owner of the Delta Holding, his son Marko and Milo Djuraskovic, owner of the Nibens Group might be sentenced…»

Exclusively: Minutes from Beko’s testifying

Exclusively: Minutes from Beko’s testifying

Testifying by Milan Beko regarding business dealing of the Belgrade Port caused different interpretations in public especially… »

Blic learns: Milan Beko accuses his former partner Miskovic
Blic learns: Milan Beko accuses his former partner Miskovic
Businessman Milan Beko said during hearing at the police yesterday that he ‘was transferring the money from the Belgrade… »
For five Dollars one can buy three times less in Serbia than in USA
For five Dollars one can buy three times less in Serbia than in USA

A portal www.buzzfeed.com carried out a research as to how much food can be bought for five Dollars in various countries. The prices compared were those of bananas, coffee, meet, beer, potato, rice and…»

 

Kosovo organ trafficking scandal widens

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
Kosovo organ trafficking scandal widens

 

EU prosecutors to  investigate if key government figures were involved

Eric Randolph

Sunday, 5 May 2013

EU prosecutors will investigate key government figures in Kosovo for any involvement in an international organ trafficking network that lured poor donors into the country, harvested their kidneys and sold them to wealthy recipients for huge profits, sources close to the case have confirmed.

Shaip Muja, a member of parliament and former health adviser to the current Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, is expected be one of eight people indicted in a second round of investigations into the activities of the Medicus clinic in the Kosovan capital of Pristina, where at least 24 illegal transplants took place in 2008.

Five people were last week found guilty of human trafficking and illegal organ transplants in the first phase of the trial, including the urologist Lutfi Dervishi, the clinic’s director, and his son, Arban, who were sentenced to eight and seven years respectively. It is thought to be the first time in the world that medical doctors have been found complicit in human trafficking and organised crime.

The EU’s rule of law mission, known as Eulex, says it cannot yet confirm the identities of those it is investigating in the second phase. But an amended indictment introduced towards the end of the first trial said the Medicus doctors held “repeated consultations and several meetings with senior officials in the government of Kosovo”, including Mr Muja and the then Minister of Health, Alush Gashi.

Jonathan Ratel, the lead prosecutor, told The Independent: “The new investigation emerges directly out of evidence given in the first trial, including witnesses, as identified in the amended indictment.”

Mr Muja testified during the trial that he had met the doctors, who had applied for a licence to conduct transplants. He denied knowledge of the trafficking ring.

Interpol is still hunting the Turkish surgeon Yusuf Sonmez, dubbed “Dr Frankenstein” in the Turkish media, who is said to have conducted most of the operations at the Medicus clinic. Mr Ratel believes he is continuing his operations in South Africa, having escaped house detention in Istanbul.

The Medicus scandal first came to light in 2008 when a Turkish man collapsed at Pristina airport after selling his kidney at the clinic. It gradually emerged that dozens of impoverished donors had been trafficked into Kosovo from several countries, including Russia, Moldova and Ukraine. Some were paid as little as $10,000 (£8,400) for their kidney, which was then sold to recipients, mostly from Israel, for as much as $130,000.

Expanding investigations to include government figures close to Mr Thaci puts the EU in a difficult position. Sources close to the investigation say there has been a reluctance among top officials in Brussels to press ahead with the organ trafficking trial in case it upsets Kosovo’s fragile transition process.

They claim it is only the determination of individual prosecutors that has kept the trial alive.

“There is a perception Eulex doesn’t want to rock the boat with too many high-level indictments. Stability is priority No 1 for the international community,” said a Western diplomat on condition of anonymity.

Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008. Two weeks ago, Serbia agreed to recognise Kosovo’s sovereignty for the first time, but implementing the agreement is fraught with difficulties due to opposition from some of the Serb minority inside Kosovo.

In January, Eulex’s outgoing deputy head of mission, Andy Sparkes, admitted that political pressure was hindering progress on corruption cases. “There are occasions when [stability] can sit uneasily with the requirements of the rule of law,” he told the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network…

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/kosovo-organ-trafficking-scandal-widens-8604567.html?origin=internalSearch#

Sahit Muaj – Lufti Dervishi – German Professors: Kosovo Convicts Five Over Human Organ Trafficking

Shaip Muja, the UCK doctor and high criminal in Tirana and Kosovo.

“Medikus”, hetohet ish-ministri i Shëndetësisë
07/05/2013

Naser Kelmendi and – Police Swoop on Suspected Gangsters in Bosnia

Monday, May 6th, 2013

update 6.5.2013 now he is arrested

Mon May 6, 2013 4:32am EDT

(Reuters) – Police in Kosovo have arrested Naser Kelmendi suspected by the United States of trafficking heroin and cocaine to Europe through the Balkans, a senior police source said on Monday.

“He was arrested last night in Pristina,” the source, who asked not to be identified, said. A police spokesman was not immediately available to comment because of a public holiday in Kosovo.

(Reporting by Fatos Bytyci, writing by Daria Sito-Sucic; Editing by Janet Lawrence)

Monday, 16 November 2009
By The Center for Investigative Reporting in Sarajevo.
Naser Kelmendi, whose alleged drug dealing has long made him a target of Balkan law enforcement agencies, is facing more scrutiny after SIPA made a special presentation to Interpol in Lyon, France outlining what it calls his criminal network. 

Naser Kelmendi

Naser Kelmendi

Three law enforcement agencies in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) have spent years investigating Naser Kelmendi, a Sarajevo businessman who came to the country from Kosovo soon after the war in BiH and built what investigators describe as a Balkan criminal empire.

Kelmendi, his sons and his half-brother, Bećir, run a number of firms in BiH, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo, and do business with some of the region’s big businessmen.

The State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) has collected an extensive dossier on Kelmendi, 52, who they say has a criminal organization with connections to influential people.

Federation of BiH (FBiH) police officials say their colleagues across Europe are acquainted with his history; SIPA officials gave a presentation on Kelmendi to Interpol in Lyon, France in 2008.

Although there have been numerous complaints against him, he has never been to trial in BiH.

balkan-spezial

Godfather of the Bosnia Mafia and Security Minister: Fahrudin Radončić and his Partner Mafia Boss: Naser Kelmendi 

13 Sep 12 / 11:14:19
Police Swoop on Suspected Gangsters in Bosnia

Bosnian police arrested 25 suspected criminals and raided dozens of sites in what has been called the “largest police action since the [1995] Dayton Accords”.

Elvira M. Jukic

BIRN

Sarajevo The police action, codenamed “Lutka”, ["Doll"], conducted on September 12 at locations in towns across Bosnia, resulted in the arrest of 25 suspected members of organized Balkan crime rings, police said.

The Bosnian Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday said that all relevant police agencies had joined the State Investigative and Protection Agency, SIPA, in investigating at least six unsolved murders and attempted murders, major bank robberies and other grave criminal acts.

“This action is the most extensive action in the fight against the organized crime in post-Dayton Bosnia,” the Prosecutor’s office said, referring to the accord that ended the 1992-5 war in the country.

“This is an investigation into several criminal groups… and significant collaboration of police and judicial agencies was achieved with neighboring countries, where a number of the suspects also reside,” the Bosnian Prosecutor said on Wednesday.

The crimes in which the arrested men are suspected of involvement relate to the last ten years and include some of the biggest murder cases in post-war Bosnia.

Among the raided locations, SIPA raided the Hotel Casa Grande in Ilidza, near Sarajevo, owned by Naser Kelmendi, an alleged Balkan drugs boss.

Asked about Kelmendi, the director of SIPA, Goran Zubac, said in Sarajevo on Wednesday that he could not give any exact details, but he divulged that some of the arrested men were state officials, including members of SIPA.

The Center for Investigative Journalism, CIN Bosnia, reported that the arrested men include Bojan Cvijan, former chief of the Narcotics Department in SIPA, and Ljubisa Lalovic, a former employee of the Bosnian Border Police.

Zubac said that some of the arrested men “were part of the security and other structures of the Bosnian authorities.

“This is the beginning of the end of organized crime in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” Zubac claimed.

…………

http://www.balkaninsight.com

naser

Arrestohet Naser Kelmendi. SHBA e konsideron “personin më të rrezikshëm në Evropë”

Godfather of the Bosnia Mafia and Security Minister: Fahrudin Radončić and his Partner Mafia Boss: Naser Kelmendi

Sahit Muaj – Lufti Dervishi – German Professors: Kosovo Convicts Five Over Human Organ Trafficking

Wednesday, May 1st, 2013

Dick Marty – EULEX: Kosovo organ trade probe will be “inevitably long

29 Apr 13
Kosovo Convicts Five Over Human Organ Trafficking

A Kosovo court has convicted five men of participating in an illegal organ-trading ring that harvested and sold human kidneys at the Medicus clinic near Pristina.

Edona Peci
BIRN

Pristina

The court in Pristina on Monday found the former owner of the Medicus clinic, Lutfi Dervishi, guilty of organised crime and people-trafficking, sentenced him to eight years in prison and imposed a fine of 10,000 euro.

His son Arban Dervishi was found guilty of the same charges and sentenced to seven years and three months in prison, and fined 2,500 euro.

Both of them were ordered to pay compensation of 15,000 euro to each of around seven victims of the organ-trafficking ring, which lured poor donors to the Kosovo clinic with false promises of lucrative payments, then removed their kidneys and sold them to rich patients.

The clinic’s head anaesthetist Sokol Hajdini was found guilty of grievous bodily harm and sentenced to three years in prison.

Assistant anaesthetists Islam Bytyqi and Sylejman Dula were found guilty of grievous bodily harm and sentenced to a year’s imprisonment, suspended for two years.

However a senior official at the Kosovo health ministry, Ilir Rrecaj, was acquitted of abusing his official position, while doctor Driton Jilta’s charge of illegal medical activity was thrown out by the court due to lack of evidence.

The verdict came after the court heard sometimes gruesome testimony from around 80 witnesses.

The indictment says around 30 illegal kidney transplants took place at the clinic in 2008.

Poor people from Turkey, Russia, Moldova and Kazakhstan were allegedly brought to the clinic after being assured that they would receive up to 15,000 euro for their kidneys.

The EU rule of law mission prosecutor in the case said that transplant recipients, mainly Israelis, paid more than 70,000 euro for the kidneys…………………

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-convicts-five-over-human-organ-trafficking

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30 Apr 13 EU Launches New Kosovo Organ Trafficking ProbeAfter five men were convicted of involvement in the illegal trading of human organs from a Kosovo clinic, EU prosecutors said they were investigating eight new suspects.

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Election in Albania: Chaos – Albania Nationalists Divided Ahead of Polls

Wednesday, May 1st, 2013

29 Apr 13
Albania Nationalists Divided Ahead of Polls

Key officials from the nationalist Red and Black Alliance have left the party, accusing its leader Kreshnik Spahiu of ignoring their opinions two months before parliamentary elections.

Besar Likmeta
BIRN

Tirana

Red and Back Alliance leader Kreshnik Spahiu

“Spahiu is not acting in the national interest but rather for personal interests,” said Dashamir Uruci, the party’s secretary for economic affairs, who resigned on Monday.

Meanwhile the party’s agriculture secretary, Ago Nezha, who also resigned, said in an interview with the daily Shekulli that Spahiu ran the party as his own business.

“When it came to decision-making, [decisions] were not taken in a collegial way,” he said.

“Decisions were taken in a clandestine and diabolic manner,” he added.

According to local media, nearly two dozen members of the presidency of the Red and Black Alliance resigned after its leader Spahiu announced that it would not join the Socialist-led opposition coalition ahead of the June 23 parliamentary elections.

“Spahiu did not even ask when he decided to run alone in the elections,” Uruci claimed.

A spokesperson for the Red and Black Alliance was not reachable for comment on Monday.

The Socialists have accused Spahi of covertly conspiring with Prime Minister Sali Berisha to bleed votes from the opposition ranks.

In a blog published on Wednesday, Socialist leader Edi Rama said that Spahiu had asked to nominate five MPs from the Socialist electoral roll in order to join the opposition coalition.

“It’s a shame that he used national symbols in order save the corrupt regime [of Prime Minister Sali Berisha], which he claims to be fighting,” Rama wrote.

In an interview with the daily Panorama, Spahiu denied seeking to include his party members in the Socialist MP list, and said the disagreement with the Socialist Party was ideological.

“Our two main conditions for a coalition were the removal of the border with Kosovo and a pact to jail Berisha, which were categorically refused,” Spahiu said.

…..http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/albania-nationalists-divided-ahead-of-polls

 

01 May 13
OSCE Urges End to Albania Poll Row

The OSCE has called for the power struggle between Albanian political parties to control the Central Electoral Commission to be resolved before the June 23 parlimentary elections.

Serbia: Report of the Commission for Investigating the Killings of Journalists

Sunday, April 21st, 2013

Reports

Report of the Commission for Investigating the Killings of Journalists
9.04.2013. | Comments: 0 A session of the commission (B92)

The Commission was established two months ago with the aim of making additional efforts in investigating the reasons as to why the murderers and those who ordered the killings of the journalists Dada Vujasinovic, Slavko Curuvija and Milan Pantic were

Albanian`s election?

Friday, April 19th, 2013

 

18 Apr 13
Albania Election Commission Row Alarms US

The Unites States expressed concern on Monday that a power struggle among Albanian parties to control the Central Electoral Commission, CEC, will hamper the June 23 elections.

Besar Likmeta
BIRN

Tirana

Waiting for the voting centre to open – Albanian parliamentary elections, Vlora, 3 July 2005 | Photo by : OSCE/Karin Fallman

“We are concerned about the political tensions that we have noticed, as we head toward this election process,” Jonathan Moore, Director for Southern and Central European Affairs in the US State Department said in Tirana.

Moore visited Tirana on the heels of a controversial vote in parliament on Monday, which sacked a member of the Central Electoral Commission, CEC, who had been proposed by the Socialist Movement for Integration, LSI.

A former junior government partner, the LSI left the government two weeks ago to join the Socialist-led opposition ahead of the June 23 parliamentary elections.

The opposition condemned the vote, arguing that there was no legal basis to dismiss the commissioner and that his sacking put the independence of the CEC at risk.

The CEC is a seven-member collegial body tasked with overseeing elections in Albania. Although, its members are proposed by political parties, with a formula that grants the

ruling coalition the right to propose four of the seven members, the CEC is considered an independent institution.

Two other member of the CEC, who had been proposed by the opposition Socialists, resigned in protest on Monday and Tuesday after parliament sacked their colleague, describing the move as unconstitutional.

A third member, from the Union for Human Rights, the Greek minority party, suspended work in protest on Thursday, bringing the commission to a standstill.

According to the electoral code, over the next two days the Socialist-led opposition needs to nominate two new candidates for the CEC, then to be approved in parliament. However, the Socialists have declared that they will withhold the nominations.

Moore said that parliament’s decision to sack the CEC commissioner was highly questionable from a legal basis; however, parties had to find a way to move the process forward, he added.

“We want the CEC to function, because if this does not happen, there will be no elections on June 23,” he concluded.

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/us-concerned-over-albania-s-election-row

Skandal: Alters seniler PPE Vorsitzender: Wilfried Martens plabbert dem Gangster Salih Berisha, wie ein Kind Alles nach

Slavisa Sovtic, the Chief for Fight Against organized crime (UBPOK) – Stronger than any mafia?

Thursday, April 18th, 2013
Slavisa Sovtic, new SBPOK Chief

The newest joke in serbia!

Stronger than any mafia

Ivana Mastilović Jasnić | 18. 04. 2013. – 02:00h | Comments 0

‘I am not going to make any promises but I can say that the police are working on the arrest of Darko Saric’, Slavisa Sovtic, the new Chief-of-Staff of the Service for Fight Against organized crime (UBPOK) says in his interview with Blic.

Slavisa Sovtic

According to his words the police are also working on locating and arrest of all other members of Saric’s criminal group. One of five men who took part in establishment of the UBPOK and then SBPOK, claims to be acquainted with all measures undertaken in fight against organized crime. He is convinced that his experience and approach to problems shall considerably contribute to tackling of the crime.

 

 

Q: The First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said that ‘Saric shall be arrested in the first half of the year’?
‘The police do not like to talk about deadlines but I am sure that all steps and actions shall be undertaken that the timing that Mr. Vucic mentioned is fulfilled’.

 

Q: What is the first thing you shall do as the SBPOK Chief-of-Staff?

‘I shall insist on the operational work. The SBPOK is the most important segment of the fight against organized crime and corruption. I can promise undertaking of even more intensive action in the period to come so that the State shows that it is stronger that any mafia’.

 

Q: What has been, according to your opinion, the biggest challenge in your career?
‘That is cooperation with police of other countries or continents, the South America, the West Europe and the region. It is difficult to persuade colleagues you know by exchanged mails only that criminals from international wanted lists are in their territories. Some of such actions lasted for months, some for years. We have passed that exam’.

 

Q: Can you mention an action you think to be the most difficult one?
‘That was the beginning of 2000 and destruction of the Zemun gang, then identification of Darko Saric’s group. Both cases are specific and very difficult’.

 

Q: Some of your colleagues told us that you are a professional without mercy. Why do they say so?
‘They say so probably because I insist on work, order, discipline, honesty and determination’.

 

Biography
Slavisa Sovtic graduated from the Faculty of Security. He has been working at the Home Ministry since 1992. As of 2000 he has been a member of an operational working group that worked on tackling the most complex forms of crime.
He has been awarded for the results of his work. He used to work on the cases of murder, abduction, extortion and blackmailing. From 2003 to 2006 he was that department’s chief. At that time he was decorated for merits in the sphere of defense and security. From 2006 until April 2013 he was chief-of-staff of the Department for Criminal-Operational Analytics. He is member of the Commission dealing with investigations on murder of journalists. http://english.blic.rs/In-Focus/9582/Stronger-than-any-mafia/print

Montenegrin Crime Figure Assasinated: Anton Stanaj – Partner of VW / Roksped

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013

Montenegrin Crime Figure Assasinated
Tuesday, 12 March 2013 17:42

Anton

By Bojana Jovanovic and Stevan Dojcinovic

Anton Stanaj, a Montenegrin business owner and convicted cigarette-smuggling kingpin, was killed Friday in Sudan, allegedly murdered in his hotel room.

After serving three-and-a-half years in prison in Serbia for his role as the head of a group of international cigarette smuggleres, Stanaj was free on an usnusual agreement after posting “bail” of €400,000 that granted him the ability to travel before serving the remainder of his 6-year sentence.

According to court records, Stanaj ran a cigarette smuggling group using the business structure and connections of his family company, Roksped, which is the exclusive importer of cigarettes for Montenegro.

The company, owned by Anton’s father, Rocco Stanaj, imported cigarettes from 2004 to 2007 into Montenegro via offshore companies registered in Cyprus and in Delaware, and then sold those cigarettes tax-free in Montenegro.

Records show that the imported cigarettes were also smuggled into Serbia, and from there to Croatia, Hungary, Austria, Slovenia and other countries in the European Union.

The indictment by the Special Prosecutor for Organized Crime in Serbia alleges that in addition to the original smuggled and counterfeit cigarettes, the company also sold cigarettes it purchased from other manufacturers in Dubai, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, China and Serbia.

Despite Anton Stanaj being arrested and tried for smuggling cigarettes, the Roksped company was never investigated for its role in the scam. Instead, the company was involved in the privatization of agricultural companies and wineries in Serbia.

Even Japan Tobacco International (JTI), one of the largest international cigarette companies, did not want to terminate its relationship with Roksped despite the fact that two JTI brands, Winston and Monte Carlo, were among those Stanaj smuggled. The company has so far remained the exclusive distributor for JTI in Montenegro.

Former minister in Stanaj Network

Serbian authorities never launched an investigation into the Stanaj family’s financial operations in Serbia, and therefore never determined where the company invested its cigarette smuggling proceeds.

However, research by the Center for Investigative Journalism in Serbia (CINS) and the regional network of journalists at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) revealed that Anton Stanaj had business contacts in high places. He worked not only with players in the criminal world, but also with well-known Serbian businessmen like Bogdan Rodic, and even with the former Minister of Energy from Djindjic’s government, Goran Novakovic.

Anton Stanaj’s closest collaborator, however, was his friend Zoran Copic, who was indicted in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina for several crimes including laundering money for fugitive drug boss Darko Saric.

Copic’s business deals in Serbia were mostly done through Roksped’s Serbian subsidiaries Europamont, based in Novi Sad. According to an investigation by OCCRP/CINS, that company, both in partnership with Copic and independently, bought interests in the many companies, including Agrovojvodina, Agrocoop, Zmaj, Stanisic, Banat seeds, Mlinpek, Erdevik, Secer + or “Sugar Plus”, MEA and Panonliv.
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The business scheme of the Zmaj company

Copic confirmed to OCCRP reporters that he also participated in the privatizations with Roksped, saying that Anton Stanaj and his brother Nuo were long-time friends of Copic’s.

Most of the privatizations ended in bankruptcy.

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Montenegrin Crime Figure Assasinated

Tuesday, 12 March 2013 17:42
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Anton

By Bojana Jovanovic and Stevan Dojcinovic

Anton Stanaj, a Montenegrin business owner and convicted cigarette-smuggling kingpin, was killed Friday in Sudan, allegedly murdered in his hotel room.

After serving three-and-a-half years in prison in Serbia for his role as the head of a group of international cigarette smuggleres, Stanaj was free on an usnusual agreement after posting “bail” of €400,000  that granted him the ability to travel before serving the remainder of his 6-year sentence.

According to court records, Stanaj ran a cigarette smuggling group using the business structure and connections of his family company, Roksped, which is the exclusive importer of cigarettes for Montenegro.

The company, owned by Anton’s father, Rocco Stanaj, imported cigarettes from 2004 to 2007 into Montenegro via offshore companies registered in Cyprus and in Delaware, and then sold those cigarettes tax-free in Montenegro.

Records show that the imported cigarettes were also smuggled into Serbia, and from there to Croatia, Hungary, Austria, Slovenia and other countries in the European Union.

The indictment by the Special Prosecutor for Organized Crime in Serbia alleges that in addition to the original smuggled and counterfeit cigarettes, the company also sold cigarettes it purchased from other manufacturers in Dubai, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, China and Serbia.

Despite Anton Stanaj being arrested and tried for smuggling cigarettes, the Roksped company was never investigated for its role in the scam. Instead, the company was involved in the privatization of agricultural companies and wineries in Serbia.

Even Japan Tobacco International (JTI), one of the largest international cigarette companies, did not want to terminate its relationship with Roksped despite the fact that two JTI brands, Winston and Monte Carlo, were among those Stanaj smuggled. The company has so far remained the exclusive distributor for JTI in Montenegro.

Former minister in Stanaj Network

Serbian authorities never launched an investigation into the Stanaj family’s financial operations in Serbia, and therefore never determined where the company invested its cigarette smuggling proceeds.

However, research by the Center for Investigative Journalism in Serbia (CINS) and the regional network of journalists at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) revealed that Anton Stanaj had business contacts in high places. He worked not only with players in the criminal world, but also with well-known Serbian businessmen like Bogdan Rodic, and even with the former Minister of Energy from Djindjic’s government, Goran Novakovic.

Anton Stanaj’s closest collaborator, however, was his friend Zoran Copic, who was indicted in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina for several crimes including laundering money for fugitive drug boss Darko Saric.

Copic’s business deals in Serbia were mostly done through Roksped’s Serbian subsidiaries Europamont, based in Novi Sad. According to an investigation by OCCRP/CINS, that company, both in partnership with Copic and independently, bought interests in the many companies, including Agrovojvodina, Agrocoop, Zmaj, Stanisic, Banat seeds, Mlinpek, Erdevik, Secer + or “Sugar Plus”, MEA and Panonliv.

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The business scheme of the Zmaj company

Copic confirmed to OCCRP reporters that he also participated in the privatizations with Roksped, saying that Anton Stanaj and his brother Nuo were long-time friends of Copic’s.

Most of the privatizations ended in bankruptcy.

Almost 4 million in tenders

Stanaj’s indictment in Serbia did not affect Roksped’s business in Montenegro. Instead, according to records obtained by OCCRP and CINS, Roksped went on to secure public procurement jobs worth €3.8 million  in the years after the charges, including a job selling tens of thousands of euros worth of cars and spare parts to the various Montenegrin government bodies. All of these deals were made while Stanaj was in prison.

Montenegrin media have not been writing about Stanaj’s criminal activities, presumably for fear of angering Roksped executives, who control the distribution of newspapers in Montenegro.

Criminal associates

According to a report CINS / OCCRP obtained from the State Agency for Investigation and Protection Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (SIPA), the Stanaj family is working closely with Naser Kelmendi, one of the most high-profile drug dealers in the region. Kelmendi,  who is originally from Kosovo, spent part of his life in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is now a fugitive.

In the same report, SIPA said that Anton Stanaj had close business ties with Ekrem Luka, one of the richest people in Kosovo, who controls the Serbian-Albanian mafia and drug trafficking between Pristina and Belgrade.

An agency called Laveco established Delaware-based companies for Stanaj. Laszlo Kiss, a Romanian businessman charged with money laundering and complicity in embezzlement was one of the formation agents of Laveco when Stanaj’s firm was registered.  Kiss was a representative for the former Taylor network, a New Zealand based registration company that registered firms for Hezbollah, organized crime groups and many other criminal groups.

Anton isn’t the only member of the Stanaj family with a criminal record. His brother, Nuo Stanaj was indicted in Serbia in 2011 for abuse of privatization, along with Copic. The indictment states that Nuo Stanaj, one of the owners of Agrocoop from August 2006 to February 2007, took part in the unlawful sale of corporate assets in Belgrade…..https://reportingproject.net/occrp/index.php/en/ccwatch/cc-watch-indepth/1878-montenegrin-crime-figure-assasinated

Varrimi-i-Anton-Stanaj

Biznismeni shqiptar nga Mali i Zi, Anton Stanaj, i vrarë para disa ditësh në Sudan besohet se është vrarë prej një shqiptari nga Kosova.

Mujo Sefa dyshohet se ka vrarë bashkëpronarin e kompanisë që drejtonin.

Nikolla Plumaj bashkëpunëtor i të dyve, i cili ka mbetur i plagosur thotë ata kanë punuar për transportimin e OKB-së
Trupi i Stanajevo ishte dërguar mbrëmë, rreth orës 21:00 në Podgoricë, pas rreth 19 orë me aeroplan nga Stambolli, arriti në Tiranë, ku u prit me brohorima nga vëllai Nuo, anëtarët e familjes dhe miqtë e shumtë.

“Ne kemi pasur një punë ku kamionëve të transportit. Ne kemi punuar për transportimin e OKB-së dhe OJQ-të nga Kenia në jug të Sudanit”, tha Plumaj.

Plumaj tregon se ai u vra me plumbin e parë.

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SPD Partner und VW General Vertreter in Montenegro – Drogen Boss: Anton Stanaj im Sudan hingerichtet

Anton Stanaj, Einer der Grossen, mit den üblichen Firmen Groupen von Hotels, Baufirmen und Tankstellen! Hier bei der Festnahme vor Jahren und anschliessenden Verurteilung.

VW – die Mafia Familie der Stanaj (Anton Stanaj) in Montenegro

seine Firmen:

ROKŠPED DOO Podgorica Company records
HOME DEPO DOO Company records
S PRESS DOO Company records
MONTENEGRO TRANS DOO Company records
ŠTAMPA AD Ownership
PRIVE PETROL DOO Company records
BALKAN GROUP MONTENEGRO DOO Company records
STANAX DOO Company records
GASTRON INVEST & TRADE Company records
KERNEL BUSINESS CORP. Company records
ROKŠPED VOJVODINA DOO Company records
EUROPAMONT DOO Company records
EUROPAMONT DOO List of aircraft by users
M.E.A. DOO Company records
PANONLIV DOO Company records
ŠEĆER PLUS DOO Company records
VRŠAČKI VINOGRADI AD purchase contract
AGROCOOP AD Central Securities Depository
ELNOS AGROVOJVODINA AD Central Securities Depository
STANIŠIĆ AD Central Securities Depository
Serbian Ministry of Interior, Information for public, 14.04.2011
AGROSTAN INVESTMENTS DOO Company records
AGROSTAN PLUS DOO Company records
Serbian Ministry of Interior, Information for public, 20.09.2010
BANAT SEME AD Central Securities Depository
MLINPEK AD Central Securities Depository
AGROVOJVODINA AD Purchase contract
AGROVOJVODINA AD Central Securities Depository
IKL AD Central Securities Depository
IKL AD loan contracts
Serbian Ministry of Interior, Information for public, 13.10.2010
ZMAJ AD purchase contract
ZMAJ AD Privatization Agency’s control report
ERDEVIK AD Central Securities Depository

Porsche hat natürlich auch in Belgrad eine Super Mafiöse Vertretung, was niemanden verwundert, wenn man so gute Berater Verträge hat bei der SPD. Prof. Hans-Joachim Selenz, gibt Auskunft.

vw selenz

http://www.hans-joachim-selenz.de/

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Serbien verhaften 100 Zöllner- und Polizei Beamte, rund um illegale Zigaretten Fabriken und Schmuggel

Godfather of the Bosnia Mafia and Security Minister: Fahrudin Radon?i? and his Partner Mafia Boss: Naser Kelmendi

Anton Stanaj, VW Vertreter und eng mit der Deutschen SPD verbunden, wie mit der Montenegro Mafia
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Die SPD spielt die wichtigste Rolle im Aufbau krimineller Politischer Systeme, praktisch in allen Balkan Ländern. Man redet viel über korrupte Regierungen, nur ist Berlin und Deutschland, ohne funktionierende Justiz der Motor der Auslands- und Balkan Bestechung!
Die Firma Roksped http://www.roksped.com/
Deutsche Politiker bemühten sich eifrig mit diesen Personen und den Top Mafiosi kriminelle Netzwerke aufzubauen, wo neben Mercedes aber auch Volkswagen in Tirana und Montenegro (Podgorica) so ein Muster Fall ist, warum Lobby Politiker genau mit diesen Banden zusammen arbeiteten und nicht nur mit der Hamburg Universität und dem sogenannten

Grösste Super Markt Kette in Montenegro

Der bekannte Mafia Clan: Anton Stanaj – Roksped kauft die Agrokor Super Märkte

Roksped new owner of Stampa

Treibstoff LKW der “Firma “Roksped (auch VW-Audi Vertretung)” in Durres, welche zum Mafia Clan Stanaj gehört, welche Lukoil Verträge hat und Lukoil Tankstellen in Montenegro.