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2026-09-25 08:31:00 / AKTUALITET ALFA PRESS

On the morning of September 22, State Police forces landed for a search of a fortified villa complex on the outskirts of Durrës – a suspected hideout of Ergys Agas during his months on the run.

According to SPAK's announcement, the search was carried out in implementation of a decision of the Special Court as part of a broader investigation undertaken against a circle of senior officials who are suspected of being in contact with or assisting Agas during his escape.

Subjects of the court decision for security measures or controls were the head of the State Intelligence Service, Vlora Hyseni, the former head of the State Police, Ilir Proda, and the official of the Institute of Scientific Police, Fatjon Kalluçi.

The complex is located at an intersection of the "Durrësi në Shekuj" road in the Shkozet area and consists of several buildings with high concrete walls, insulated windows and climbing plants that climb up to the upper floor.

 

Two sources familiar with the investigation told BIRN on condition of anonymity that the villa complex where Agasi was hiding, equipped with a high level of security, is owned by the “Troplini” clan, regardless of whose name these assets are registered in.

The "Troplini" group is considered by the Special Prosecution Office as one of the most dangerous organized crime groups in the country, with also reaching out to Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and Latin American countries.

On May 21, 2025, SPAK announced the crackdown on an international drug trafficking organization based in Durrës, one of whose leaders was Elvis Doçi. He escaped arrest and was declared wanted.

Doçi is known by the nickname "Visi i Pojës" due to his family ties to Xhevdet Troplini, a person also investigated in the mid-2000s by Italian justice for involvement in drug trafficking. No charges have been filed against Troplini by Albanian justice.

Ergys Agasi, 39, was wanted in December last year on charges of involvement in organized crime in the scandal of the National Agency for the Information Society, AKSHI, but was arrested eight months later, on August 26, in the area called Plepat in Durrës, while returning from Elbasan where he had stayed for a few hours. The investigation provided evidence showing that during the months of his escape, he moved freely from the place where he was hiding and continued to communicate with organized crime figures and state officials, mainly in Durrës, Tirana and Elbasan.

Sources familiar with the investigation told BIRN that although information about his whereabouts was frequent, an operation to capture Agas was only set in motion after a wave of changes among police leaders, which followed the departure of Ilir Proda from the position of head of the State Police.

The alleged involvement of the head of the secret service, Vlora Hyseni, in protecting Agas while he was sheltering in the Troplini group's compound widens the scandal, raising deep questions about the functioning of the key security institution in Albania and the relationship between senior public officials and exponents of organized crime.

According to data leaked to the media from the investigative file, from June to August of this year, more than 500 telephone communications in audio, video and messages were found between Hysen and Agas, in which she is directly identified with Agas' interests towards the justice institutions that were prosecuting him.

Hyseni is also accused not only of being willing to help Agas, but of making her quality as an official and the capacities of the institution she leads available to him.

Leaked messages in the media suggest that in a serious breach of duty, Hyseni informed Agas about meetings with Prime Minister Rama, senior state officials and foreign counterparts. Also, in a car belonging to Agas seized in July, nine large-format printouts of diagrams with data similar to those produced by the State Intelligence Service were found, which are in the process of verification.

In testimony before the Prosecution, Hyseni claimed that he had communicated with Agas after he was offered as a "collaborator", a version that is rejected by SPAK.

The investigations conducted so far by SPAK against Ergys Agas suggest that he has had influence over a number of senior officials in key institutions. The fugitive former deputy prime minister, Arben Ahmetaj, has publicly accused him of playing the role of “a coordinator” between the organized crime underworld and the government of Prime Minister Edi Rama./ BIRN

 

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