Langzeit Krimineller in der Politik, mit Berisha, Edi Rama, dem Vatikan: Tom Doshi
Law Breakers Turned Law Makers
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2. (C) Some of the more noteworthy MPs with ties to organized
crime are:
— Tom Doshi: An SP MP from Shkoder, Doshi, singled out in
the Human Rights Report for physically assaulting a
journalist in the Sheraton Hotel, was a key figure in
financing SP electoral efforts. He is known as the richest
MP, with a declared fortune of more than $15 million and is
also suspected of trafficking narcotics. Doshi served in the
previous parliament as a DP MP, before switching sides to the
SP shortly before the election.
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09TIRANA552_a.html
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- Tom Doshi, Kardinal von Skhoder
Influential Albanian Politician Led Organized Crime Group in Australia, Intelligence Reports Claim
Australia’s top criminal intelligence agency suspected Tom Doshi, a leading Albanian businessman and politician with ties to the prime minister, of leading a criminal group in the country that perpetrates immigration fraud, drug trafficking, and money laundering.
Key Findings
- Confidential intelligence documents from Australia claimed that Tom Doshi has headed an organized criminal group consisting largely of members of his family.
- His group, the reports say, forms part of a wider network that has exploited systemic weaknesses in Australia’s immigration system to get its Albanian members into Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth, and New South Wales.
- According to investigators, these clan-based Albanian gangs specialize in criminal activities like illegal cannabis cultivation, weapons, and drug trafficking.
Tom Doshi, a powerful Albanian businessman and politician tied to the country’s prime minister, is suspected of leading an organized criminal group implicated in money laundering, drug trafficking, and other offenses in Australia, according to confidential intelligence assessments.
This clan is among others from Shkodër, a county in northwest Albania, that have systematically abused Australia’s immigration system to build “an entire Albanian Organized Crime criminal structure” across South Australia, according to the reports.
The documents, produced by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) and circulated to domestic and foreign police agencies, draw on numerous reports from local police forces and information from foreign law enforcement bodies. They were seen by reporters from OCCRP and Australia’s The Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers.
The files describe how, since 2000, Albanian clans have used identity fraud and familial links to migration agents to move their people into Australia, setting up cells in Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth, and elsewhere.
Doshi is described in the files as the “head” of a syndicate “principally consisting of his extended family.” Though the documents contain no details about his specific activities, they note that eight of his relatives have been “implicated” in “drug and money laundering investigations,” in some cases as “primary targets.” His relatives are said in the reports to have gained Australian visas using spurious documentation. One is facing drug trafficking charges.
Doshi, who spent years in both countries, has not been charged with any crimes in Australia. In his homeland, he had built a business empire that has benefited extensively from state contracts. He was designated persona non grata by the United States in 2018 for “involvement in significant corruption” and forced out of his parliamentary seat in 2021 following years of high-profile scandals. His alleged involvement in the Australian criminal network has never been previously revealed.
“I have never in my life been involved in any way with drug smuggling, human trafficking, arms trafficking, money laundering, or illegal immigration in Australia, or Albania, or anywhere else,” Doshi wrote in response to reporters’ questions. “In fact, as a Member of the Albanian Parliament, I have been a strong supporter of the fight against these types of activities.”
“I have no connection to any Albanian ‘criminal clans’ based in Australia, or to any Albanian criminals anywhere,” he wrote. “My siblings and their children total 33. I have little to no contact with them other than to encounter them at funerals or family celebrations.”
‘They Like to Dominate’
Albanian criminal groups are highly active in the drug trade in the United Kingdom, Italy, and many other countries on multiple continents.
Their well-organized and systemic operations in Australia highlights the threat posed by their international expansion.
Among their chief skills, current and former law enforcement officers say, is taking advantage of immigration rules to smuggle their members into the countries in which they operate.
“Often applicants will apply for a particular visa knowing it will be rejected,” one of the Australian intelligence files reads, “but [they] exploit the lengthy appeal process so they can generate evidence to support a different visa application.”
“They’ve got facilitators, professional facilitators, to assist them, whether it’s through visa migration issues, legal or other means,” said Victoria Police Commander Paul O’Halloran. “They’re very adept.”
Albanian gangsters in Australia “can show extreme violence,” O’Halloran said, and they are regarded by his detectives as “highly dangerous.”
Tony Saggers, a former high-ranking officer in Britain’s National Crime Agency, has spent years on the trail of Albanian criminals.
“They put a lot of emphasis on being respected for what they do, and for doing it well,” he said of their involvement in the drug trade. “And just doing it isn’t enough for them. They like to dominate by gaining control of volume activity, proving they’re the best, and satisfying customer demand.”
A Criminal ‘Life Cycle’
The Australian intelligence documents seen by reporters outline what they call Albanian organized criminal groups’ five-stage “life cycle.”
First, they say, people are recruited in their home regions in Albania, sometimes on the false promise of finding work abroad. Second, they are brought into the country using false visa claims and fraudulent documents. Third, they manage to remain in Australia by taking advantage of lengthy visa reviews and trusted registered migration agents (some Albanians apply to stay in Australia by claiming that blood feuds back home would endanger them if they returned). Fourth, they carry out criminal activities. Fifth, they are arrested, convicted, and their visas are canceled.
Shkodër is identified as an epicenter from which many of these criminal groups originate, with five out of seven South Australian ACIC investigations between 2015 and 2020 featuring a “primary target” from the Albanian county.
Doshi, a political kingmaker in Shkodër, appears in the documents as the alleged leader of an organized crime group made up of his extended relatives referred to as the “Doshi family syndicate.” Investigators believe the clan engages in money laundering and exploits Australia’s migration system to facilitate its criminal activities.
Members of the clan, the documents say, were placed by Australian officials on an Albanian organized crime “persons of interest list.” This list was then shared with law enforcement agencies in multiple European countries. The document suggests that these agencies identified members of the Doshi clan on the list from their own investigations.
The documents also include a “case study” that describes a woman with “familial links to Doshi” working as a “registered migration agent” in Australia who “likely facilitates [criminal] activity by achieving migration outcomes for syndicate members arrested for cannabis cultivation and/or are closely connected to cocaine trafficking.”
The files do not mention any criminal allegations against the woman, and indicate that there are no “grounds to cancel [her] registration [as a migration agent] on the basis of criminal intelligence surrounding members of her immediate family.”
The files go into greater detail about two of Doshi’s nephews. The two men are said to be members of the Lleshi drug trafficking syndicate, a gang named after another family which, the documents say, uses funds from cannabis grow-house sales to import cocaine and meth into Australia.
Police arrested one of Doshi’s nephews in Adelaide in March 2022 and charged him with drug trafficking and money laundering after finding cocaine worth AU$1.6 million concealed inside a smoke machine.
The nephew had started visiting Europe frequently after acquiring Australian citizenship almost a decade earlier, the intelligence files say. Along the way, he and his family bought up expensive Australian properties, raising questions for investigators about his income. Court officials did not respond to questions about the current status of the case.
Doshi’s other nephew is no longer in Australia, but is suspected to still be involved in Albanian organized crime and high-level drug trafficking. He, too, has had numerous brushes with the law. According to his Australian immigration case file seen by reporters, he has a history of criminal convictions in the country dating back to 2012. The file cites a minister who rejected his visa application as saying: “I reasonably suspect that [he] has been or is a member of a group or organization … involved in criminal conduct.”
Back in Albania, he was accused in 2016 of assaulting a traffic police officer. The officer declined to press charges, and the outcome of the case is unknown.
Profil/ Kush është Tom Doshi. Nga ikja ne Australi, rikthimi i fuqishëm në politikë dhe përplasja me Edi Ramën
Kush është njeriu që u përmend në raportet e ambasadës amerikane në Tiranë dhe njeriu që është akuzuar nga kabllogramet e publikuara nga Wikileaks për trafikim narkotikësh dhe pastrim parash?
Tom Doshi, i përket moshës “së artë” asaj të shumicës së politikanëve shqiptarë. Është 49 vjeç dhe ka lindur në Shkodër. Fëmijërinë e ka kaluar në fshatin e tij të Nënshkodrës, në Trush, pinjoll i një familje të njohur me origjinë nga Kelmendi.
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Vatikan Gangster gibt es Viele in Albanien, siehe wikileaks CRIMINALS MAKING THE LAWS IN ALBANIA'S PARLIAMENT Date: 2009 August 13, 13:53 Law Breakers Turned Law Makers ------------------------------ 2. (C) Some of the more noteworthy MPs with ties to organized crime are: -- Tom Doshi: An SP MP from Shkoder, Doshi, singled out in the Human Rights Report for physically assaulting a journalist in the Sheraton Hotel, was a key figure in financing SP electoral efforts. He is known as the richest MP, with a declared fortune of more than $15 million and is also suspected of trafficking narcotics. Doshi served in the previous parliament as a DP MP, before switching sides to the SP shortly before the election. -- Lefter Koka: Representing LSI from Durres, Koka is a member of perhaps the most notorious organized crime family in Albania, with ties to narcotics and human trafficking and other illicit activities. ...................... https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09TIRANA552_a.html 24. Februar 2025, 12:26 Doshis Vorladung zum SPAK und Edi Ramas Ärger Geschrieben von Pamphlet Doshis Vorladung zum SPAK und Edi Ramas Ärger Das Abfangen der Starken zeigt, dass sich Babloku auf einem Minenfeld bewegt … Die Vorladung Tom Doshis zur SPAK aus dem Grund, den er selbst unmittelbar nach Verlassen der Vernehmung nannte, hat den Grund für die Drohung gegen die Sonderanklage durch Edi Rama vor einer Woche völlig aufgeklärt. Doshi sagte, er sei angerufen worden, nachdem er eine Person getroffen hatte, die von der Sonderstaatsanwaltschaft überwacht wurde. Er erwähnte den Namen nicht, aber es handelt sich wahrscheinlich um seinen alten Freund Qifja (Aqif Rakipi), der Bey dieses Gebiets von Rrogozhina bis Peqin ist. Diese Entwicklung im Vorfeld der Parlamentswahlen ist ein starkes Signal an die Politik und insbesondere an die Mehrheit nach der Drohung Edi Ramas. Er erklärte in einem Direktlink in den sozialen Medien, dass die SPAK sich von den Parlamentswahlen fernhalten solle, um Beamte und Politiker nicht abzuhören. Doch in Wirklichkeit bestand das Hauptziel von Edi Ramas Ultimatum gerade darin, die Abhörmaßnahmen gegen die starken Männer zu unterbinden, die seine wahre Wahlarmee darstellen. Das Erscheinen von Altin Dumani bei einem Treffen mit dem Vorsitzenden der Zentralen Wahlkommission, Ilirjan Celibashi, bei dem es um die Untersuchung von Wahlbetrug ging, löste bei der Mehrheit große Besorgnis aus. Der bekanntlich wie die Mafiosi der 80er Jahre die Anweisung erhalten hat, gefährliche Wahlgespräche am Telefon zu vermeiden. Ramas Angst besteht offenbar nicht darin, dass gegen Parteimitglieder oder sogenannte Klientelisten ermittelt wird, denn selbst wenn sie abgehört würden, würde sich kein „Fett vom Floh“ lösen. Doch wenn sich Persönlichkeiten aus der Kriminalität, insbesondere solche aus dem organisierten Verbrechen, zu Wort melden, dann haben wir es für Babloku mit einem Minenfeld zu tun. Und anscheinend wurde dieser Prozess auch durch das Vakuum, das die Amerikaner vor Ort hinterlassen hatten, nicht verzögert, da sie in Debar sofort die Wahloperation von 2016 in Gang setzten. Eine Operation, die sich später bei den Wahlen 2017 als erfolgreich erwies. Auf der anderen Seite standen Sali Berisha und Ilir Meta, die versuchten, die Umsetzung der Justizreform zu untergraben. Unterdessen scheint Edi Rama - wie die täglichen Fakten zeigen - mehr daran interessiert zu sein, eine Untersuchung gegen seine Armee von Machthabern zu vermeiden, als Lali Eri festzunehmen. Er hatte ihm alle politische Macht entzogen, als wolle er damit signalisieren, dass er ihn nicht beschützen würde. Die derzeit laufende Untersuchung der Wahlen in Rrogozhina wird höchstwahrscheinlich weitere Untersuchungen nach sich ziehen, wenn man den Materialien Glauben schenkt, die SPAK bei den Abhörmaßnahmen gefunden hat. Es scheint, als hätte Edi Rama davon erfahren und ihn deshalb vor einer Woche direkt erpresst. Bablokus Befürchtung liegt darin, dass er noch nicht herausgefunden hat, ob dieser „Tapferkeitsakt“ von SPAK auf Signale aus der anderen Seite des Ozeans zurückzuführen ist oder ob sie ihn einfach aus eigener Initiative vollführen. Deshalb begann man vor einigen Wochen mit einer intensiven Lobbyarbeit bei der Trump-Administration. Wie bekannt ist, wurde der Lobbyist bei ihrem Treffen in München von Grenell beraten, wo er unter anderem auch Kontakte für einen Besuch Edi Ramas in Washington knüpft. Dies soll im April erreicht werden./Broschüre 24 Shkurt 2025, 12:26 Thirrja e Doshit në SPAK dhe irritimi i Edi Ramës Shkruar nga Pamfleti Thirrja e Doshit në SPAK dhe irritimi i Edi Ramës Përgjimi i të fortëve tregon se Babloku po lëviz në një terren të minuar... Thirrja e Tom Doshit në SPAK, për arsyen që ai e tha vetë sapo doli nga seanca e pyetjeve, e ka qartësuar krejtësisht arësyen e kërcënimit kundrejt prokurorisë speciale nga Edi Rama, një javë më parë. Doshi tha se ishte thirrur, pasi ka takuar një person që ishte nën përgjimin e prokurorisë speciale. Ai nuk e përmendi emrin, por gjasat janë që të jetë miku i tij i vjetër Qifja(Aqif Rakipi), i cili është beu i atij territori, nga Rrogozhina deri në Peqin. Ky zhvillim, para zgjedhjeve parlamentare, i jep një sinjal të fortë politikës, posaçërisht mazhorancës, pas kërcënimit të Edi Ramës. I cili deklaroi në një lidhje direkte në rrjetet sociale, se SPAK duhet të qëndrojë larg zgjedhjeve parlamentare, për të mos vënë në përgjim zyrtarët dhe politikanët. Por në të vërtet synimi kryesor i ultimatumit të Edi Ramës, ishte pikërisht që të ndalonte përgjimet ndaj të fortëve që janë ushtria e vërtetë elektorale e tij. Dalja e Altin Dumanit, në një takim me kreun e KQZ-së, Ilirjan Celibashi, për hetimet e krimeve zgjedhore ka shqetësuar shumë mazhorancën. E cila, siç mësohet ka marrë udhëzime, siç bënin mafiozët e viteve 80, që të shmangnin bisedat e rrezikshme elektorale në telefona. Frika e Ramës, duket nuk është se do të hetohen njerëzit e partisë apo ata që quhen patronazhistë, ngaqë edhe sikur do të përgjohen nuk del ‘dhjamë nga pleshti’. Por nëse flasin njerëzit e krimit, posaçërisht ata të krimit të organizuar, atëherë kemi të bëjmë me një terren të minuar për Bablokun. I cili, duket nuk është vonuar fare nga boshllëku që kanë lënë amerikanët në terren, duke vendosur menjëherë në veprim operacionin e vitit 2016 të zgjedhjeve në Dibër. Operacion, i cili më pas rezultoi i sukseshshëm në zgjedhjet e vitit 2017. Ku nga ana tjetër ishin Sali Berisha dhe Ilir Meta, të cilët u përpoqën të minonin instalimin e reformës në Drejtësi. Ndërkaq, Edi Ramës, siç po tregojnë faktet e përditshme, duket se i ka interesuar, më shumë të shmangë një hetim të armatës së të fortëve të tij, sesa arrestimi i Lali Erit. Të cilit ja kishte suprimuar gjithë pushtetin politik, si për të dhënë një sinal që nuk do ta mbrojë. Hetimi për zgjedhjet e Rrogozhinës, i cili është në udhë e sipër, ka shumë gjasa që të pjellë edhe hetime të tjera, në bazë të materialeve që ka gjetur SPAK nga përgjimet. Këtë duket se Edi Rama e ka marrë vesh, ndaj bëri atë shantazhin direkt një javë më parë. Frika e Bablokut qëndron në faktin se akoma nuk e ka marrë vesh nëse ky “trimërim” i SPAK vjen nga sinjale përtej oqeanit, apo thjesht po e bëjnë me iniciativë të tyre. Ndaj edhe ka pak javë që ka nisur një lobim të fortë pranë administratës Trump. Siç mësohet, lobisti është këshilluar nga Grenell gjatë takimit të tyre në Mynih, ku përveç të tjerash po përgatit edhe kontaktet për një vizitë të Edi Ramës në Uashington. Për të cilën flitet se po përpiqen ta realizojnë në prill./Pamfleti
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15. Mai 2025, 11:50 Uhr Follow the Money/ SPAK verfolgt Doshis schmutziges Geld, illegale Wetten und seinen „Kumpel“ Lendi Palaj, der unter Ermittlungen steht Geschrieben von Pamphlet Mafia-Drohungen gegen den Staatsanwalt, Beschlagnahmungen vor Ort und eine Akte, die täglich wächst … Follow the Money/ SPAK folgt Doshis schmutzigem Geld, seinen Wetten SPAK und BKH haben mit Unterstützung der Staatspolizei offiziell mit der Zerschlagung einer der mächtigsten kriminellen Strukturen mit politischem Einfluss in Albanien begonnen; Tom Doshis Netzwerk. In den letzten Tagen kam es in Shkodër, Vau Dejës und Malësi e Madhe zu Kontrollen und Beschlagnahmungen mit dem Ziel, Stimmenkauf aufzuklären. Quellen von Pamfleti bestätigen, dass die wegen Wahlbetrugs gegen Doshi eingeleiteten Ermittlungen ausgeweitet wurden und nun eine ganze Reihe illegaler Finanzierungen über illegale Wettnetzwerke umfassen, die während des Wahlkampfs als Doshis „Geldautomaten“ fungieren. Einer der stärksten Schritte war die Beschlagnahmung des Telefons von Tom Doshis persönlichem Fahrer, einer Person, die angeblich als Kurier zwischen Doshi und den Menschen vor Ort im nördlichen Wahlkreis fungierte. Aus dem Mobiltelefon dürften entscheidende Beweise hervorgehen, die Doshi direkt mit der kriminellen Aktivität des Stimmenkaufs, aber auch mit den Finanzierungskanälen dieser Aktivität in Verbindung bringen. Den Informationen zufolge haben SPAK und BKH zudem eine spezielle Untersuchung des illegalen Wettnetzwerks im Zusammenhang mit Tom Doshi eingeleitet, das mutmaßlich zur Finanzierung seines Wahlkampfs genutzt wurde. Dieses Netzwerk, bekannt als „333“, „CR7“ und andere Wettplattformen, die unter dem Radar operieren, wurde von einem 26-Jährigen mit direkten Verbindungen zu Doshi geleitet; Lendi Palaj, bekannt als sein „Cherri“. Palaj ist eine zentrale Figur im Management des illegalen Wettnetzwerks. Obwohl er scheinbar sauber ist, gilt er als das „operative Gehirn“ hinter der Finanzierung von Doshis Wahlaktivitäten. In den zuvor von Pamfleti veröffentlichten Machenschaften fungierte Palaj als Sammler von Bargeldeinnahmen aus dem informellen Wettnetzwerk, das jeden Monat Millionen von Euro über Dutzende fiktiver Punkte und Drittparteien in Umlauf bringt. Aus den Betriebsdaten geht hervor, dass Zahlungen physisch in „schwarzen Säcken“ zugestellt wurden, dass am Wahltag Gelder verteilt wurden und dass es Listen mit Personen gibt, die für jede gesicherte Stimme bezahlt wurden. Dieses Geld stammte aus Unternehmen, die Doshi durch politischen Druck an sich gerissen hatte. Dazu gehörten Ausschreibungen im Gesundheitswesen, die Vergabe günstigerer Baugenehmigungen und in jüngster Zeit auch illegale Wetten, die mithilfe in die Polizei und Verwaltung eingedrungener Strukturen abgewickelt wurden. Drohungen gegen Staatsanwalt Dritan Prençi, Doshi versucht, SPAK einzuschüchtern Mittlerweile befinden sich die Ermittlungen in einem kritischen Stadium. Staatsanwalt Dritan Prençi, der von Altin Dumani mit der Bearbeitung dieser Akte beauftragt wurde, wurde Ziel von Drohungen der Mafia. Unsere Quellen sprechen von verschlüsselten Nachrichten von Doshis Leuten an Prenç, die Drohungen enthielten und Versuche beinhalteten, ihn zum Rückzug aus dem Fall zu zwingen. Genau aus diesem Grund wird erwartet, dass der Vorsitzende der SPAK, Altin Dumani, persönlich in das Ermittlungsprogramm involviert sein wird, da er diese Struktur gut kennt und eine klare Kampflinie gegen politische Banden aufgebaut hat, die den Staat erpressen. Tom Doshi spürt die Angst, die er anderen seit Jahren einflößt. Sein Netzwerk wird von allen Seiten angegriffen: Treiber, Wetten, Telefone und Dateien laufen. SPAK hat damit begonnen, einer Struktur, die im Norden und in der Mitte des Landes als „paralleler Verbrecherstaat“ fungierte, den politischen und finanziellen Sauerstoff abzuschneiden. Doshi versucht, mit Drohungen zu reagieren, doch dies ist das deutlichste Zeichen dafür, dass er an Boden verliert. Sollten die Ermittlungen bis zum Ende durchgeführt werden, wäre nicht nur Doshis Wahl- und Finanznetzwerk zerschlagen, sondern es könnte auch ein neues Kapitel für eine tatsächliche Entkriminalisierung der albanischen Politik aufgeschlagen werden. /Broschüre
15 Maj 2025, 11:50
Follow the Money/ SPAK ndjek paratë e pista të Doshit, bastet e paligjshme dhe ‘çerri’ i tij, Lendi Palaj nën hetim