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Not only Shima of AKSHI/ Even Eduard Belegu, former close advisor to Dritan Prifti, "disappeared" for 16 years!
2025-08-20 22:25:59 / POLITIKË
This Wednesday, the alarmed parents of the former director general of AKSHI (National Agency for the Information Society), Daniel Shima, reported their son's disappearance to Police Station No. 1 in Tirana.
In March of this year, he was summoned to SPAK to be questioned in connection with an in-depth investigation being conducted into the hundreds of millions of euros of funds of this agency, which has carried out many expensive and red-flag tenders.
We also recall that former Deputy Prime Minister Arben Ahmetaj, who is on the run and accused by SPAK of corruption, in one of his interviews with journalist Çim Peka, stated that Daniel Shima was threatened by Prime Minister Edi Rama, for a 43 million euro tender of ANA which is being investigated. The fate of Shima is still unknown, but the disappearance without a trace of a senior state official, who possesses first-hand information about the corruption of senior officials, is not the first case.
Who was Eduard Belegu, Dritan Prifti's close advisor?
In 2000, Eduart Belegu made the leap to high levels in business, creating important connections.
He is appointed administrator of the company "Darfo Albania", the concessionaire that had won the right to reactivate the ferro-chrome activity in Elbasan as well as the extraction of chrome from the Përrenjas and Pojska mines.
In 2001, the company that was owned by the Italians of "Darfo" would expand the concession to include the Bulqiza mines. So, Eduard Belegu headed the company that owned over 95% of the chrome commercial activity in Albania.
To understand the importance of the company in question, it is enough to say that a full 5% of the world's chromium deposits at that time were estimated to be located in Albania. The management of "Darfo" gave Beleg access and recognition at high levels of politics.
To understand the importance of the company in question, it is enough to say that a full 5% of the world's chromium deposits at that time were estimated to be located in Albania. The management of "Darfo" gave Beleg access and recognition at high levels of politics.
"Eduard Belegu was a successful businessman, dealing in hydrocarbons and chrome. He was very successful at that time," journalist Ferdinand Dervishi told Inside Story.
In 2004, at the beginning of the Socialist Movement for Integration, he stood out as one of the first and most active adherents at that time from the business world. Belegu was a member of the Steering Council and a member of the SMI Presidency.
Above all, he was known as one of the main financial contributors to that political force. In the business world, he had created a profile of success and was also seen by politics as not only an economic but also a human capital.
His former friends say that Belegu was often the solution to workers' problems. On several occasions, he took his subordinates abroad for treatment.
But these remain mere memories, as since the moment he disappeared, none of Beleg's former friends prefer to talk about his fate. The only one who did was Dritan Prifti, but he is no longer alive today.
Given the profile he had created, the SMI entrusted Beleg with running for MP in the Pogradec area in 2005. He was seen as a new offer and received a considerable number of votes. However, the votes were insufficient for the mandate.
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