According to the SPAK investigation file into the case involving former SHISH director Vlora Hyseni and Ergys Agasi, on July 20, 2026, a vehicle with the license plate GG 444 AA, owned by Ergys Agasi, was seized at the “Equos Resort” premises in Tirana. According to the report dated July 22, 2026, the vehicle contained, among other things, nine large-format paper printouts containing diagrams with data similar to that produced by the State Intelligence Service. During the court hearing to verify the conditions of the security measure, Ergys Agasi himself admitted that the vehicle was his and that he had left the materials there so that the Special Prosecutor’s Office authorities would find them.
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The situation appears even more unusual because, at the same time, Vlora Hyseni continued trying to get Ergys Agasi out of trouble. Meanwhile, Agasi had apparently lost trust and decided to betray everyone—or perhaps he was seeking revenge for being abandoned.
As a person under investigation, Vlora Hyseni admitted that she had maintained continuous communications with Ergys Agasi while he was on the run. She defended herself by saying that she spoke with him because he had offered her cooperation, but she did not explain what kind of cooperation he had offered or whom she had informed about this contact.
However, she denied having had any in-person meetings with Ergys Agasi and rejected the possibility that he had obtained information from the State Intelligence Service. The file states that “Vlora Hyseni denied the in-person meetings, or the fact that Agasi had obtained information from the State Intelligence Service,” while she pledged to provide an official written response, in a classified document, regarding the origin of the seized diagrams.
But according to SPAK, the story the former SHISH chief tried to present does not stand up. According to the prosecution, it was not Hyseni who was trying to use Agasi as a collaborator to obtain valuable information; rather, it was Agasi who was using Hyseni, obtaining information from her and dictating what she should do next.
According to SPAK, Hyseni and Agasi communicated so frequently and continuously that, within a single day, they exchanged repeated phone calls, photos and videos. The content of these materials remains unknown, while the possibility that Agasi also used unauthorized wiretaps involving Vlora Hyseni or other people has not been ruled out.
The file states that communication between the head of SHISH and the person under investigation, Ergys Agasi, who at the time was wanted by the authorities, was periodic, daily and prolonged, involving not only ordinary voice calls but also video calls and exchanges of photos and videos. According to SPAK, this undermines the alibi of the alleged collaborator referred to in Hyseni’s statement.
In total, between June 28, 2026, and August 26, 2026—the date of Ergys Agasi’s arrest—voice and video calls were recorded via the “Signal” application: 70 incoming calls from Vlora to Ergys, 17 outgoing calls from Ergys to Vlora, 28 missed calls, 25 unanswered calls in which Ergys did not answer Vlora, as well as rejected calls. Meanwhile, the BIOME function on Ergys Agasi’s phone stored a total of 508 forms of communication—including calls, voice messages, video calls, messages and chat messages—between the two individuals during the aforementioned period.
Moreover, the head of SHISH had not informed any authority, either parallel to or within the institution, about the alleged collaborator.
The unusual aspect of this story, worthy of films about agents and criminal groups, is that almost everyone was aware of the open relationship between Vlora Hyseni and Ergys Agasi, both before he was declared wanted by the police and while he was on the run. It is said that there is also video footage of the two. Meanwhile, Durrës businessman Embro Sulejmani and Fatjon Kalluçi, head of the police scientific laboratory, have also been detained in connection with the case.
Sulejmani is said to have deleted the security camera footage at the government residence in Durrës, which Ergys Agasi also frequented. The action is believed to have been carried out to erase traces of Agasi’s meetings at the premises. Meanwhile, Fatjon Kalluçi, head of the scientific laboratory at the State Police, was arrested as part of the investigation into the AKSHI case, in which Ergys Agasi is the main person under investigation. Kalluçi was responsible for administering evidence and documents related to various crimes at the Scientific Police.
Nevertheless, the biggest question remains how Vlora Hyseni rose to the top of the State Intelligence Service and who suggested her name to Prime Minister Edi Rama as head of Albanian intelligence.
This unusual story, which could happen only in a country like Albania, begins with the fact that a deputy director of another country’s intelligence service, who had been dismissed from the secret service for unknown reasons, one day became head of the intelligence service of a neighboring state. Regardless of whether someone might ask what the problem is, the central issue remains the question mark surrounding Vlora Hyseni’s profile.
In the end, Hyseni was also abandoned by the person who brought her to Albania and elevated her to the head of SHISH, Prime Minister Rama, who declared that responsibility was individual and that she owed Albania a moral debt. Rama said that “the former head of the State Intelligence Service has opened a very difficult account with justice, in addition to having incurred a major moral debt to Albania, where she received unreserved trust.”
But what moral debt does Vlora Hyseni owe Albania, and why does Edi Rama not owe such a debt when he was the one who appointed her to lead SHISH?
Vlora Hyseni came to Albania in 2021 as an unknown figure to the public. To understand the reasons, it is enough to look at the way she left Kosovo’s Intelligence Agency and how quickly she was accepted and embraced by Rama.
Hyseni was dismissed by Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti immediately after he took office as head of government for the second time, on March 22, 2021. She had spent only four months at the head of the Kosovo Intelligence Agency, where she had been appointed in December 2020 by Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti and President Vjosa Osmani. Previously, Hyseni had served as deputy director of the agency, appointed to the post by Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj and President Hashim Thaçi, and she retained the position even after leaving the director’s office. Earlier still, she had held the position of Director of Foreign Relations at the KIA, one of the most important posts there.
The dismissal decision, dated June 30, 2021, stated that Ms. Vlora Hyseni was dismissed from the position of deputy director of the Kosovo Intelligence Agency. She was required to hand over all equipment and materials entrusted to her and to safeguard all information obtained during her time in office, regardless of how it had been accessed or possessed. The decision emphasized that disclosing or failing to safeguard classified information constituted a criminal offense under Criminal Code No. 06/074 of the Republic of Kosovo, Law No. 03/L-178 on the Classification of Information and Security Clearances, as well as other applicable legislation on classified information.
After her departure from Kurti’s government, Hyseni did not remain without work for long. She appeared in Tirana alongside Prime Minister Rama just four months after leaving the Kosovo Intelligence Agency.
Rama appointed Hyseni as his security adviser. Later, in 2023, at the height of the McGonigal scandal, he elevated her to head SHISH, perhaps also as a lifeboat for himself, using the credentials she possessed as a certified agent and which had demonstrated her credibility among international partners.
In his proposal for her appointment, Rama declared: “Today I submitted to the President of the Republic my proposal to appoint Ms. VLORA HYSENI as director of the State Intelligence Service, with full confidence that her outstanding training, experience acquired over the years and the respect she enjoys within the international intelligence community constitute a complete guarantee for the further reform of the Albanian intelligence service.”
The opposition rejected the appointment at the time as well, describing her as unsuitable and compromised because of her work at the Kosovo Intelligence Agency. Gazment Bardhi said that “Hyseni was dismissed from the intelligence services of the Republic of Kosovo amid suspicions of disclosing or failing to safeguard classified information,” adding that these reports were concerning and raised doubts about her integrity.
It is still unknown who brought Vlora Hyseni to Albania, although it is known who welcomed her. According to rumors, she met Ergys Agasi precisely in the corridors of the Prime Minister’s Office, at a time when he served as the prime minister’s eminence grise. According to these accounts, the relationship continued until both were compromised.
