Details emerge from SPAK file: How a cash-filled box was found at Belinda Balluku’s villa in Dhërmi

A photograph showing a red box filled with bundles of 50-euro banknotes is part of SPAK’s investigation file concerning the villa in Dhërmi allegedly belonging to former Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku.

The photograph was sent on July 17, 2021, and was found on the phone of Lavdrim Smona, the husband of the woman who cleaned Balluku’s residence in Tirana.

According to the investigation, the box of money is believed to have been photographed inside a villa in the tourist complex in Dhërmi.

SPAK analyzed hundreds of telephone communications from the 2018-2025 period which, according to prosecutors, show that the property was used by Balluku, although the documents list former footballer Igli Tare as its owner.

The file refers to communications involving the driver, subordinates, cleaning staff and the complex’s administrators.

The cleaner’s husband, along with his wife and daughter, traveled to Dhërmi from time to time to clean the villa, while their transportation was often arranged by Balluku’s personal driver.

The prosecution claims that the furnishings and investments in the property were also carried out according to the former deputy prime minister’s preferences, while mobile phone data shows her continued use of the property since 2019. The villa, measuring 103 square meters and situated on a plot of at least 300 square meters, has been seized by court order.