Indictment against Fatmir Sheholli, Mustafa warns about the activities of “Serbian, Greek and Russian spies

The Special Prosecution Office of Kosovo has recently filed an indictment against Fatmir Sheholli on two criminal charges, “espionage” and “blackmail”. According to the indictment, he is suspected of having collaborated with Serbia’s Security and Information Agency (BIA), while in another case he is alleged to have blackmailed a person for more than 13,000 euros.

Commenting on this development, commentator Xhevat Mustafa expressed concern that foreign intelligence services may have recruited Albanians. In his reaction, he also recalled a statement attributed to Hitler about spies in Albania, saying that, regardless of whether the statement is authentic, history has recorded interventions and recruitments of this kind.

Mustafa said that the authenticity of the statement attributed to Hitler during World War II cannot be asserted with complete certainty. According to the statement, while spies in other countries had to be bought at a high price, in Albania they offered themselves and did so without payment. Nevertheless, he said, the events that took place for decades before and after that statement, whether fabricated or genuine, show that its content is not entirely unfounded or a product of fantasy. He added that Hitler, as has been said and written, at least through his words and the majority of his actions, was not shown to be malicious, hysterically contemptuous or racist toward the Albanian nation.

According to the commentator, the recruitment of spies, whether paid or unpaid, in the “ALBANIAN WORLD” is not a random phenomenon, an isolated tradition or a story belonging only to the distant past.

He said that during the more than 114 years of the existence of the Albanian state, particularly over the last 35 years and especially in the more recent years, this phenomenon has developed rapidly, on a scale comparable to corruption, the spread of cannabis, tower-building, political and ordinary prostitution.

In this context, Mustafa mentioned OZN-UDB-BIA and other agencies of the Serbian Secret Service, as well as the Greek intelligence service EYP. According to him, these structures feel and operate as if they were at home in Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Albania, because quite a few Albanian politicians, people in power, officials and ordinary citizens are easily sold and bought at low prices.

As the most recent cases in Kosovo, he listed Fehim Salin and Fatmir Sheholli. Regarding Salin, Mustafa mentioned his acquaintances and photographs with Ivica Dačić, Vjosa Osmani and Albin Kurti.

At the conclusion of his reaction, the commentator called for increased vigilance regarding the possible activities of foreign intelligence services in Albanian-speaking areas. He warned that institutions must exercise greater caution in the face of any attempt at espionage or influence from abroad.

Referring to Albania, Mustafa said that perhaps SHISH, headed by Vjosa Hyseni, during these weeks of intense heat and summer holidays, has still not caught a “big espionage fish” on a hook or in a net. He expressed hope that the day will not be far off when spies from neighboring or more distant countries will be shown that in Albania they will fall into traps not like rabbits, but like “mice”.

Mustafa also recalled a figurative expression and “alarm bell” from Hajro Limaj, his friend and fellow publicist, who is also the author of several academic books. According to him, the statement has been repeated by both of them in several published articles and warns that “Serbian, Greek, Russian… spies dance around the monument to Skanderbeg on horseback!”.

He explained that this means their presence in Tirana and Krujë as well, in Pristina and other places, from Ksamil to Mitrovica.