A senior state official was threatened, chased and wounded with a knife because he refused to resign from the post of director of a department.
The person who asked him to leave his office was the husband of the Minister of State, who was actually the Minister of Finance earlier. The director who was attacked, blackmailed and injured went to the police, filed a report and then went to the hospital. The event happened on November 20.
The report was made on the same day and the injured person arrived at the hospital on the same day. However, no information was given to the media either by the police and even less by the prosecution or other agencies. Yesterday, the data of that event on the borders of the scandal was made public by the “Newsbomb” media, while the reaction of the minister, the wife of the aggressor, who was not investigated at all by the Prosecutor’s Office of Tirana, was immediate!
“Andri Ibrahimaj, the husband of the Minister of Entrepreneurship, Delina Ibrahimaj (former Minister of Finance), stabbed the General Director of the Credit Processing Agency (ATK) several times with a knife. It is learned that Ibrahimaj blackmailed the director of TAK, Eri Koshaj for a long time, even threatened him to resign and harassed him.
The incident took place in the “New Market” area, where it is learned that Ibrahimaji had ambushed Koshaj. An event on the scale of the scandal took place on the morning of November 20, 2023, in the middle of Tirana, but it was closed due to the involvement of the leaders of several important state institutions. Of course, the perpetrator of the stabbing is the husband of a minister.
The case was also reported to the Police of Tirana, in Police Station No. 1 by Eri Koshaj, but the institutions remained silent. With numerous threats and interventions “from above”, the General Director’s report to the Ministry of Finance has been dusted in the drawers. The Prosecutor’s Office of Tirana has received the procedural materials referred by the capital’s blues, but has decided to close the case. The decision of the prosecution body is self-evident from the influence and strong influence of the people involved in the event.
In the examination of the Institute of Forensic Medicine, conducted by the forensic doctor Harallamb Martopullo, it is proven that the body of the citizen Eri Koshaj was found to have bruises on the lower back caused by a cutting tool. Delina Ibrahimaj left the leadership of the Ministry of Finance and Economy in September 2023, to take the leadership of the Ministry of Entrepreneurship, a position she currently holds”, says the NewsBomb article.
threat
The reason for this conflict that degenerated to the use of a knife by the husband of the socialist minister, Andri Ibrahimaj, is precisely the position held by Eri Koshaj as the general director of the Credit Handling Agency. He was repeatedly asked to resign, while Andri Ibrahimaj’s wife was running the Ministry of Finance.
The Credit Handling Agency is an institution subordinate to this ministry, and citizen Eri Koshaj has refused to leave after pressure and threats. Another detail that deepens the scandal involving Andri Ibrahimaj, the husband of Minister Delina Ibrahimaj. This citizen has repeatedly asked Eri Koshaj to resign because a friend of his would be appointed director.
So, the husband of Minister Delina Ibrahimaj seems to be de facto running the Ministry of Finance, because he decided who would be appointed and who would leave office. The persecution of the citizen Eri Koshaj has increased over the months and on the morning of November 20, 2023, Andri Ibrahimaj just saw him crossing the street and left the bar where he was, going towards the Director of the Credit Handling Agency.
There he threatened and insulted him with insulting words, while he tried to take him to another private environment to “clarify”. When the director did not accept and refer to the report filed at Police Station No. 1 in Tirana, the minister’s husband took out an apparently cutting tool from his belt and shot him in the ribs and back. These attacks on the director of the Credit Treatment Agency have also been proven by the Institute of Forensic Medicine.
THE EVENT WAS HIDDEN
What happened after this event is also interesting. Andri Ibrahimaj has immediately left Albania, proven by the TIMS system. Fearing that the case would become public and he would be arrested, the husband of Minister Delina Ibrahimaj decided to flee the country at that time. The state is placed at his disposal. The event was tried to be hidden and Eri Koshaj was threatened to keep his mouth shut.
He has been dismissed from the post of General Director at the Credit Handling Agency, an institution under the Ministry of Finance that is currently headed by Ervin Mete, and no institution has taken measures for a physical attack on the scale of the scandal. Minister Delina Ibrahimaj herself has a part in this dismissal, even though she has left Finance, she has all the staff she has appointed over the years and makes the law.
As was attempted with the director of TAK, but the latter refused to leave to leave the post to the minister’s husband’s friend. There are jobs, but also professionals! But in Albania there is an unwritten rule that they don’t let you work when you are capable”!
THE MINISTER’S REACTION TO THE MAN
The Minister of State for Entrepreneurship Delina Ibrahimaj reacted after the publication in the media of the news that her husband was involved in a physical conflict with the head of an institution under the Ministry of Finance during the period that this ministry was headed by Mrs. Ibrahimaj. Although she accepts the incident, Ibrahimaj emphasizes that the conflict happened near her husband’s workplace and that the incident was investigated by the judicial authorities after the lawsuit filed by the other side.
According to her, the investigations were stopped due to lack of evidence. Ibrahimaj says that she stopped her husband from filing a report. I am sorry that 5 months after an unwanted conflict, which has gone through the path of justice and received an answer in that path, today I have to give my explanation. I have no reason to blame anyone for publishing this fact, but I have the obligation to clarify elements that make the picture of the event completely truthful.
The conflict happened near my husband’s place of work, not in the state offices, and after it was investigated by the justice bodies based on the report made by the other side, it was dismissed for lack of evidence. My only influence in this process was that I did not allow my husband to file a report, precisely because the person in question was the head of an addiction institution when I took office as Minister of Finance and I did not in any way want the family my take the initiative.
Another easily provable element is that despite the dynamics of the event and the fact that my husband has been unfairly accused of something he did not do, as confirmed by the decision of the prosecuting authorities, the accused party has continued to stay at the workplace even after my departure from the position of Minister of Finance and Economy 7 months ago. I do not believe it is necessary at this point, but I am clarifying anyway that I have not had any conflict with the predicate during the entire time of my stay in that position, as I have not had any conflict with any person in my dependency.
This fact, I believe, speaks the truth that the conflict in question had nothing to do with me or my duty. It would definitely have been better if it hadn’t happened, but sometimes unwanted developments in relationships with others choose us, we don’t choose them. But I repeat that this event has nothing to do with state institutions, with the functions of the institution that I ran and with me personally.
At the same time, I understand with regret the fact that precisely because of my duty and public commitment, an event of 5 months ago makes news today for reasons that are not within my institutional jurisdiction to comment on. My condolences to anyone who may have been disturbed by this news, but let everyone be convinced that there is no other truth than what I listed above.
“He threatened and harassed me to resign”
In a material distributed to the media, it can be seen that the police have documented a fact where it is recorded that: On November 21, 2023, the citizen Eri Koshaj appeared at police station No. 1 in the capital and filed a criminal report where he said that the husband of the Minister of State for Entrepreneurship, Delina Ibrahimajt, stabbed him in the body. The Director of the Credit Handling Agency was hit with a cutting tool by Andri Ibrahimaj, but fortunately without serious consequences. The police say that it has been referred to the Prosecutor’s Office of Tirana for the criminal offense of “assault due to duty” against Andri Ibrahimaj.
Koshaj told the police officers that he had early conflicts with Ibrahimaj because the latter asked him to resign from the position of director of the Credit Handling Agency. The clash between the two is said to have started from the time when Delina Ibrahimaj held the position of Minister of Finance and Economy. After receiving the denunciation from him, the police started chasing Andi Ibrahimaj, who was not found in the apartment. But, after a few days, it is said that he was escorted.
The sources indicate that it was the Prosecutor’s Office that asked the police to investigate Ibrahimaj in a free state, because the genesis of the incident and the beating of Košaj was done because of duty. The event took place on “Tefta Pashko” street, near “Pazari te Ri” in the capital, in the morning hours of November 21 last year. Andri Ibrahimaj had “ambushed” Koshaj and after the verbal confrontation, took out the knife and shot him in the back, as stated in the forensic report. It is learned that Eri Koshaj did not receive medical treatment in the hospital, but in the forensic report it is said that he was hit by a cutting tool.
MEDICO-LEGAL EXPERTISE
As it was learned after the release of the information that the husband of the Minister of State stabbed a director of the department because he refused to resign from his post, it was learned that the Prosecutor’s Office of Tirana had stopped the investigation against the husband of the Minister Delina Ibrahimaj, Andri Ibrahimaj. The dismissal of the case happened after the aggressor had fled from Albania, immediately after learning that the injured had gone to the police and filed a report about him. According to the numerous data that followed the scandal, it was learned that the event happened 5 months ago in Tirana on “Tefta Tashko Koço” street in the “New Market” area on November 20, 2023.
Andri Ibrahimaj was reported to the police by citizen Eri Koshaj with the claim that he was threatened and shot with a knife by the minister’s husband. The injured Eri Koshaj, at the time when the conflict occurred, held the position of General Director of the Credit Handling Agency, an institution under the Ministry of Finance. According to sources from the prosecution, the injured party claimed in his testimony that the minister’s husband took out an apparently sharp tool from his belt and shot him in the ribs and lower back.
These attacks on the director of the Credit Treatment Agency have also been proven by the Institute of Forensic Medicine. According to the report of the Institute of Forensic Medicine, it is said that it is proven that the body of the citizen Eri Koshaj was found to have bruises on the back caused by a sharp tool. The police informed that the blues of the capital have referred the materials to the prosecutor’s office at the time when the incident happened. The Prosecutor’s Office of Tirana received the procedural materials referred by the police, but then decided to close the case.
The cause of the conflict is still not officially known, while sources from the Prosecutor’s Office say that the victim claims that it happened because of the job he held and that the husband of the minister Ibrahimaj asked him to resign.
Koshaj has been dismissed from the post of General Director at the Credit Handling Agency, an institution under the Ministry of Finance that is currently headed by Ervin Mete. While Delina Ibrahimaj left the direction of the Ministry of Finance and Economy in September 2023, to take the direction of the Ministry of Entrepreneurship, a position she currently holds!
