Former State Police director Ilir Proda: SPAK search of his home in the AKSHI-linked probe (Sept 2026)

• Proda was dismissed as State Police Director General in March 2026 (Albanian Daily News). BalkanWeb links the dismissal to police performance during the 28 Feb 2026 protest; this link is reported, not confirmed in an official document.
• SPAK ordered controls in his residence; reported in Albanian Daily News and BalkanWeb on 22 Sep 2026 (publication dates).
• Public allegations, as relayed by journalist Klodiana Lala, link Proda's name to businessman Ergys Agasi (see case-akshi-procurement).
• Reporting says the authorities had not disclosed the allegations or the search findings.

Four lists kept apart on purpose: what is established, what is only alleged, what is still open, and what those concerned said.

Possible explanations that connect this record with other findings. They are not findings; each lists the evidence for and against.

• Source label: Unverified

  One procurement network reached into the intelligence service and the police leadership

  The AKSHI file began as rigged IT tenders. By September 2026 SPAK's action in the same investigation had reached the head of the intelligence service SHISH (suspended and placed under house arrest), the home of a former State Police director (searched) and the head of the police forensic laboratory (arrested). If the charges hold, the people who should have detected the network were part of protecting it. This would make AKSHI the clearest case of state capture in the archive.

  Evidence for

  • A court suspended SHISH director Vlora Hyseni and placed her under house arrest on 22 September 2026; SPAK suspects her of helping Ergys Agasi and disclosing classified information (Reuters).
  • SPAK ordered a search of the home of former State Police director Ilir Proda and arrested the head of the police forensic laboratory in the same operation (September 2026).
  • SPAK seized assets worth over 40 million euro from former AKSHI director Mirlinda Karçanaj, Agasi and Ermal Beqiri (decision of 20 April 2026).
  • A businessman testified that he was held and pressured to withdraw tender appeals and that a Tirana deputy police director warned him (reported by Balkanweb).

  Evidence against

  • Nobody in this chain has been convicted; the SHISH and police steps are security measures, not verdicts.
  • Proda has not been charged; a search is not an accusation.
  • Rama says he had already removed Hyseni, and the government presents the case as individual wrongdoing, not a network.
• Source label: Unverified

  The AKSHI tender network reached into the State Police and intelligence leadership

  In September 2026 the same SPAK operation that targeted Ergys Agasi (arrested 26 Aug 2026) searched the home of the former State Police director, arrested the head or senior official of the police scientific laboratory, and placed the former SHISH director under house arrest for aiding Agasi and disclosing classified information. If the allegations hold, a tender-rigging network would have used access to police and intelligence information, which would connect the AKSHI case to the existing police-protection pattern in the dataset.

  Evidence for

  • Court-ordered house arrest and suspension for Vlora Hyseni, with charges of aiding Agasi and disclosing classified information (Albanian Daily News, 22 Sep 2026).
  • Searches at homes and offices of current and former officials, including Ilir Proda (BalkanWeb, Albanian Daily News, 22 Sep 2026).
  • Journalist Klodiana Lala's reported allegation of strong ties between Proda and Agasi (BalkanWeb).
  • The AKSHI case and Agasi's arrest are already in the dataset (case-akshi-procurement, ev-2026-08-26-agasi-arrest).

  Evidence against

  • No charges against Proda and no specific allegations against Kalluci were published in the reporting retrieved.
  • The Proda links come second-hand through a journalist's statement; no SPAK document was found.
  • The Kalluci post is described differently by two outlets (head vs senior official).
  • Hyseni's account of the charges comes from SPAK's statement as reported; she has not responded in the sources retrieved, and the surrender-vs-arrest details conflict.
• Source label: Unverified

  Recurring pattern: former senior police officers sell access to police databases to drug groups

  Erjon Dani is accused of giving TIMS police-database information to a trafficker. Earlier SPAK cases, including Erzen Brecani and Dedan Gjoni (Sky ECC, existing in the dataset), involve former police officials named in encrypted-chat evidence. If the allegations hold, the common element is insider access to police systems. This would link the drug-trafficking cases to the Sky ECC chain and to the police leadership changes (Proda dismissal) in the dataset.

  Evidence for

  • SPAK accuses Dani of abuse of duty for giving TIMS database information to a trafficker (Shqiptarja, 11 Jul 2025).
  • Brecani and Gjoni are linked to Sky ECC chats in existing dataset case-erzen-brecani-sky-ecc-2023.
  • Police-data misuse is a recurring allegation across the SPAK police cases listed in the dataset.

  Evidence against

  • Each case is a set of allegations; no conviction for TIMS misuse was found in the sources retrieved.
  • The Dani operation is described in SPAK's statement without explicit reference to Sky ECC evidence; the link is inferred.
  • The Sky ECC evidence is contested before the Constitutional Court (reported), so cross-case links depend on that outcome.
  • No evidence links Proda to the drug network; his link is to the AKSHI case.