Niko Peleshi
Socialist Party (PS)
Legal status
Under investigation
under-investigation
What this means: Prosecutors are reported to be investigating. An investigation is not a charge and not a finding of guilt.
Conflicting records. The research disagrees; every version is shown and none has been chosen as correct.
- Legal status
- under-investigationFrom the research record · cites:
- Ministri i Mbrojtjes Niko Peleshi paraqitet në SPAK (opens in a new tab)Shqiptarja.com · 5 Mar 2024 · journalism · SQ
- Niko Peleshi (Wikipedia; search result) (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia · 2026 · wiki · EN
- not-chargedFrom the research record · cites:
- Investigative secret or political blockage: the parliament denies the SPAK dossier for the Balluku case (opens in a new tab)citizens.al · 17 Dec 2025 · journalism · EN
- under-investigationFrom the research record · cites:
- Source label
- UNDER_INVESTIGATIONFrom the research record · cites:
- Ministri i Mbrojtjes Niko Peleshi paraqitet në SPAK (opens in a new tab)Shqiptarja.com · 5 Mar 2024 · journalism · SQ
- Niko Peleshi (Wikipedia; search result) (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia · 2026 · wiki · EN
- OFFICIALLY_REPORTEDFrom the research record · cites:
- Investigative secret or political blockage: the parliament denies the SPAK dossier for the Balluku case (opens in a new tab)citizens.al · 17 Dec 2025 · journalism · EN
- UNDER_INVESTIGATIONFrom the research record · cites:
Profile
Full record inand(id niko-peleshi); this entry covers the cabinet angle only.
Response from Niko Peleshi
Speaking outside SPAK, he said only that he was there 'for official business' (Shqiptarja, 5 Mar 2024).
Other accounts in the research (3 fields worded differently)
This record appears in more than one research record. The main text above comes from one; the other versions are kept here unedited.
- Biography
- Full record inand(id niko-peleshi); this entry covers the cabinet angle only.From the research record
- Speaker of the Assembly during the Balluku immunity process. Reported in December 2025 as withholding the SPAK file on Belinda Balluku from the Mandates Council, citing 'investigative secret'. No statement by him on the 12 March 2026 vote was found in this run.From the research record
- Niko Peleshi is the Speaker of the Assembly in 2025-2026 coverage. In December 2025 the Assembly declined to give the Mandates Council the full SPAK file on Belinda Balluku, citing investigative secrecy. Critics, including lawyer Dorian Matlija, disputed that justification. No charge against Peleshi was found.From the research record
- Legal status detail
- Shqiptarja (5 Mar 2024): Peleshi, then Defence Minister, spent over two hours at SPAK's special prosecution office, questioned in the incinerator-affair investigations. Report TV sources linked the questions to his relationship with incinerator boss Klodian Zoto and a 2013 water-meter tender in Korçë, when he was mayor. The article reports a SPAK claim that Arben Ahmetaj intervened in that tender. The article does not say whether he was a suspect or a witness; no charge or ILDKPKI finding found.From the research record
- No charges reported in sources reviewed.From the research record
- No charge or investigation against Peleshi found in sources reviewed.From the research record
- Response
- Speaking outside SPAK, he said only that he was there 'for official business' (Shqiptarja, 5 Mar 2024).From the research record
- Not found in sources reviewed.From the research record
- On 17 Dec 2025 (Citizens.al, fetched) the article attributes to him only the phrase 'investigative secret' as the reason for withholding the file. A reply to the claim that he is hiding the file was found in a search summary of an Albanian report (undated, not fetched): he said the file had not been locked but its contents must stay confidential.From the research record
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From 2021
Tirana Outer Ring Road (Lot 4) procurement
SPAK's second tender allegation in the November 2025 indictment concerns Lot 4 of the Tirana Outer Ring Road, procured in 2021 by ARRSH. SPAK alleges Balluku guided the procedure and acted with…
Status: Under investigation. Part of the indictment reported in Nov 2025. Further accusations reported 7 Aug 2026.
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Connections
Open the map →Withheld SPAK file as investigative secret
Evidence: Citizens.al 17 Dec 2025 reports the Assembly's refusal to give the Mandates Council the file (see ev-2025-12-17-speaker-withholds-file in.
What they said vs. what the documents show
What was said · 17 Dec 2025
Speaker withheld the SPAK materials on Balluku from the Mandates Council, describing them as 'investigative secret' (as reported by citizens.al; the article gives no further direct quote).
Speaker: Niko Peleshi
Investigative secret or political blockage (opens in a new tab)citizens.al · 17 Dec 2025 · journalism · EN
What the documents show
Lawyer Dorian Matlija (quoted in the same article) said the material is passed to the relevant committee, which prepares the report, and that the Mandates Council cannot evaluate it without it. No speaker statement on the 12 March 2026 vote was found.
- Investigative secret or political blockage (opens in a new tab)citizens.al · 17 Dec 2025 · journalism · EN
Timeline
SPAK
Defence Minister Niko Peleshi questioned by SPAK in the incinerator investigations
Over two hours at SPAK; status (suspect or witness) not stated. He said he was there for official business.
Linked: Niko Peleshi
Parliament
Speaker withholds SPAK Balluku file from Mandates Council
Speaker Niko Peleshi cited 'investigative secret'; ResPublica's Dorian Matlija disputed this. Constitutional Court had reinstated Balluku on 12 Dec 2025 (as reported).
Linked: Tirana Outer Ring Road (Lot 4) procurement · Niko Peleshi · Belinda Balluku
Sources for this record
Every source the research cites for this record, grouped by its source label. 3 sources.
Source label: Officially reportedOfficially reported · 1 source
- Publisher
- Citizens.al
- Date
- 17 Dec 2025
Source label: Under investigationUnder investigation · 2 sources
- Publisher
- Shqiptarja.com
- Date
- 5 Mar 2024
- Publisher
- Wikipedia
- Date
- 2026