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Altin Dumani and Mirela Bogdani have violated the legal deadlines for appointing the head of the National Bureau of Investigation. The NBI has become a command institution, while politics and economic groups are negotiating the name of the "chosen one".
It has been more than two months since the National Bureau of Investigation has been operating without a legitimate leader. The selection process has been dragged out in violation of Law No. 95/2016 by SPAK and KLP, while reliable sources confirm the strong clash between the judiciary and the government for control of the two most sensitive investigation structures.
It has been two months since the National Bureau of Investigation (BKH) has been without a legal director, in complete violation of Law No. 95/2016 on the organization of criminal justice institutions. However, neither the head of SPAK, Altin Dumani, nor the president of the High Prosecutorial Council, Mirela Bogdani, have fulfilled their obligation to complete the process of selecting and appointing the new director of the BKH.
Instead of implementing the legal deadlines, the BKH is currently headed by one of the nominated candidates, in an act that lawyers consider a clear violation of the law and direct political interference.
According to the law, after the end of Aida Hajnaj's mandate on August 31, 2025, the new director of the BKH should have been elected no later than August 30, based on the procedure that begins with the announcement of the competition, testing and verification of the candidates' profile and assets. But the procedure has been deliberately blocked.
Since April 7, 2025, when Dumani opened the competition, the process has been delayed at every stage:
-Physical and professional tests were postponed several times;
-The truth test (Polygraph) was completed late;
-The background and asset verification, which was supposed to be completed on August 20, has not yet been completed.
Sources within SPAK confirm that all seven candidates have passed the tests, have been certified and are only awaiting the verification of their credentials, a procedure that according to the law takes no more than 30 days. However, on August 22, Altin Dumani did not send the names to the KLP, as the law requires. Instead, he and Bogdani used the justification of a 6-month postponement by the credentials evaluation commission; a reason that experts consider “fabricated” to keep the BKH under political command until the end of the year.
Behind the scenes, the process’s delay is linked to the vast political bargaining over control of two key investigative institutions: SPAK and BKH. The new head of SPAK is expected to be elected in December, and the delay in electing the head of BKH is being used to ensure that both positions are appointed at the same time, according to the balances demanded by the government and interest groups.
In this situation, the BKH has practically become a paralyzed institution. Without a legitimate leader, without authority for major decisions and under the temporary leadership of an illegally appointed candidate, this structure cannot conduct sensitive investigations.
This creates a vacuum that, according to Pamphlet sources, is being exploited by politicians to manipulate large files, preventing the initiation of proceedings on several issues affecting senior officials of the majority and financial networks linked to the government.
Essentially, this is the most serious blow to the justice reform since 2016. The structure that was created to investigate high-level corruption is now controlled through illegal commandos. And SPAK and KLP, instead of guaranteeing independence, have become part of an open political game.
If the new director of the BKH is not appointed by the end of December, Albania will enter 2026 with an investigative system without legal direction, a precedent that undermines every standard of judicial independence and completely strips SPAK of international credibility./ Pamphlet
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