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Shkruar nga PamfletiThe decision to repeal the 63 million fine against "TDT & Partners" revealed not only the conflict within the government, but also Dajlan Avdia's direct connection to the Rama family structures.
On May 22, 2025, the Administrative Court of Appeal finally overturned a fine of 63 million lek against the company “TDT & Partners”, after finding that the Municipality of Tirana had imposed it outside the legal deadlines. The entity in question, which built the “Book Building” tower on “Abdi Toptani” street, had added a fourth underground floor with an area of 1800 square meters without a building permit, during April 2020, precisely at the height of the pandemic and the total lockdown of the country.
The fine came late, in November 2022, from the Inspectorate of Territory Protection under the Municipality of Tirana, while the same Municipality, in February 2021 and then in October 2022, had twice rejected requests for the legalization of this space built in violation of the permit. On the other hand, during the same period, the National Council of Territory, a structure personally led by Prime Minister Edi Rama, had accepted the change to the project and approved the addition.
This is the rare case when two institutions of the same government come up with opposing decisions on the same illegal action. The municipality rejects it. The government legalizes it. The municipality imposes a fine. The court overturns it. And in the end, the construction is not only not banned, but legitimized.
If you refer only to the facts, it looks like a bureaucratic process with different interpretations. But when you connect the dates, decisions and names behind these companies, the picture is much clearer: here we are not dealing with an ordinary builder who has broken the law, but with an actor who uses power as a tool to guarantee personal interest.
The construction entity "TDT & Partners" is owned by Dajlan Avdia and Glendi Abdi, two well-known names in the construction sector, who are mentioned in a series of projects worth hundreds of millions of euros, in Tirana, Saranda, Krorez and other strategic areas. According to data collected from various sources, Dajlan Avdia is considered one of the names that operates with direct support from structures linked to the family of Prime Minister Edi Rama, in particular from his brother, Olsi Rama.
The confrontation between the Municipality of Tirana and the KKT over the unauthorized addition to the “Book Building” is not a technical issue. It is a purely political conflict, which took place in silence and which exposed for the first time the division between two axes of power within the Socialist Party: a Municipality that attempted to enforce the rule and a government that annulled it with a political signature.
If the 63 million fine was a signal of strength from the Municipality of Veliaj, the approval of the addition by the KKT was a clear counter-message: construction will continue, with or without a permit, if the right person is behind it.
But who is this right person?
Because in this story, on paper, the builder is Dajlan Avdia; a businessman who has gotten out of gambling and into resorts and towers. But in practice, every major project he is involved in follows a repeating pattern: quick permits, state silence on violations, and then closing the court case.
Such a profile is not built with business skills. It is built with political support.
Therefore, today the question is no longer: Who built without a permit?, but in whose name was the door opened and the file closed?
Dajlan Avdia may be the signatory of the project, but the only one who has the power to clash the Municipality with the Prime Minister's Office, and come out on top, is not an ordinary businessman. He is someone who has power beyond the construction office. And this power, according to every inside source who knows the real relations of construction in Tirana, does not belong to Avdia himself. It belongs to someone much closer to the Prime Minister. Much more inside than any minister. Much quieter than any MP.
It belongs to Olsi Rama. /Pamphlet
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