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If there is concrete proof of how illegal construction, financial crime and political support together create an unpunished corporation in Albania, it is the “Drilonit Forests” project on the shores of Lake Pogradec. At the head of the scheme is the builder with two criminal files in SPAK, Fatmir Bektashi, a silent partner of the Berisha family, supported by Edi Rama...
In the tourist area of Drilon, where the lake has always been the natural limit of any construction intervention, Fatmir Bektashi has started the construction of a complex of multi-storey buildings, presenting it as an approved project with the deceptively beautiful name “Driloni Forests”.
A giant banner with a 3D view and a call for the purchase of apartments has been placed on the flattened land of the natural park. And the sales have begun: the deposits are being collected, there is no permit yet.
According to an official statement from the National Territorial Council, the company "Kontakt sh.pk", which manages the project, has not received a construction permit. The application was filed on February 8, 2025, but the procedure has not been completed. In direct translation: the construction is illegal.
However, the developer has made it a fait accompli. He has leveled a public green space and is selling apartments that do not exist either on documents or in reality.
But what is most shocking is the total silence of state institutions. The Municipality of Pogradec, the Territorial Inspectorate, the State Police and the Prosecutor's Office, and even SPAK itself, have not moved a single stone. There is neither interruption of work, nor criminal charges, nor administrative investigation. No one intervenes, as if the construction is in another galaxy.
Meanwhile, residents who repair a roof or add a window without permission are punished with fines and prison. But the builder who sells buildings in the air, in a protected area, is not bothered by anyone.
Fatmir Bektashi is not an isolated case. He is known for other similar projects, built without permits and beyond approved parameters, on the outskirts of Tirana. But in Drilon, he has received an additional gift from the government: a public promenade, built in front of his buildings without permits.
The project "Urban transformation of the Tushemisht promenade and the Tushemisht-Dogana-Shën Naum road segment" has received funding of 2.7 million euros from the Albanian Development Fund. And among the new road access nodes, a direct connection to the unauthorized complex of "Driloni Forests" has been added.
This is no longer just a permit. It is direct financial favoritism by the government for an illegal project. Citizens' taxes are paving the way for construction that has no permit and is destroying a protected area.
Edi Rama, who once attacked illegal construction with harsh public language, is now the silent guarantor and real sponsor of projects like Bektashi's. Not only does he not stop the builder, but he indirectly supports him through state interventions that increase the value of his ghostly complex.
This is the Albania of illegal construction with government support. This is the government that kneels for one more tower, for a political partner, for an oligarch who increases his wealth by destroying public property.
For every square meter that is sold in the air, a meter of natural park is disappearing. For every euro that is given as a deposit, a part of the law is being undone. And for every permit that does not exist, a system is being built where power, construction crime and institutional abuse have become one./ Pamphlet
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