The new recruits at the Secret Service have spurred debates recently in
Albanian media outlets and not only. A few weeks ago there were
controversies about some new recruits who arrived after Visho Ajazi was
appointed Director of the Secret Service.
Ajazi has brought radical changes by replacing almost the entire leadership with people who return after 15 years.
Top Channel has been able to find out about some of Ajazi’s reform, referring to sources from within the institution. A source from the Secret Service declared that many of the new recruits don’t have the respective education, and some used to be in leading positions in the period 1992-1997, when the Secret Service was called “SHIK” and was led by the late Bashkim Gazidede. Others are suspected of being involved in illegal traffics.
Three or four of the new main leaders don’t have even a security assessment for working at the Secret Service, which goes against the law for the status. Others don’t have followed the basic courses, a very necessary condition.
The main suspects fall on the recruitment of a man who holds the highest position in an information-operational line. 15 years ago, while working for the Secret Services, he was caught transporting guns illegally to Kosovo and was released from duty.
The Director of the Analyze Department at the Secret Service doesn’t have the security condition assessment. The man who controls the surveillance, the Director of the Department of Support, has not completed the basic course.
The Director of the Anti-Narcotics is in the same conditions. Not only he doesn’t have the security condition, but not even the basic course.
Other Directors recruited in Visho Ajazi’s time is the Director of the Personnel Security Branch, the man who verifies every employee who comes into service; the Director of Security; some branch leaders, main inspectors in Kukes, Fier, Durres, the Directory of Cooperation with Partners, the Directory of Observation and others.
There are suspicions for the recruiting of some national guard members, former bodybuards of Visho Ajazi, who have received important duties without having the necessary education.
The Secret Service has 14 basic directories, from which nine are led by officers from Mirdita, Kukes and Tropoja, all appointed in 2013, a few months after Ajazi took the institution.
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