The Democratic Party has filed a complaint regarding the granting of a casino license in the “Air Albania” stadium tower.
In a media release, Sali Berisha and Belind Këlliçi published the investigation, stating that this is an affair whose documents will be filed with the Special Prosecution Office.
According to Këlliç, the license was granted to a company that has ties to Olsi Rama, the brother of Prime Minister Edi Rama. Këlliç mentions the names of the people who, according to him, were involved in this affair and their connection to Prime Minister Rama’s brother.
According to Këlliç, the company “Space +”, licensed to operate the casino in the five-star hotel in the “Air Albania” tower, changed its ownership structure in 2025, when the shares were transferred from “ALB-STAR” to the company “GLG Investment”.
“The company that has a casino license in this hotel is Space +. According to NCC data, when this entity initially received the license, it had as a shareholder 99% the company ALB-STAR, and 1% W-CZ Holding sro, the latter a company registered in the Czech Republic.
According to legal obligations, the company applying for a license must have a minimum capital of 1,200,000,000 lekë, about 12 million euros.
The law also stipulates that the company must have experience in the field of gambling, and apparently, this was the reason why the partner W-CZ Holdings sro was included as a 1% shareholder in the casino in the Air Albania tower.
“W-CZ Holdings sro is connected to the companies that have the largest share of the gambling market, ADRIA ENTERTAIMENT and WSI shpk, directly connected to citizen Bledar Sinani. In November 2025, ALB-STAR sells the casino shares to the company GLG INVESTMENT,” said Këlliçi.
One of the accusations raised by Këlliçi is related to the revaluation of a property in Cape Rodoni. According to him, a 275 thousand square meter area purchased for around 320 thousand euros was revalued within a few months to around 26 million euros and this asset was used to increase the company’s capital, paving the way for a change of shareholder and retention of the casino license.
According to him, behind the company “GLG Investment” lies a structure with offshore companies, while he raised doubts about the identity of the beneficial owners and the source of financing.
In his statement, Këlliçi also mentioned the name of businessman Bledar Sinani, claiming that he is connected to companies involved in gambling activities and the project in Cape Rodoni. He also raised allegations of connections between Gert Haka and Olsi Rama, demanding that these relationships be investigated by SPAK.
“With dubious court decisions, millions of square meters of land are acquired, this property then changes ownership several times to lose track, and in the end it is given to GLG INVESTMENT. Above all, according to GLG INVESTMENT’s balance sheets, this amount has not been paid, but the company still has an obligation.
“To obtain the casino license, a 275,000 m2 land in Cape Rodoni, which was purchased for 320,000 euros, was revalued after 2 months with an appraisal act at 26,000,000 euros. An economic miracle unheard of anywhere in the world, which not even Taulant Balla can explain,” says Këlliçi, among other things.
Full denunciation:
Today I will briefly summarize this affair related to the license granted for the operation of the casino in the ‘Air Albania’ tower.
Of course, today, in addition to the technical part and the presentation of various criminal offenses, we will also make a presentation regarding the individuals involved and their connections with the brother of Prime Minister Edi Rama.
This material, as well as a complete network of companies connected to both the Call Center business and the construction permits, which due to time constraints will not all be made public today, will be forwarded to SPAK for further investigation.
But I’m starting with the introduction.
According to the legal framework in force, 5-star hotels in our country can obtain a license to operate a casino. One of the 5-star hotels is the one in the tower of the Air Albania national stadium.
The company that has a casino license at this hotel is Space +.
According to the Central Bank data, when this entity initially received the license, it had as its shareholder 99% the company ALB-STAR, and 1% Ł-CZ Holding sro, the latter a company registered in the Czech Republic.
According to legal obligations, the company applying for a license must have a minimum capital of 1,200,000,000 lekë, about 12 million euros.
The law also stipulates that the company must have experience in the field of gambling, and apparently, this was the reason why the partner W-CZ Holdings sro was included as a 1% shareholder in the casino in the Air Albania tower.
W-CZ Holdings sro is connected to companies that have the largest share of the gambling market, ADRIA ENTERTAIMENT and WSI shpk, directly connected to citizen Bledar Sinani.
In November 2025, ALB-STAR sells the casino shares to GLG INVESTMENT.
According to the documentation filed with the Central Bank, it appears that the initial agreement between ALB-STAR and GLG INVESTMENT was signed in August 2025 and then requests were made to the AMLF and the Competition Authority to grant approval for the change of shareholder according to legal provisions. This agreement does not specify a price for this transaction or the full agreement has not yet been filed with the Central Bank.
The current legal framework requires the AMLF to clarify who the ultimate beneficial owner is, to verify the source of income for the creation of not only capital but also other amounts that will need to be invested, as the license cannot be granted to an anonymous individual who does not have sufficient income to operate in this field.
AMLF gave the approval in violation of the legal framework, as this was an anonymous company, with zero history and activity in Albania, but with the condition that the land owned by ALB STAR as share capital be removed, and replaced with another land owned by GLG INVESTMENT shpk. Here the situation becomes even more flagrant and criminal.
According to the documentation filed with the Central Bank, the property owned by GLG is:
Property type Forest, property number 118/9, ZK. 1522, with a surface area of 275,550 m2 located in Draç (Kepi i Rodonit), Durrës, which is valued according to the valuation report drafted by the valuation expert Eng. Eno Kume attached to this decision, at the value of 2,556,732,008.00 Lekë, approximately 26 million euros.
Our experts further investigated the origin and timing of GLG’s purchase of the land, as well as its value.
In the act of expert Eno Kume, dated 19.06.2025, it results that: the property of the type Forest, with an area of 275,550 m2, was purchased by GLG INVESTMENT on 09.04.2025, for the value of 32,239,350 lek, about 320,000 euros.
The GLG entity was provided with a certificate of ownership on 29.05.2025, less than 2 months later.
The value at which the property was purchased is 117 lek per m2, or 1.2 euros/m2.
The value of 117 lek is the reference price of land in that area.
According to the ASHK documentation, which is attached to the Assessment Report, it results that a construction contract with the company Premium Finance Invest, indirectly owned by citizen Bledar Sinani, is also registered in the property file.
Our experts investigated further and it turned out that this property is part of a property restitution decision of the Durrës Court of Appeal. The total property was over 1 million m2, in Cape Rodonit, which was divided into several parts with purchase contracts at fictitious prices.
GLG Investment purchased this property from citizen Çlirim Muhamet Tahiri, who purchased it from another citizen, and all these transactions were carried out at the reference price.
Meanwhile, the appraiser himself talks about figures from 95 euros to 130 euros per m2 in that area.
So here the scheme is clear.
With dubious court decisions, millions of square meters of land are acquired, this property then changes ownership several times to lose track, and in the end it is given to GLG INVESTMENT. Above all, according to GLG INVESTMENT’s balance sheets, this amount has not been paid, but the company still has an obligation.
To obtain a casino license, a 275,000 m2 plot of land in Cape Rodoni, which was purchased for 320,000 euros, was revalued after 2 months with an appraisal report at 26,000,000 euros. An economic miracle unheard of anywhere in the world, which even Taulant Balla cannot explain.
And to be clear: a valuation report was conducted, it was used to increase the company’s capital, so that AMLF could give approval to switch from shareholder ALB-STAR to shareholder GLG Investment.
Beyond the actions of the AMLF, the Competition Authority, and the Money Laundering Directorate, which have certified this illegal scheme, another institution appears to be involved, and that is the Strategic Investment Committee, headed by Edi Rama himself.
As we noted above in this material, a business contract was registered in the property card with the company Premium Finance Invest shpk. This company has Power Invest, founded in Austria, as a shareholder. In 2021, Power Invest was absorbed by Bledar Sinan’s SIG Holding GMBH.
In July 2021, the Strategic Investment Committee, with Decision No. 6/5, dated 15/07/2021, decided to grant approval as a strategic investor for an investment in Cape Rodoni.
To date, the expropriation measure for the construction of a private villa complex has not been granted to any investor other than Bledar Sinani, and precisely in the Cape Rodoni area.
So Edi Rama, only for citizen Bledar Sinani, precisely on this land, has made a decision that if private property is not given willingly to his clients, the prime minister will take it from the owners through expropriation for “Public Interest”. This favoritism has not been done for any other domestic or foreign company to date in Albania.
So, up to this point, the scheme of how casino licenses are obtained is clear, how all the authorities turned a blind eye, and of course these companies are not only favored for casino licenses, but also with construction permits, up to and including granting strategic investor status to acquire property, not only public, but also Albanians who do not want to sign with them.
Who is behind GLG INVESTMENT?
Why was this company used when Bledar Sinani and Adria Entertainment have several other companies that could have purchased ALB-STAR shares legally and without using presta-nome?
Are these citizens really hiding behind this transaction?
For this reason, we analyzed the company GLG INVESTMENT.
GLG INVESTMENT was established in March 2024, with citizen Gerti Shkëlqim Lumani as shareholder.
In November 2024, this American citizen sells the shares to the company LAKE HORIZONT LLC, registered in the state of WYOMING (OFFSHORE), on 02.05.2024.
There is no information about the ultimate shareholders for this company as it is registered offshore.
The current legal framework stipulates that for shareholders who own over 25% of the capital in a company registered in Albania, data on the ultimate shareholder must be filed. If we search the Central Register of Companies for the company GLG INVESTMENT, it turns out that the sole shareholder who owns 100% of the entity LAKE HORIZONT LLC is the Venezuelan citizen Joselises Maradey Marquez.
We requested additional information about the company LAKE HORIZONT LLC and its shareholder. According to the official website of the state of Wyoming, it turns out that Joselises Marquez is considered the “ORGANIZER” but not the shareholder of this company.
Regarding citizen/shareholder Joselises Maradey Marquez, there is no data to be found on any economic activity or published CV in the field of gambling, or other sectors that would provide him with sufficient finances to invest in the company, according to legal criteria.
So it is clear that this company was created offshore, with fictitious owners, just to hide the true ownership.
To delve further, we gathered data on citizen Gerti Shkëlqim Lumani, who lives in Troy Michigan. His father, citizen Shkëlqim Lumani, from an official American document, is listed as a related party to citizen Gert Haka.
And here we reach the key point of this entire corrupt scheme.
Gert Haka, an Albanian citizen, who previously lived in Troy Michigan, where Olsi Rama also lived, has returned to Albania since 2013 and accompanies his close friend Olsi Rama everywhere.
Their friendship is not only known by everyone in Tirana, but is also easily proven by the fact that this citizen accompanies Rama everywhere. Gert Haka was the friend that Olsi says on the show on Top Channel that he accompanied him to Serbia in 2014, when our national team was playing, even though only 40 Albanians were allowed in that match.
Gert Haka is the man who also appears in the photos of Olsi Rama’s son when he visits Albania.
Gert Haka is the one who accompanies Olsi to Partizan’s matches.
As I told you at the beginning of the conference, the full material will be deposited with SPAK, but today I have some public questions to which SPAK will have to answer:
Is this intellectual crime so difficult to prove?
Is it a money laundering scheme to acquire land worth 320,000 euros on paper, and in just 60 days revalue it to 26 million euros, and with this land, obtain a casino license for an anonymous company right in the heart of Tirana?
How can a Venezuelan citizen register an offshore company, then come and buy shares of the GLG company in Albania, also buy land with borrowed money, and contact ALB-STAR to buy shares of the casino? All of these actions within a few months.
Has this citizen ever come to Albania?
Who informed this strange Venezuelan that citizen Gert Lumani was selling the shares?
Who is the name that can order the AMLF, the Competition Authority, the Money Laundering Authority, the Strategic Investment Committee, to serve this criminal scheme?
The answers are clear, for us and the Albanians who are robbed daily by Edi Rama, but now they must also bear the burden of Olsi Rama’s affairs, camouflaged behind his close friends.