In the AKSHI investigative file, Ergys Agasi and businessman Ermal Beqiri, wanted by SPAK, are accused of taking hostage businessman Gerond Meçe. The show "Në Shënjestër", through the businessman's testimony, has brought in detail how the hostage-takers asked Gerond Meçe to withdraw from the complaint procedures at the Public Procurement Commission.
"During the time they managed to get the phone password, the person in the front passenger seat told me: 'We are asking you to cooperate, not like with the password, otherwise you have a bullet in your head.'
This is also the moment where all three, except the driver, demonstrate the short weapons they had on their belts.
While the second person took the pistol out of his belt, and held it in his hand, taking out and inserting the magazine, while the first person held the pistol in his hand, threatening me: 'Are you going to cooperate or what?'
Although up until this moment the hostage-takers had been vague in their initial demands to businessman Gerond Meçe, the latter soon began to clarify what they wanted in return, to put an end to this walk with unwanted people in the fresh air.
The moment when they get straight to the point and give him a letter containing the tenders that the businessman's company had appealed against the AKSHI that had disqualified them.
Excerpts from the documentary
"My name is Gerond Meçe and my profession is an electronic engineer. I currently work in a private business. What I want to emphasize is that since 2002, my mother has opened a private company which I joined in July 2003. Where from 2006 onwards I have been the sole partner and administrator of the company called 'Advanced Business Solutions ABS'.
In 2020, for health reasons, I retired from the administration of the company and appointed two other administrators, respectively, E. Sh and Sh. K, who continue to be in office today.
What I want to explain further is that starting from February 2025, I transferred the shares of the company 'ABS' to my mother, in order to avoid problems or obstacles in various procurements. A company whose main activity is the provision of services in the field of information technology, and works with both the private and public sectors.
And since 2016, with few exceptions, we have been participants in almost every tender in the field of technology and information conducted by AKSHI (National Information Society Agency).
But while giving a brief summary of the work and activity of the company in which he and his family had capital, Gerond Meçe later confessed to the judicial police officers that not everything was so rosy in the cooperation with the National Agency for the Communication Society.
Even though he was a regular participant in tenders held by this institution, his company was constantly disqualified.
Which had raised his suspicion that something was wrong within this institution, or that other companies were being rewarded illegally by the AKSHI.
For this reason, he was addressed with numerous complaints from time to time.
Which apparently didn't go down well with his business opponents.
Who, informed, perhaps from within the AKSHI, unable to successfully convince businessman Gerond Meçe to give up these complaints, but also from participating in these tenders, put into practice a diabolical plan. To convince him through violence, by taking him hostage.
As it happened on the morning of August 12, 2025.
When people posing as police and BKH employees took him in their car with a gun and held him hostage for several hours in one of the mountainous areas of Elbasan.
In relation to these tenders or procedures, recently and specifically from January 2025 to July of this year, the company 'ABS' has appealed nearly 20 procurement procedures in which it participated, mainly in the AKSHI but also in other institutions such as the KLGJ, UKT, etc.
Specifically, on August 12, 2025, I was at home until around 10:30 in the morning.
Then, due to a phone conversation, I left the apartment, and I had with me my work bag with my laptop inside, as well as a handbag, in which I had two pairs of car keys, one for the 'Range' vehicle and the other for the 'Hyundai' vehicle, my office and house keys, a credit card holder, and my personal mobile phone.
But as he was getting ready for a normal workday upon leaving his apartment, Gerond Meçe says that his daily life from that moment on took a completely different course.
A trend that would shock him and his family quite a bit.
So much so that after this ugly event he even considered leaving Albania, to secure his life and that of his family.
As he told the investigative group that as soon as he left the apartment, he was stopped by several people wearing uniforms bearing the insignia of the State Police and the National Bureau of Investigation.
Or that they were introduced to him, who after putting him in their car, handcuffed him and gave him no opportunity to communicate, even with his family.
After the car headed towards Elbasan, the route continued to the old road, to the village of Krrabë.
When we stopped, the time in the car was around 11:20, and the large square where we had stopped was like a 'balcony' near the village of Gracen, overlooking the village of Papër, this because from this position I could see the trail of the new road that was being opened, the 'Elbasan-Durrës' one.
Next to where we stopped was an abandoned white brick building, one story, with no windows. During which time the people in the car asked me to get out and give them my phone password, which I initially refused to give them, but at this moment the driver came and slapped me.
During this time they took the phone and placed it on my finger since my hands were tied behind my back. Meanwhile, the third person removed the handcuffs from behind and placed them in front of me.
"Where they managed to unlock the phone with my fingerprint, and I thought at that moment they switched it directly to airplane mode," Meçe told the investigator.
Gerond Meçe explained that the reason he initially refused to give his phone password was that he had hope that he could still be saved.
This is because the phone had not stopped ringing all the way.
But while he was in the hands of his captors, he says they began threatening his life.
By first bringing out the weapons as a sign of pressure.
Asking him to cooperate.
While in reality he still didn't know what kind of collaboration the people who had brought him here were talking about.
"During the time they managed to get the phone password, the person in the front passenger seat told me: 'We are asking you to cooperate, not like with the password, otherwise you have a bullet in your head.'
This is also the moment where all three, except the driver, demonstrate the short weapons they had on their belts.
While the second person took the pistol out of his belt, and held it in his hand, taking out and inserting the magazine, while the first person held the pistol in his hand, threatening me: 'Are you going to cooperate or what?'
Although up until this moment the hostage-takers had been vague in their initial demands to businessman Gerond Meçe, the latter soon began to clarify what they wanted in return, to put an end to this walk with unwanted people in the fresh air.
The moment when they get straight to the point and give him a letter containing the tenders that the businessman's company had appealed against the AKSHI that had disqualified them.
"When I told the first person what to cooperate with, the person wearing the vest with the inscription BKH, which he had already taken off, went to the car and got out of there with a white envelope in his hand.
Where after opening this envelope he pulled out an Excel spreadsheet and said to me: 'Do you recognize this letter'?
Where I understood from the name that this table lists the tenders that my company has appealed and in one column is the status, as well as the status of the tender at the PPC (Public Procurement Commission).
"Also, at this moment, I also noted, among other things, a procedure that was written by the Administrative Court," said Meçe.
It was now clear to businessman Gerond Meçe that the people who had taken him hostage and brought him here, who did not at all look like excursionists, were ordered and directed in their actions by his business opponents.
Who had given them clear instructions on what they would ask their hostage to give up.
"They asked me: 'Did I understand?'
At first I said 'No', but I perceived that someone had organized this event because of my complaints.
Which was seven to nine procedures.
Meanwhile, the first person tells me: 'These are tenders that you have appealed and you should withdraw. We have nothing to do with your money, we know that you have money, you enjoy it, but you have nothing to do with these procedures and you will withdraw from these procedures.'
I told them: 'Guys, this job can't be done like this, because even if it was done, it would ruin your job more than mine.'
Meanwhile, I tried to convince them that the withdrawal is not happening at this moment by telling them that I am no longer an administrator, which they told me they knew.
"But I told them that if they were going to release me, I would do it in the coming days," the well-known businessman is reported to have told the police.
But while he was thinking to himself that he was managing to convince the boys to be good and release him, Gerond Meçe believes that in the place where they had stopped and were keeping him handcuffed to the seat, there was another person invisible to him.
This was based on the conversations that took place there, while two of the people in the car, those wearing the police logo, continued to stand guard over him.
While the third person who was wearing a mask took it off.
But threatening him that if he spoke, one day he would have a bad job.
Because they would be his shadow wherever he went.
While it seemed to me that the situation was going in my favor, the first person, the one who previously wore the BKH t-shirt, told me to withdraw from the trial in the Administrative Court as well.
