The Vetting Show, News24
Agim Binaj had not only come for himself, but also for his son, currently the Director General of Taxes. The meeting would take on harsh tones as lawyer Doku would also mention the current violations during the time when Taxes was being run by his son Ilir Binaj.
Binaj even claims with his own mouth that he will arrest the journalists personally, even though the entire show only lists facts and violations of the law.
Conversation captured from hidden camera 3, meeting between the father of the tax chief Binaj, Agim Binaj, and lawyer Muharrem Doku.
"AGIM BINAJ: Before the son came from America, the prime minister called him, he was on business in America and was taking... As you said here...
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: I didn't say that...
AGIM BINAJ: Okay, okay. It says "Vettingu", Vettingu. The journalist will be held responsible because I won't leave it at that.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Don't tell me the responsibility, do whatever you want because it's your right.
AGIM BINAJ: Listen to me. The prime minister called him, he got it from America, my son didn't come to steal... Dale, you got it from what you said here (referring to the newspaper).
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Did I say that?
AGIM BINAJ: He said "Vettingu", "Vettingu", how is it possible that he received 50 thousand euros there and here he receives a salary of 2 thousand euros.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Sir!
AGIM BINAJ: Well, okay, okay, "Vettingu" says, and you also said about "Vettingu" lawyer Doku.
AGIM BINAJ: Now one thing needs to be clarified...
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Explain!
AGIM BINAJ: Wait! No no no, I'm not explaining to anyone, I'm explaining to you.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: What's my job?
AGIM BINAJ: Please forgive me!
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: What business do I have? If I have slandered, if I have mentioned your name, take me to court, if I have slandered.
AGIM BINAJ: But listen to me until the end, so that you too may be freed from evil, and I too may be freed, so that I may not prejudice you.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: I am super clear.
AGIM BINAJ: Please, listen to what he says here (refers to the newspaper).
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Let him say something..
AGIM BINAJ: But listen to me, now man, why are you so... Listen man, I'm not here to take responsibility. I want to explain the problem well. Once again, people know me well, and I know that this article has increased my values.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Oh sir!
AGIM BINAJ: No, no, it has increased my values!
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Can I tell you one more thing?
AGIM BINAJ: Do you know this?!
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: You came, you only met me.
AGIM BINAJ: I'll catch them one by one, why do you think you think I won't catch the others too? But I will catch them, I have the opportunity, I have the courage.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: There is an answer, when you are burned by the fly under "this way".
AGIM BINAJ: Me? You're wrong.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Let me get them.
AGIM BINAJ: This is a misconception.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: What business do you have with meeting a lawyer?
AGIM BINAJ: I ask you because you spoke for me.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: No, I wasn't talking about you.
AGIM BINAJ: Yes, you were talking about me.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: No, I didn't mention your name.
AGIM BINAJ: You mentioned the watch, I'm telling you!
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: I didn't mention your name, Sir.
AGIM BINAJ: Okay, okay.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU": Take me to court, that's it. We'll get the video of the show, put it out there, and I'll pay the damages then. That's it."
The conversation would bring to light the facts that the show had exposed about the company "TPA Albania" shpk, where Agim Binaj owns 2% of the shares, but according to some laws, his son was categorically prohibited from taking on this task.
"Conversation captured from hidden camera 4, meeting between the father of the tax chief Binaj, Agim Binaj, and lawyer Muharrem Doku."
"AGIM BINAJ: I'm not hiding anything from you, I'm declaring it to you like a priest. I tell him, boy. You have no status, you're a politician, I can't catch you. I print it out, I give it to him, it's over, that's it.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Regardless of this, the senior manager must declare the conflict of interest.
AGIM BINAJ: But how do you know about the conflict of interest?
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: It's the law!
AGIM BINAJ: Hey, sir, you're not with them.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: That's irrelevant.
AGIM BINAJ: He just stated that my father has an accounting office, with income of up to 8 million lek. Please, I've seen this.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Even the senior manager has, that is, declares a conflict of interest. I have caught the law.
AGIM BINAJ: It's up to 10 million, sir.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Let's see now.
AGIM BINAJ: Up to 10 million, man, look at it. Up to 10 million, I agree with you. This job is over. I solved it.
If it was over 10 million, then I had a conflict of interest, I was forced to sell the office and move somewhere else. That's gone.
You know, this is verified because I have verified everything before you. Okay, this chapter is closed.
Now the problem arises, let's come to the first one, to this company that the boy was a shareholder of and that sold the shares to his colleague Laura, I have 2% here (referring to the company TPA Albania), to this Austrian. Sir, I do not have a controlling stake, I have 2% as a shareholder and I do not exercise auditing functions, I am not even an administrator.
AGIM BINAJ: To find out, read the law on conflict of interest.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: There you go, I read it.
AGIM BINAJ: Open the point to the end, which means up to 10 million lek.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Ore is a title, which names people.
AGIM BINAJ: Yes, let it be! It is a title and it will be called a conflict of interest when I achieve a turnover or an income of over 10 million lek. It's over because I clarified this very point that otherwise I would have closed it since the boy was appointed. But this point excludes me and I clarified this. Open the law up to 10 million lek is called a conflict of interest. Dear, let you be a deputy, let you be a minister.
The Minister of Finance has the same thing with his father.
Mr. Binaj himself admits that when the company has an annual turnover of over 10 million lekë it is not allowed, but he refers to the company “ASC CPAs” while ignoring the fact that the other company, “TPA Albania” shpk has an annual turnover of over 10 million lekë. Despite this violation, the amended Tax Procedures Law prohibits the Chief Tax Officer Binaj from exercising his duties while his family members have auditing companies. The arguments of the lawyer Doku would also bring irritation to Professor Binaj since the former Director of Taxes would reveal violations related to the time that the Chief Tax Officer Binaj was in office.
"Conversation captured from hidden camera 5, meeting between the father of the tax chief Binaj, Mr. Agim Binaj, and lawyer Muharrem Doku."
"AV. MUHARREM DOKU: What did your son name in Tirana today?
AGIM BINAJ: My son?
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: What did your son appoint today in Tirana (referring to the Director of Taxes for Tirana)
AGIM BINAJ: It does not matter.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: I didn't matter, it mattered to him.
AGIM BINAJ: No, you'll hear me out because I don't deal with tax appointments.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: No, you're saying he committed a violation for these appointments!
AGIM BINAJ: You'll break your head, I'm telling you.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Me?
AGIM BINAJ: Here I am saying it.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Listen to me.
AGIM BINAJ: You're going to break your head!
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Oh sir!
AGIM BINAJ: If you accuse honest people, remember, you will break your head.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Whose head are you going to break?
AGIM BINAJ: You talked about my son's head, pik pik pik.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Why did you come?
AGIM BINAJ: You shouldn't be prejudiced.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Absolutely.
AGIM BINAJ: You don't know my son at all (he broke the glass on the bar floor).
AGIM BINAJ: Break it, you're okay now.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Oh sir!
AGIM BINAJ: You don't know him, don't judge! The newspaper wrote...
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: I didn't write it, the newspaper wrote it.
AGIM BINAJ: You didn't write it, now you're going to listen to me babble like an old man?
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Yes!
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: What about you telling me?
AGIM BINAJ: Oh, it's my fault.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: You're going to break my head, you tell me.
AGIM BINAJ: Yes, you will break it because they are hardworking, honest people.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: No one can accuse me.
AGIM BINAJ: And the Bible has a definition.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: I'm leaving the Bible.
AGIM BINAJ: And the Bible, the Bible, the Bible, do you want me to read it?
AGIM BINAJ: I want you to read it. Now listen to me if you are willing.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Uh-huh.
AGIM BINAJ: Now, if you have the will, give me the will of my son.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Now these are forms…
AGIM BINAJ: Please, listen to me, I can't convince you.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Once again, these are forms of threats you are making to me.
AGIM BINAJ: No, I'm not threatening at all.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: You're telling me "You'll break my head."
AGIM BINAJ: You're going to break it because you have a bad mind.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Do I have it?
AGIM BINAJ: Why do you have it?
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Because…
AGIM BINAJ: That he accuses the honest man.
AGIM BINAJ: If you have evidence, accuse Ceno Klosin. What business do you have with me?
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: What business do I have with you?
AGIM BINAJ: You wrote it!
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: But I didn't write it. And maybe don't shout, man. Where did you get it?
AGIM BINAJ: There is a newspaper.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: But take him to court.
AGIM BINAJ: There's no need.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: But take it to court.
AGIM BINAJ: I know the person involved.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: You will sue me...
AGIM BINAJ: Me to you?
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Now don't make me lose my temper, you're yelling at me. You're threatening me!
AGIM BINAJ: I have the tone.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: He's threatening me!
AGIM BINAJ: I didn't even threaten you.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: You'll break my head, you said.
AGIM BINAJ: Are you going to break that...
THIRD PERSON: He said it as an expression.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Yes, some.
AGIM BINAJ: Because they are honest people, that's why you'll break your head.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Hey sir, you said he came as a patriot (referring to the head of the tax office, Ilir Binaj, who came from the USA).
AGIM BINAJ: But he came as a patriot.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Leave these alone, leave them alone.
...
AGIM BINAJ: And remember what I'm telling you.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: What's my business?
AGIM BINAJ: Listen, lip.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: It's his job, what he does...
AGIM BINAJ: Listen to yourself, I don't give a damn.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: I can't hear you at all.
AGIM BINAJ: You know I don't give a damn. I just wanted to get to know the person who accused me, that's all.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: I didn't accuse you, man.
AGIM BINAJ: Yes, you accused me in the newspaper.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Take me to court if I have accused you.
AGIM BINAJ: Listen to me, I don't deal with gossip.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: I'm not a scoundrel.
AGIM BINAJ: Will you listen to me and finally leave?
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Oh Lord, I am not a langaraq. You are calling me a langaraq, I am not a langaraq.
AGIM BINAJ: All those who write in vain are fools.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Me too?!
AGIM BINAJ: I'm not including you, maybe it's not you, but the others. But you wrote it there.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: And am I being lazy?
AGIM BINAJ: And it says according to…
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: And I'm a langaraq?
AGIM BINAJ: "I don't know, time will tell."
The conversation became more tense due to appointments in possible violation of the law by Tax Commissioner Ilir Binaj, about which lawyer Doku had received information from Taxation.
"In this case, I have information that the current head of the Tirana Regional Directorate is seconded to that position, but it is not only her. I have information that even during the time that I have been working at the Regional Tax Directorate, the majority or the best part of the heads are all seconded. This is a total violation of the law because in the Republic of Albania, no law recognizes seconded positions, there are no seconded positions," stated lawyer Doku.
One of the managers in the Tax Administration is Erilinda Lala, who was a manager who was illegally appointed to the position by Director General Binaj after the Director failed to take the exam at the Department of Public Administration and now in October 2025 she has been introduced to take the final exam.
According to the former director of audit at Taxes, Muharrem Doku, to be a manager in the Tax Administration, you must first have the status of a civil servant and the General Directorate of Taxes must announce job vacancies.
"This is also done in cooperation with the Department of Public Administration, which announces vacancies and an exam must be conducted to procure for the job positions. As far as I have information and as far as I have seen, there are no such announcements, especially for vacancies for managers, but not even for inspectors. And I think that these are all in violation of the law, appointments that have been made and are being made by the managers of the General Directorate of Taxes", said lawyer Doku.
From the research of "Vetting" it results that Erilinda Lala started working as the head of the cabinet of the tax chief Binaj in November 2024, while until the end of December 2024 she was a shareholder together with Marsida Dedej in the former company "GEA Construction", today "2D CONSTRUCTION 2025" shpk. On December 16, 2024, Lala would donate the shares of the company to Marsida Dedej.
But the fact that she was a shareholder in a private company indicates a possible conflict of interest, as tax officials cannot have businesses because the field in which they operate conflicts with their activity.
The problems with appointments in the tax administration are old and current, as they were highlighted during the time when Ceno Klosi, who is under investigation for fraud and falsification of documents, was in office.
According to lawyer Doku, these appointments exist to put pressure on subordinates in the Tax Administration.
"When a head or an employee has an appointment that he has earned through the exam in the Public Administration or the General Directorate of Taxes, you cannot exert pressure on him while performing his duty, but being in command, they are easier to blackmail and this is, I think, the path that those leaders have chosen to keep such leaders," said lawyer Doku.
This is also confirmed by the latest reports of the Supreme State Audit. Apparently, pressure on the Tax Administration from the people who run it or people connected to it, violation of the law is a fact.
Conversation captured from hidden camera 6, meeting between the father of the tax chief Binaj, Agim Binaj, and lawyer Muharrem Doku.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: I am very responsible.
AGIM BINAJ: Wait! Don't rush.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Did I write it?
AGIM BINAJ: Okay, come out and say it publicly, these are not my words.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: That you need it? That you need it?
AGIM BINAJ: Do I need/need it?
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: I'll burn you!
AGIM BINAJ: I don't even give a damn.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: All right.
AGIM BINAJ: Why? Because I'm so pure, I'm so pure that you can't even imagine.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: I realized how pure you are!
AGIM BINAJ: Oh well, okay.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: I realized how pure you are!
AGIM BINAJ: Okay then.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Ok.
AGIM BINAJ: Dear…
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Come on, goodbye.
AGIM BINAJ: I hear you well!
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Thank you!
AGIM BINAJ: To hear the good, not the bad!
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Thank you!
AGIM BINAJ: Don't mess with honest people... because you'll be talking to yourself tomorrow.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: You will speak, not me!
AGIM BINAJ: Me?!
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Don't threaten me! You will speak, not me.
AGIM BINAJ: Will I speak?
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Don't make threats...
AGIM BINAJ: I am right.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Things will work out with me. Things will work out with me!
AGIM BINAJ: With me?
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Eh…
AGIM BINAJ: For what?
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: Because you are threatening me.
AGIM BINAJ: UI don't make threats.
AV. MUHARREM DOKU: You'll break your head, I'm honest (referring to threats from Agim Binaj), things will work out.
AGIM BINAJ: I say you'll break your head because you accuse in vain...
