TIRANA, Feb. 14 – A business owner was shot in head with a silencer weapon in Tirana’s prestigious Blloku neighborhood at about 9 p.m. Wednesday, police said.
Memli (Afrim) Begalla, 64, was going to his Range Rover parked below his apartment building on Nikolla Tupe St. when he was shot dead, according to several local media reports.
Police said a black BMW was seen leaving the scene but no arrests have been made.
The victim was in his 60s and police are looking at possible business-related motives for the shooting, such as unpaid debts, local media reported.
He owned two tire businesses and had registered a company for work in tourism, energy, construction and import exports, an extract from the business registration agency noted.
A journalist with Panorama newspaper who lives in the same building as Begalla told the newspaper this is the second shooting of its kind in what is supposed to be one of the most prestigious areas of Tirana, the Wilson Square – Blloku area neighborhood, citing frustration with an increase of such targeted violence in Tirana.
