Controversial consequences from Trebicka’s death investigation

TIRANA, Sep 17 – Preliminary investigation of Kosta Trebicka’s death are bringing out controversial results strengthening the voices of an alleged murder and not a casual death in a car accident.
Officially the interior ministry and police reported that preliminary investigation had shown many traumas found in Trebicka’s body as a result of the roll over of his Nissan 4xdrive car.
Television views showed Trebicka’s body lied about 40 meters away from his car. A hunting rifle was found nearby. His face was bloodied and had also a trauma in the back.
All these were clear signs of a body violently leaving a car in an accident.
But there were immediate hints that his trauma in the back of his head could unlikely not be a suffering from the move out of the car.
Following that there were also voices that there was no sign of any blood spot in his car.
There were also voices that another person could have been with him, that he had two rooms at a hotel.
All those pushed the opposition leaders and other persons to declare that he was very likely killed and not died in an accident.
Such voices came also from Spartak Ngjela, a lawmaker of the governing Democratic Party who has been at odds with Prime Minister Sali Berisha.
There has been no official statement on the cause of Trebicka’s death from prosecutors.
Opposition leaders accuse Berisha of pressuring legal teams in order to prevent it from shedding light on his government’s scandals.
They have also voiced wide suspicions of him being behind the businessman’s death.
The trafficking row of ammunition sold to Afghanistan from a U.S. based company (in a contract with Pentagon) followed a deadly explosion in the village of Gerdec on March 15, which left 26 people dead, 300 wounded and more than 5,500 buildings destroyed or damaged.
In a testimony last week to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Undersecretary of State, Daniel Fried, said the blast investigation would put the Albanian government in a difficult position.
Albanian Prosecutor general Ina Rama has asked for the assistance from specialized U.S. FBI experts to investigate Trebicka’s death.
Meanwhile the central government blamed Rama for not asking for protecting Trebicka considered as an important witness in the case. That followed the claim from the opposition that Trebicka’s protection was a government duty. But Interior Minister Bujar Nishani said they had no request for his protection from the prosecutor’s office.