The move comes at a time when the government has strongly complained that SHISH has been silent about a series of explosions, efforts from extremist Muslim groups to recruit persons for the Syrian war and also an increase of the crime rate.
TIRANA, April 23 – The parliamentary security commission has decided to investigate the intelligence service, SHISH for not appropriately conducting its mission and failing to coordinate work with the other law enforcement authorities.
The move comes after SHISH head Visho Ajazi Lika held his annual meeting with the parliament a day earlier. That comes at a time when the government has strongly complained that SHISH has been silent about a series of explosions, efforts from extremist Muslim groups to recruit persons for the Syrian war and also an increase of the crime rate.
But the opposition Democrats, through one of their lawmakers, former interior minister Flamur Noka, said that Ajazi Lika had told them SHISH had sent hundreds of pieces of information on the explosions.
Noka’s comments were strongly contested by MP Spartak Braho of the Socialist Movement for Integration Party, part of the governing coalition, who accused the opposition MP of publicly disclosing classified information.
A local newspaper reported a day later that Ajazi Lika had acknowledged that SHISH were caught by surprise on the group of Islamic militants recruiting people for the rebels in Syria war.
Top spy Ajazi Lika was nominated from the former government of then-Prime Minister Sali Berisha and he is accused of still reporting to the latter rather than the government now.
A group of five lawmakers, three from the governing coalition and two from the opposition, will be able to check and audit the work of the SHISH.
Opposition members of the parliamentary commission left the meeting after they insisted that before such a probe is carried out, defense minister Mimi Kodheli should report to the parliament on the alleged accusation that the army logistics have been exploited for illegal drug traffic.
The ever-squabbling political fight seems to get hotter in the country, right now when it is waiting for a positive answer from the European Union for its candidate status later in June.
