FLASH
Shkruar nga Pamfleti
Thousands of citizens and tourists in the Golem and Qerret areas were left without internet today.
According to a complaint received by Pamfleti, the company Abissnet has completely cut off the signal at Golem-Qerret beach.
Even though we are in the tourist season, Koço Kokëdhimë's company, without any warning, has cut off the internet, creating problems for hotels and businesses in this area.
But recent developments show that this company has had bigger problems than citizens' internet lines, as there are suspicions that it supplies fraudulent call centers.
A few weeks ago, the Tirana Prosecution Office raided three call centers in the capital and arrested ten people in the operation that uncovered a 50 million euro fraud against European Union citizens.
The Prosecutor's Office's official announcement on criminal proceedings No. 3377 contains a technical detail of great investigative weight: investigators "from official communications with internet companies in Albania discovered the end users of these IPs, which have been functional since at least November 2023". Although 26 million euros were extorted from only 150 Austrian victims through these lines, none of these internet companies have been publicly named.
Pamphlet conducted a technical verification on the public databases of Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit and RIPE NCC, the regional Internet registrar for Europe. According to this data, Abissnet sh.a. operates with two autonomous system numbers (AS35047 and AS207368) and owns seven main IPv4 blocks with about 18,432 public addresses in total. One of these blocks, 185.9.44.0/24, is explicitly labeled “Abissnet Business Customers” — precisely the segment that offers static IPs to business customers, a must-have product for any professional call center. The data is accessible and verifiable by anyone in real time. The technical question that remains for the Tirana Prosecutor’s Office alone is: do the two suspicious IPs identified by the Austrian authorities belong to Abissnet’s blocks or to the blocks of another provider?
A critical part of the Tirana Prosecutor's Office file identifies Eduard Dalla, 48, as an "intermediary between call centers and various internet service providers." The prosecution confirms that Dalla "concluded internet contracts in the name of his fictitious companies registered with the Central Bank, to make identification through IPs more difficult."
The detail that sparked the investigation: Eduard Dalla's personal phone number was registered in "an internet contract in the name of the fictitious person Jose Santos." This data raises two inevitable questions: which Albanian ISP issued a contract in the name of a fictitious person without verifying the identity, and which ISP billed a marketing consultancy every month for internet traffic suitable for 100 to 450 workstations?
Sources close to the investigation indicate that the main company that could have provided internet service to most of the call centers affected by the April 13 operation is Abissnet sh.a., one of the oldest operators in the Albanian internet market, historically linked to the figure of businessman and former socialist MP Koço Kokëdhima.
Ja kete turizëm promovon dhe instalon Ramuti dhe banditet e tij kriminal antishqiptare. Shporrini jasht zyrave te shtetit keta qener ramutët e salehët.
Koço Kokdhimi, është kanceri i Ramës.