Alibeaj: How sure are we that SHISH data hasn’t fallen into the hands of organized crime?

Former Justice Minister Enkelejd Alibeaj has raised questions about the security of the information gathered by the State Intelligence Service (SHISH) and the risk that sensitive data of the institution may have ended up in the hands of organized crime.

“The whole system is compromised here, the entire SHISH structure. Let me do a simple thing, because I believe this is important. How sure are we that the official information collected by SHISH has been transferred to organized crime? How sure are we that NATO’s sensitive information has been transferred through this channel to unfriendly foreign agencies? How sure are we of something else — that the entire network of SHISH informants is today in the hands of organized crime?” Alibeaj said.

Alibeaj separated individual criminal liability from institutional responsibility, arguing that the consequences of such a situation, in his view, cannot be treated as merely an individual matter.

“So here we don’t just have a lady who at one point slipped and then the responsibility is individual. Yes, it is individual vis-à-vis criminal law. But the institutional responsibility — the damage that has been caused — is not simply individual,” he said.

According to Alibeaj, there must be accountability for information that may have fallen into the wrong hands and that, in his view, could also be used for blackmail.