At the beginning of February 2026, Daniel Shima, former deputy director of the National Agency of Information Society, who was not part of the criminal group until that time, was subsequently denounced, where SPAK cut several sheets – the arrest, headed by director Mirlinda Karçanaj. Two and a half months later, the prosecutor Bled Maksuti put Daniel Shima in the same “bag” as the officials and businessmen, who are accused of extorting the state coffers in a criminal manner.
Currently, according to the documents available to our editorial office, Shima was officially placed under investigation in February of this year, for a multitude of violations and benefits during the time he was in the dome of AKSHI. The 35-year-old, says the prosecution, is suspected of committing criminal offenses of violating the equality of participants in public tenders or auctions. He did these actions in the form of cooperation with the structured criminal group.
Meanwhile, in the same documents, it is detailed that prosecutor Maksuti has also charged Daniel Shima with being a “structured criminal group”. It also accuses him of committing criminal offenses by a criminal organization and a structured criminal group. The criminal offense of passive corruption of persons exercising public functions has also been added to it.
A multitude of accusations leveled against a former state official, who until yesterday was seen as a “victim”, but now it seems that he was not only not a victim, but was quite active and one of the most influential people at the head of the National Association of National Accountants. The prosecution writes in the indictment that Shima and Karçanaj themselves cooperated, even trying to clean the money suspected of corruption in the direction of the Agency.
“Regarding the illegal income obtained in the form of corruption by the investigated Mirlinda Karçanaj, there are reasonable doubts based on evidence, which analyzed in harmony with each other, lead to believe the fact that she benefited from the citizen Daniel Shima, the value of 200,000 (two hundred thousand) euros”, writes SPAK.
It further follows that indirectly, citizen Arjola Koromani, through citizen Daniel Shima, received several wine boxes filled with 100, 200 and 500 euro banknotes from citizen Mirlinda Karçanaj.
So, concrete actions on the part of Daniel, who is also involved in the purchase of a property from Karçanaj in the area of Qerret, in Kavajë.
“From the question of the citizen Rafael Bistri, regarding the circumstances of the purchase of a real estate and its sale to the sister of the citizen Daniel Shima (citizen Enxhi Shima), he states in summary that he was completely unaware and did not remember any circumstances. His name is related to receiving an amount of 80 thousand euros in loans and then made the notarial statement”, writes SPAK.
The accusation has proven that “the real value of the transaction carried out for the purchase of this apartment is 160 thousand euros and not what was declared in the notarial acts, where the purchase of 80 thousand euros was paid in cash by the investigated Mirlinda Karçanaj with income derived from criminal activity”.
In the same file, the testimony of the citizen Migena Schroeder, owner of the company “AESS”, who stated that in 2022, was contacted by the former deputy director of AKSHI, Daniel Shima, to meet him. He asked Migena to become part of a project called “Smart lab”, which would be installed in schools.
Before the tender was made, without opening the envelopes and everything else, Danieli told him that the project would be realized by the company “Albascan” and that Migena should meet with the representative of the company, Alison Jorgji. The reason was that this company had the exclusivity of some equipment, while Daniel wanted AKSHI to create a good image, using American companies.
The prosecution writes in the file that there are doubts that Karçanaj benefited from Daniel Shima in the amount of 200 thousand euros.
“Construction, marketing and car wash”, this was Daniel Shima’s network of companies after he left AKSHI. Vox News published in early February 2026, a series of investigations into the actions and attempts of money laundering by Daniel Shima.
“The last three years have been very hectic for Daniel Shimë, the former deputy director of AKSHI, starting with investigations by the Special Prosecutor’s Office, suspicions of favoring a firm in tenders, leaving office, ‘disappearing’ and finally a network of companies that ‘grew out of nothing’. VoxNews found with documents and sources from several institutions how Daniel made his seamstress mother a businesswoman, turning over millions of euros, buying plots, apartments, and received construction permits in several cities”, our editors wrote.
Through the documents, Vox News found that Daniel’s friends, Sokol Përllaku and Redvin Marku, managed to create and manage several companies, again with turnover and property worth tens of millions of euros. Sokoli, after the cooperation and transactions with Merita Shima, opened several other companies in the construction field, while taking Redvin Marku as an administrator. The name of the latter is the “connection” between Përllak and Daniel himself, since the moment Daniel left AKSHI, he opened a company in his name and took Redvin as administrator!
“After leaving the position of the deputy director of AKSHI, Daniel decided to go public, founding the company ‘Digital Euphoria’, a company that dealt with consulting and marketing. In 2023, at the peak of Daniel Shima’s career, his first cousin, Marin Shpata, opened the company ‘E-Lava’, which had several car washes, a business that exceeded the figure of 500 thousand euros”, wrote the editors ours.
Vox News has learned that Daniel’s sister and girlfriend entered the business, opening both companies, which they camouflaged as “international”. Has Daniel’s anger spread to other countries?! How much money did he save from his salary as deputy director of AKSHI?! Or is it the money he managed during that job, favoring a clan?!
