Agron Xhafaj is the brother of Minister of Interior Affairs Fatmir Xhafaj, who also served as Minister for Territorial Regulation and Tourism in 2002, Minister of Justice in 2003–2005, deputy chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Legal Issues, Public Administration and Human Rights in 2005-2013, chair of that Committee in 2013–2017, and chair of the Ad Hoc Parliamentary Committee on the Judicial System Reform in 2014-2017. Xhafaj may therefore be considered the father of the Justice Reform, which, with its defects and discrepancies, has paralyzed the entire judiciary system.
If Fatmir Xhafaj is the father, that would make his brother, Agron Xhafaj, the uncle of the Justice Reform, a reform that was meant to purge the judiciary system and open the EU accession negotiations.
However, even before his former collaborator came forward publicly, Agron Xhafaj was a well-known drug trafficker, safely branded as such by a ruling from the Italian courts. He is also someone who has escaped justice, whether Italy has requested his extradition or not.
He was aware, as was his famous brother, that he was sentenced to 7 years and 2 months in prison in Italy and had to carry out this sentence.
And, considering the fact that in every justice system, carrying out his sentence rehabilitates the convict, then a convict who has failed to do so remains indebted to justice and indisputably remains a criminal, a fugitive, someone who hides from the law, and has no place walking free in the streets of a normal country.
Meanwhile, in Albania, Agron Xhafaj files lawsuits against opposition MPs and labels the latest accusations against him as politically motivated, casting himself as a victim of the system.
However, citizens need not be convinced about whether or not Xhafaj is still active in orchestrating drug trafficking operations, in order to determine whether he is a victim of the system or not. Despite being “the uncle” of the Justice Reform, he remains a criminal and will be one until the time he carries out his sentence. He will remain one even if there is never an investigation into his criminal activities.
