Saturday, April 25th 2026
The Jet Bank ghost, when the rules of the Bank of Albania “evaporate” for the friends of the Rama government
The licensing of Jet Bank on March 31, as the first fully digital electronic money institution in Albania, has been presented by the government narrative as an epoch-making achievement of modernization and financial inclusion.
However, behind the glittering facade of innovation and “remote processing” technology, hides a frightening reality of contradictory documents, characters with a history of fraud and an ownership structure that seems to have been specially designed to hiding real identities.
The Jet Bank case is not just a business case. It is appearing as a node where dark economic interests, geopolitical movements and a deliberate failure of the Albanian state to protect the integrity of our financial system are combined.
Doubts start from the beginning, with the existence of two official documents that prove an open fraud against the institutions. On July 8, 2025, the company “Jet Albania” was registered at the National Business Center (NBC) with registration number: M51923013I, where the Israeli owner Idan Avishai declared capital of English origin.
But, only eight months later, in license no. 20 granted by the Bank of Albania, the same entity is presented as 100 percent with Dutch capital. This “chameleonism” of money is not a bureaucratic slip, but a screaming alarm about the lack of control over the origin of the funds that are being allowed to circulate in our country.
At the heart of this structure is Idan Avishai, a name whose threads extend deep into the world of “gray areas” and unlicensed currency trading. Avishai, who has served as Marketing Director at illegal gaming platforms such as Play65 – closed by order of the Attorney General of Israel in 2006 – has direct links to the Fortrade (FXLider) platform.
The latter was officially reported by the Financial Supervision Authority (AMF) in Albania in 2018 for exercising financial activity without permission and fraud. Today, this person controls 71.5 percent of Jet Bank through a chain of companies registered in “tax havens” such as Cyprus and through shell companies in the Netherlands.
But Avishai is not alone in this “phantom” venture. The bank’s board is more like a list of people under international investigation than a banking supervisory body. Oliver Hemmer, a member of this board, is connected to the fraudulent platform “4XFX”, investigated in four European countries for extortion, while Rami Solomon, a former official of the Ministry of Health in Israel with no experience in this field, completes this absurd mosaic.
The question that the state does not dare to ask is: how did these individuals manage to pass the filter of “cleanliness and suitability of the image” of the Bank of Albania, when their past was accessible with a simple internet search?
The lack of transparency becomes even more apparent when analyzing the bank’s secret architecture. Nearly 30 percent of the shares are owned by five Israeli companies that neatly exploit a “loophole” in the Albanian law: the 25 percent threshold for declaring the ultimate beneficial owners.
By dividing the shares into small parts below this threshold, Jet Bank keeps the real owners of one third of its capital in total darkness. Neither the public, nor the journalists, and apparently not even the regulatory bodies, know who the people who are taking the money and financial data of the Albanians really are.
And here the political dimension of the Rama government cannot be avoided. The swift licensing of Jet Bank surgically coincides with the reorientation of Albanian foreign policy towards Israel, following Prime Minister Rama’s visit to Tel Aviv earlier this year.
As Tirana distances itself from traditional partners, it is handing over strategic sectors – such as banking and technology surveillance – to an Israeli capital of unclear origin, which in a year has tripled its presence in Albania, from real estate to industry. military.
It is a well-known model, where the government promotes “innovation” as a cover for the lack of accountability and favoring the friends of power. The fact that the executive director of the bank, Fatbardha Rino, is a close family relation of the Minister of State for Enterprise Delina Ibrahimaj, explains the paved road and the lack of obstacles in this “licensing” process.
Furthermore, the legal changes approved in a hurry in the parliament, pave the way for companies connected to this bank to benefit from total exemption from taxes in the industrial park of Durana, an area often denounced as a haven for organized crime transactions.
In fact, the first registered addresses of Jet Albania on “Rrugë e Kavaja” coincided with the illegal call-centers hit by SPAK. This synchronization between crime, Israeli technology and banking is a time bomb for the stability of our country.
Digital innovation cannot serve as a sophisticated “washing machine” blessed by state offices. If international institutions like MONEYVAL do not intervene to close these dark areas of ownership, the risk will not only be financial, but an irreparable blow to Albania’s sovereignty.
Jet Bank remains today a monument of lack of transparency, where modernization and fraud coexist under the protection of power, leaving citizens with the unanswered question: are our savings really safe, or are they simply financing “shadows” that do not know the law? /tesheshi
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Source: prizrenpost
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