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VIP escorts who defy the law: Why is no one investigating them and is it time to legalize prostitution?

2025-08-14 14:23:15Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
VIP escorts who defy the law: Why is no one investigating them and is it time to
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In Albania, luxury prostitution has become an open but untouchable scene. The very popular showbiz girls, singers, models and influencers, appear in public as shining stars, but behind the scenes they serve as escorts for the country's richest and most dangerous clients.

From the data obtained from recent investigations, the amounts these girls receive are shocking: one VIP escort has benefited from up to 150 thousand euros for just one week from one of the most famous crime bosses. Others, for a luxury weekend in Dubai or other destinations, are paid 10 to 20 thousand euros, while long-term agreements reach hundreds of thousands of euros.

Many of them, with initials like AK, LB, EM, DG, SK, RM, KN, JP, AZ, ML, RR, AD, E.Dh., MP, ED, TS, NR, Zh.F., LD, NI, AL, are names that shine on stage and on Instagram, but they use their fame to attract powerful clientele, often from the world of drugs, trafficking and organized crime.

It is no longer a secret that these connections exist, it is a reality known to the public. And yet, no one dares to investigate them. Neither the police nor the prosecution calls any of these girls for questioning, even when everyone knows that it is enough to follow the trail of money to reach the biggest drug and crime bosses in Albania.

It has become a silent culture: everyone knows, no one does anything. They are treated as untouchable, as immune to the law. This untouchability has turned them into entrepreneurs of luxury prostitution, with profits that often exceed the wealth of the "bosses" who keep them.

At a time when SPAK is mainly focused on cracking down on criminal groups, this may be one of those cases where the threads of organized crime are directly connected to politics. VIP escorts, due to their clientele, touch both worlds, that of trafficking, drugs and dirty money, and that of political power.

The investigation of this network would bring to light not only secret relationships between well-known showbiz figures and crime bosses, but also their connections to key political figures, exposing a system of silent collaboration that has operated for years.

From luxury apartments and villas on the coast, sports cars that cost over 200 thousand euros, vacations in the world's most expensive destinations, to handbags and watches that are worth more than an ordinary Albanian's annual salary, all purchased with black money, undeclared and without any taxes paid.

Meanwhile, the money circulating in this black market is not declared, is not monitored and does not bring any income to the state budget. If these amounts, which range from tens to hundreds of thousands of euros per client, were part of the formal economy, their taxation alone would provide millions of euros per year. But as long as prostitution is illegal and institutions remain silent, the only beneficiaries remain organized crime and the “VIPs” themselves who have turned their bodies into the most profitable business in the country.

Is it time for prostitution to be legalized and taxed, bringing transparency and control to an industry that is thriving outside of any legal norms? Or should we continue to live with a reality where Albania is increasingly becoming a haven for luxury prostitution and dirty money? 

Institutional silence is complicity. The more this phenomenon is tolerated, the deeper the country sinks into a culture where crime, black money, and showbiz blur borders, creating a world where law is only dreamed of. /ikonstyle


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