Letter written on May 23, 2018 by SPAK penitent, Luftar Reçi sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of Maksim Lala and the burning of his body, a murder that he claims was ordered by Ymer Lala. Luftar Reçi, who has confessed to the sensational murders of 2005, sends the letter to 34-year-old Erjon Llapushi, a well-known figure in the criminal world, who in October 2021 killed for banal reasons the chief waiter of a restaurant in Elbasan, Gazment Kurmakun, for booking a table. Erjon Llapushi and Luftar Reçi have spent a certain period of time together in prison, creating friendships. While Llapushi has been released from prison to commit the next crime, Luftar Reçi writes a letter,
In the 10-page letter, Luftar Reçi writes to Erjon Llapushi, who today is one of the most wanted people by the police, that he knows so many unsolved crimes that if he were to tell them, a prison should be opened in Albania. ri. Luftar Reçi talks in the letter about the connections with Agron Kulicaj, the former most trusted bodyguard of Sali Berisha and then Deputy General Director of the State Police from 2005 to 2013. Kulicaj had in superior letters first Bajram Ibraj, then Ahmet Premçi, while in the end Hysni Burgaj, but in reality he was the head of the three.
Luftar Reçi, one of the important people in the criminal world, writes to Erjon Llapushi, that only Agron Kulicaj had a friend for life and a leading friend. Reçi says that Kuliaj has relieved the mountain with serious charges and that he has escaped from life imprisonment.
'Friend leads and friend for life I only had Agron Kulicaj, and from him I have so many years in prison. If it weren't for that man, at least ... I would have received life imprisonment. But, it was that man and all the charges fell and only the murder of Ymer Lala's cousin, who was convicted in Burrel, remained. I am probably the only convict who by the order of Agron Kulicaj did not make the annulment in the Appeal. Because they would punish me ... because I have murder and burning corpses. So, I had him and I have a friend ", writes Luftar Reçi, among others. Reçi was convicted in 2008, at a time when Agron Kulicaj was the Deputy General Director of the State Police.
The US Embassy in Tirana, in a cable sent to DASH on November 25, 2009, writes that Agron Kulicaj is corrupt and linked to crime. "Not only the corrupt practices for Kulicaj are already known, but there are voices inside the police who believe that Kulicaj himself, probably helped Dritan Dajti to escape the failed arrests in the past .... Burgaj (complains to the embassy of USA) has expressed that he has his problems with Kulicaj and others suspected of corruption in the police and links to organized crime. Mr. Burgaj is intimidated as Kulicaj is a close associate of the prime minister and his former bodyguard. Burgaj's suggestion regarding the embassy's concerns regarding Kulicaj should be presented to Prime Minister Berisha,
Ndërkaq, në letrën e tij, Luftar Reçi, nënkupton se Erjon Llapushi është pjesë e grupit të Çapjave në Elbasan, madje i sugjeron Llapushit që të informojë Çapjat për goditjen që po përgatitet ndaj tyre. Sipas tij, Çapjat janë në rrezik pasi janë pa pushtet, për shkak se janë të PD-së. Duke rrëfyer për krime të ndryshime, Luftar Reçi, në një farë mënyrë edhe e shantazh Erjon Llapushin, pasi shkruan për një letër anonime që i kanë dërguar, në të cilën flitet për vrasje ku ka marrë pjesë edhe Llapushi shkruan shqiptarja.
Lufta Reçi, i dënuar me 25 vite burgim për vrasjen e Maksim Lalës, ka rrëfyer në datat 21 tetor, 31 tetor dhe 26 nëntor 2020 para SPAK, të gjithë veprimtarinë kriminale që pretendon se ka pasur me Lulzim Berishën dhe anëtarët e tjerë të bandës së tij, me qëllim për të zbutur dënimin e tij.
Me rrëfimet e tij Reçi ka implikuar: Viktor Bajraktari (Imeraj), Emiljano Shullazi, Indrit Taullai, Lulzim Berisha, Plarent Dervishaj, Indrit Rusi dhe veten e tij, në vrasjen e Klodjan Saliut, Vajdin Lamajt dhe mikut të tij Artan Arsi. Pas këtyre rrëfimeve, SPAK ka marrë masa duke arrestuar dhe shpallur në kërkim të implikuarit.
Nga ana tjetër, Shullazi vuri në lëvizje Elton Goskovën, i njohur si Reqi i Korçës, bashkë me Ervis Kosovën, të cilët kanë tentuar të korruptonin familjarët e Luftar Reçit, me qëllim për të ndryshuar dëshminë për vrasjet. Vetë Reçit i janë ofruar 260 mijë euro për të ndryshuar dëshminë.
In addition to offers and threats against Luftar Reçi's family members, in order to force the latter to testify, the people involved in the sensational killings have started implementing a plan B. The plan envisaged the physical elimination of Luftar Reçi in Drenova prison, with side of food poisoning. Both plans were thwarted and hit by the SPAK.