Former Deputy Prime Minister Arben Ahmetaj has published a bombshell audio recording, accusing Prime Minister Rama, Israeli businessman Ron Yeffet, and the companies TIMAK and KAYO of arms trafficking, the seizure of public assets, and the embezzlement of Albanian taxpayers’ funds.
The audio recording features four main characters: businessman Ron Yeffet, whom Ahmetaj said came to Albania as early as 2008 and has been cooperating with Rama since very early on; a woman named Tatiana; and two individuals identified as Sergei and Igor.
The conversation takes place in Ukrainian and English, while it reveals the scheme for how public assets and funds would be acquired through the companies TIMAK and KAYO, and subsequently how weapons and ammunition arriving from African countries would be packaged, repackaged in Albania, and sent to Ukraine and beyond.
The audio recordings have been divided into six parts, each of which explains how the scheme would operate.
In Audio Recording 1, Yeffet tells his interlocutors Tatiana, Igor and Sergei that the private company will hold 80%-90% of the shares, while the state-owned company will hold 10%-20%, followed by a separate agreement. Yeffet makes it clear that he himself will not formally be part of it, while the point of contact will be Defense Minister Ermal Nufi, who at the time was Deputy Secretary General of the Prime Minister’s Office.
Audio Recording 1
Ron Yeffet: We will be, as I said yesterday, 80%. Government will have 10 or 20%. Igor will have 80 or 90%, whatever we decide, and then we will have a side agreement. But I cannot be on these…formally. Maybe later on…right now
Ron Yeffet:Once it goes to passes the Council of Ministers on Monday. Monday or Tuesday there is a Council of Ministers, then we will be in touch with the Deputy General Secretay of the Prime Minister office.
Tatian: Who is that?
Ron: I will tell you that…Rafael or whoever we decide.
Tatiana: Translates in Ukrainian.
Ron Yeffet: Erma Nufi is his name.
Ron Yeffet: The deputy General Secretary, mister Ermal Nufi, will be in touch, it is you or Rafael, I don’t know who Is the representative, will be in touch with you to put these or these together.
Ron Yeffet: Different, but the same concept
Tatiana: Ah of course, because KAYO is in defence
Ron Yeffet: Right, the same concept but not KAYO.
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In Audio Recording 2, Yeffet explains to his interlocutors that the government will transfer the properties to a discussion concerning state-owned properties and will then select a foreign partner company. He proposes that the Ukrainian company should not appear as such, but rather as an American company, so that the U.S. Embassy in Tirana can be silenced. Yeffet also says that they will take Vlora.
Audio Recording 2
Ron Yeffet: The government needs to make it 100% governmental agency stocks. Then the government will choose an agency cooperationwith the 100% stock of government, enterers in to the establishment company
Tatiana: Translates in Ukrainian
Ron Yeffet: I recommend, I recommend that you gone have, I your shares, in these company not the Ukrainian guy, but an American corporation, because is much better for the Americans.
Ron Yeffet: The shell company is an governmental company, the shareholder wich Igor has in the governmental company, is going to be owned by the US company. Each shareholder, the shares is not going to be under Igor, but will be under the American corporation that is partnering up with the Albanian Government for that.
Tatiana: Translates in Ukrainian
Ron Yeffet: And then we close them up, the American Embassy, we close them up because is the American company.
Ron Yeffet: I have a question.
Ron Yeffet: Our plan is not changing, right?
Ron Yeffet: We are going to take Vlora, correct? We are going to take Vlora and in vlora we are going to take the gas from there to Vlora.
Tatiana: Our company will make it possible to move the gas from there to Vlora.
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Audio Recording 3 provides information about the trafficking of weapons from Africa to Ukraine and beyond, using Albanian territory and the companies KAYO and TIMAK for repackaging. Yeffet says that weapons are a good business, generating hundreds of millions of euros in profits, while discussing with his interlocutors his connections in Nigeria and Sudan.
Audio Recording 3
Ron Yeffet: So, in Africa we decided to go to generate the business, there is approximately a very big business, a very very good business, hundreds of millions that we can do with ammunition manufacture.
Tatina: With Kayo
Ron Yeffet: Yes.
Tatiana: Translates in Ukrainian
Sergy: Speaks in Ukrainian language
Tatiana: So you mean to…
Ron Yeffet: In these moment, right now I have two, right now 3, in Nigeria and in Sudan,
Sergy: Speaks in Ukrainian language
Ron Yeffet: Sergei you been to Africa? Come with me…come with me…come come in February come come with me.
Ron Yeffet: Igor
Tatiana: he can’t come
Ron Yeffet: we will send you pictures
Ron Yeffet: You can come also to see, to understand the Sudan, you understand…
Ron Yeffet: You speak French?
Sergei: Only Deutch
Ron Yeffet: we have to make orders with money
Sergei: Speaks in Ukrainian and we hear “Gana Angola Nigeria”
Sergei and Tatiana seaks in Ukrainian
Tatiana: Where do you want to have the packaging? Which country?
Ron Yeffet: I thought Albania
Tatiana: Albania
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Tatiana: In Africa you are working with KAYO, of course.
Ron Yeffet: we don’t know that
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Audio Recording 4 sheds further light on the way Ron Yeffet operates, revealing that he can supply weapons without the need for tenders, as he has done in France, Italy and Albania, while his interlocutor Tatiana challenges him, telling him that in Ukraine every purchase is made through tenders.
Audio Recording 4
Igor: Speaks in Ukrainian (we hear the word TIMAK and Ukraine)
Tatiana: So another option that we have to following up any, internation funds, programs whatever,usually our government a need about for example, ambulances, army cars whatever.
Tatiana: Usually how it works, for example, the government knows that there are these or that…for example in TIMAK, right and than TIMAK is ready to supply those. Than we find the founds, who is ready to fund the process. The government signs for the funds
Tatiana: KAYO…YOU, NATO suppliers…(inaudible)
Ron Yeffet: what the steps
Tatiana: Speaks in Ukrainian language
Ron Yeffet: Another way to do it, is to open up a partnership, one corporation with the government of Ukraine.
Tatiana: Unfortunately, everything goes through tender
Tatiana: Speaks in Ukrainian language
Ron Yeffet: I dit it now in France, I have ti here, I did it in Italy
Tatiana: Speaks in Ukrainian language
Ron Yeffet: And we don’t need tenders
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In Audio Recording 5, Yeffet reveals to the Ukrainian trio that he has become a minister, apparently referring to Ermal Nufi’s appointment as Minister of Defense by Rama in February 2026. Nufi’s name also appears in Audio Recording 1 as the point of contact mentioned by Yeffet, at a time when he was Deputy Secretary General to Prime Minister Rama.
Audio Recording 5
Ron Yeffet: After last night, I became Minister
Ron Yeffet: Yesterday night I became Minister
Tatiana: How did these happened
Ron Yeffet: Did you see the program, one and a half hour with the program
Tatiana: Oh really?
Ron Yeffet: Yeah, one and a half hour
Igor: Opposition or..?
Ron Yeffet: Opposition, one and a half hour
(Talking about the investigative program PLUG)
Tatiana: Julian Hoxhaj’
Ron Yeffet: Who is that
Tatiana: He is the one who prepared these material
Tatiana: He is the journalist who written, the show is written by journalist Julian Hoxhaj
Ron Yeffet: Julian Hoxhaj
Tatiana: Speaks in Ukrainian language
Ron Yeffet: After these show in one hour…I’m gone start to make money
Tatiana: Speaks in Ukrainian language
Ron Yeffet: They said that I recived 3 milion euro, show me the money hahahahh
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In the final audio recording, Yeffet claims that the government has hired him for all the bad things that need to be done, while emphasizing that there is no need for a tender or to follow the procedures.
Audio Recording 6
Ron Yeffet talks to Igor
Ron Yeffet: You are a rich man, I know you don’t care about money but you are a very rich man.
Igor: I have little money
Ron Yeffet: You are a rich man
Ron Yeffet: I’m working with rich
Igor: ok ok
Ron Yeffet: But i want to be rich
Tatiana: So the Ambasador (Ukrainian) is actually working very hardinside the incorporation team for the transportation…
Ron Yeffet: Tell me what you want from here, you deal over there, let’s put orders
Ron Yeffet: Come on, we are in the last quarter fo our lives
Ron Yeffet: Let’s do i’t, just do i’t
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Audio Recording 7
Ron Yeffet: These way, we don’t need to do tender.
Tatiana: Speaks in Ukrainian language
Ron Yeffet: we don’t need to go through the whole procedure, of explaining all the stuff.
Ron Yeffet: The government took us over because all the bad thing we could do.
Ron Yeffet: And the government has found a partner, an operational partner…who is going to make investments, is going to do that, and the government…
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*You can watch Ahmetaj’s full interview with journalist Çim Peka on Syri TV
