Zeka, Sheholli and the USB BIA's Playbook

Evidence shows Milaim Zeka’s portal weaponised BIA-fed recordings via Fatmir Sheholli to smear Nenad Rasic and destabilise Kosovo’s Assembly Elections.

What began as a string of breathless “exclusives” on a fringe portal has spiralled into a counter-intelligence case with real stakes for Kosovo’s fragile institutions. At the centre of it stand two men: Fatmir Sheholli, a political operator long rumoured to have one foot in the intelligence world, and Milaim Zeka, a voluble media figure who has alternated for years between crusading self-mythology and the grubby, transactional politics of kompromat¹. In the past fortnight, the scaffolding that held their relationship together has become visible and with it a picture of how Serbian intelligence set out to shape Kosovo’s politics through a made-for-media operation that ran straight at the heart of the Assembly’s constitution.

On 30 September, Zeka’s portal “Pa Rrotlla” began publishing what it presented as audio “transcripts²” implicating Nenad Rasic by then poised to become the ethnic-Serb deputy speaker³ in talk of kickbacks, invoices and favours.

“Pa Rrotlla brings exclusively… a conver…