Dismembered and Packed in Suitcases, Pasho Couple’s Son Testifies

Two dismembered bodies and stuffed into three suitcases, belonging to an Albanian couple from Vlora, who have been declared missing since 2015, were found in Florence of Italy on December 2020. Now, the murder of the Pasho couple is back in the spotlight by the Italian media.

After being extradited by the Swiss authorities in Italy, the son of Shpëtim and Teuta Pasho, Taulant Pasho testified to the prosecution about the disappearance and subsequent murder of his parents. Taulant's ex-girlfriend, Elona Kalesha, was arrested as a suspect for this event.

In his first testimony to the Italian prosecution, Taulant Pasho testified that he was unaware of the pregnancy of his ex-girlfriend, Elona Kaleshi.

Italian media write that Pasho, during the interrogation in Como with the prosecutor Ornella Galeotti, the cycle is investigating the murder of his parents, Teuta and Shpëtim Pasho, whose remains were found in December in 4 suitcases in Solliciano, categorically ruled out that he could have been the father of that child whom Kaleshi had aborted.

But the issue of the child is not the only one that Taulant Pasho was not aware of, Taulant was not aware of the money that his parents had with him, money which is considered as a reason for the murder and massacre of the Pasho couple. In the lengthy confrontation, as a suspect, Taulanti, who is now serving a sentence for drug possession and evasion after being imprisoned in Switzerland for other crimes, said that in the days after his release from prison, he was given about 20,000 euros he had lent to his girlfriend.

Prosecutor Galeotti does not rule out that they may be part of the large sum of 50, 60 thousand euros that, as confirmed by Taulant himself, his parents always kept with them. As to why he did not report their disappearance, he feared he would be deported from Italy because of his ancestry and preferred that his sisters be the ones to have contact with the carabinieri.

The carabinieri have ascertained that Elona Kalesha, currently detained for the murder and massacre of the bodies of her two mothers-in-law, had an abortion in Careggi on October 27, 2015. At that time, the woman had rented the apartment in Fontana where the crime was committed. double. Murders that investigators say may have been committed between the afternoon of November 1 and the early hours of November 2, the day Taulant was released from prison in Solliciano.

Taulant himself is under investigation for the massacre of his parents. Along with him, under investigation is also his ex-girlfriend, Elona Kaleshi who is currently imprisoned in Solliciano and her younger brother Denis Kaleshi. The remains of the Pasho couple were found last December in four abandoned suitcases in a field between Solliciano prison.