In this role, he participated in December 1973 as head of a military delegation on a visit to the People's Liberation Army.

[3] In July 1974, he was pinpointed as associate of Defense Minister Beqir Balluku for inciting revisionist ideas and put on trial in a military court for an alleged attempt of coup d'etat, consequently accused of treason.

He was condemned to death soon after and executed, together with Balluku and the head of the General Political Bureau of the Armed Forces, Hito Çako.

He was immediately succeeded as Chief of General Staff by Sami Metollari, but in 1975 Veli Llakaj took over.

[4][5][6] On 18 July 2000, after the collapse of communism in Albania, at the request of his family, his body was exhumed from a secret grave in Horë-Vranisht in Vlorë District, together with those of the other generals that shared his fate.