Vangjush Dako was born in Durrës, on 29 November 1966.
He attended Tirana University's School of Engineering, where he graduated in 1991.
[4] In June 2023, Vangjush Dako (and 8 other officials of the Municipality of Durres) were arrested by order of the SPAK for abuse of power in two cases.
The first case concerns the construction of a building in Durrës, which collapsed due to the earthquake in November 2019, and to which extra floors were added without permission, legalised by Mayor Dako through non-transparent procedures.
The second concerns a tenfold increase in the cost of work on the project to build a promenade in the Currilove area of the municipality, causing a loss of ALL 18 million to the state budget.