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DerSpiegel: Is Rama "selling" Albania's assets in exchange for political support
2024-09-13 20:30:14 / POLITIKË
The prestigious DerSpiegel, in her article where she writes about the Rama government's corruption and ties to crime, raises the question of whether the prime minister is "selling" Albania's assets in exchange for political support.
The article also mentions Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and the former American emissary for the Balkans, Richard Grenell, who are planning large investments in the island of Sazan with Rama's blessing.
"The former senior FBI agent, Charles McGonigal, who is now convicted, admitted that he was paid in Albania to provide services in the interest of the government. He also admitted that he had several meetings with Edi Rama in the government building. The Prime Minister denies any guilt," the article reads, among other things.
Excerpt from the DerSpiegel article:
Kushner and Grenell Investments
The money of the Albanian drug mafia appears not only in the form of towers, which have transformed the once gloomy appearance of Tirana. Construction continues along the Adriatic coast as well.
Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and former US envoy for the Balkans, Richard Grenell, are planning major investments in the area with Rama's blessing. Rama, Grenell and Trump are known and have respect for each other since the time when, under the supervision of the then representative of the EU for foreign policy, they worked on the plan to review the borders between Kosovo and Serbia.
Is Rama "selling" Albania's assets in exchange for political support?
Former senior FBI agent Charles McGonigal, who is now convicted, admitted he was paid in Albania to provide services in the interest of the government. He also admitted that he had several meetings with Edi Rama in the government building. The Prime Minister denies any guilt.
"McGonigal was paid by people close to Rama," says Sali Berisha, Albania's first freely elected president in 1992 and co-founder of the Democratic Party. He is standing on the eighth floor of a residential building in the center of Tirana, angry and emotionally charged.
Berisha is under house arrest. He is also accused of corruption, and the US has banned him from entering its territory. For more than 200 days, the former head of state has not been allowed to leave the apartment. From time to time it hosts a few visitors. A few minutes ago, Ilir Meta, also the former president, came out. Now Berisha is ready to vent.
"I remember Hoxha's dictatorship very well - even then it wasn't as centralized as it is now under Rama," says Berisha, almost eighty, wearing a white shirt, green-and-yellow tie and silver cufflinks. "Albania is a kind of dictatorship, the first and only narco-state in Europe."
Berisha takes out his tablet and shows data that, according to him, prove that Edi Rama's brother, Olsi, is also involved in drug trafficking. Olsi Rama has denied these accusations. But Berisha insists on his version, saying that the West is blind to the true reality in Albania: "You are walking with closed eyes towards a catastrophe."
From Berisha's balcony on the eighth floor, people walking on Mustafa-Matohiti street in Tirana look very small. Every evening at eight o'clock, his supporters come out to support their "hero" under house arrest. Berisha comes out, speaks briefly against Rama's "narco-dictatorship" and then disappears again. After a few minutes it's all over, until next evening.
Edi Rama will survive this too.
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