After the removal of the "non-women's ban", Berisha speaks about the American media: Rama and Soros lobbied against me

The State Department has lifted sanctions against one of George Soros' most vocal opponents in Eastern Europe.

Sali Berisha, the leader of Albania's opposition party, confirmed to the Daily Signal on Friday that the State Department lifted sanctions against him on Thursday. The State Department had sanctioned Berisha, a former president and prime minister who led the Balkan country after the fall of communism in the 1990s, for "corrupt acts," such as misusing public funds to enrich relatives. Berisha denied the allegations,  The Daily Signal reports. 

"As of yesterday, following a thorough review of my case by the State Department, I and my family members are no longer prohibited from traveling to the United States of America ," the leader of the Democratic Party of Albania told the Daily Signal. "Thus, an unjust decision taken by the previous US administration against me and my family has been corrected."

Berisha, an outspoken opponent of Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros and his son Alex, suggested that Soros played a role in the sanctions against him. George Soros had worked with Edi Rama, Albania’s prime minister. Alex Soros, who now runs his father’s Open Society Foundations, has met frequently with Rama.

" I would like to thank President Trump's administration and Secretary [of State Marco] Rubio for correcting this unjust decision, which was entirely based on the corrupt lobbying of Edi Rama and his mentor, George Soros."

The Open Society Foundations did not respond to The Daily Signal's request for comment on whether George or Alex Soros played a role in Berisha's sanctions.

The State Department confirmed that it issued exemptions for certain determinations under section 7031(c) of the Financial Management and Budget Transparency Act from the previous administration.

When then-Representative... Lee Zeldin, a Republican from New York, asked Blinken for evidence of Berisha's alleged corruption, the State Department thwarted him, Zeldin told the Washington Free Beacon in December 2021.

Soros' Influence
Alex Soros has posted many photos of himself with Albania's Socialist Party Prime Minister, Edi Rama, often calling the foreign leader his "brother." The Open Society Foundations have founded and funded so many nongovernmental organizations in the country that critics say they dominate civil society, and American tax dollars channeled through the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development match Open Society Funding.

Critics like Berisha say that Open Society promotes "anti-family" policies in Albania and worked to strengthen Rama's power.

George Soros's foundation—which would become OSF—spent more than $57 million building 275 schools and kindergartens across the country in the early 1990s, and OSF advertised that almost 70% of the population "has benefited from these schools."

Last year, Albanian journalist Sami Neza said that Soros has so dominated the NGO space that no civil society group can exist outside his influence. He said he could count on one hand the number of staff in Albanian NGOs with no Soros connections. Neza serves as executive director of the Center for Transparency and Freedom of Information, which received a grant from the Charles Koch Institute in 2020.

The Open Society Foundations allocated $600,000 to support the judicial system reorganization process, according to the 2021 fact sheet.