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Ahmetaj for "Der Spiegel": Rama cannot use me as a scapegoat, turn Albania into a narco-state

Politiko 2024-09-14 09:17:29

Ahmetaj for "Der Spiegel": Rama cannot use me as a scapegoat, turn

Former Deputy Prime Minister Arben Ahmetaj has once again made it clear to Edi Rama that he cannot target him to turn him into a "scapegoat".

For the prestigious German magazine "Der Spiegel", Ahmetaj has referred to Rama as Kim Jong Un, the dictator of North Korea.

Currently in Lugano, Switzerland, where he is hoping for political asylum, he told the German magazine Ahmetaj that Rama has benefited from the justice reform financed by the international community.

"I am not prepared to play as a scapegoat. He benefited from US and EU funded justice reform. "Now he is using the justice system against his political opponents and against anyone who opposes his bid for power ," he said.

The former deputy prime minister suspects that the Rama system is being silently tolerated in the West: "I have no idea why the Europeans do not want to see what is happening in Albania. They have excellent secret services who know everything in detail, especially about money laundering and organized crime."

Ahmetaj confirms the investigators' findings that Albania turned into a narco-state fueled by drug trafficking during Rama's mandate.

"The flood of cannabis in the country from 2014 to 2017 was the hidden economic agenda of the prime minister. The increase in organized crime that it fueled has massively changed the Albanian economy and society. "Rama believes that he can still control the criminal environment, but he has been the one being controlled for a long time ," he says.

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