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The clash with Becchetti continues to cost Albanians, the lawyers' bill is revealed

Politiko 2026-07-22 14:45:47

The clash with Becchetti continues to cost Albanians, the lawyers' bill is

The bill for the personal feud between Prime Minister Edi Rama and Italian businessman Francesco Becchetti is not over and is only getting worse. The Ministry of Finance revealed that the bill for the lawyers used by the Albanian state in the conflict with Becchetti has reached a shocking figure of 10.26 million euros.

According to Finance documents, so far the state budget has paid a full 6 million euros to the law firms that have represented Albania in the arbitration proceedings for this conflict, while another 4.2 million euros remain to be paid as liabilities.

This is only the money that citizens have paid for the lawyers who defended the government in the conflict with Becchetti and does not include the 110 million euro penalty that the Court of Arbitration issued against Albania for this matter.

Although the government has attempted several times to overturn the sentence in appeals and other courts beyond arbitration, it has so far always failed.

The most recent case was last month in France, where the Albanian government attempted to annul the conviction at the Paris Court of Appeal, but the Court rejected the request on the grounds that it has no legal power to overturn an arbitration award.

Meanwhile, the Italian businessman has been blocking the revenues that Albania benefits from airspace for years. According to data from Albcontrol, the state-owned company that manages Albania's airspace, by the end of 2024, the amount of these revenues blocked in Brussels is 13.7 billion lek or about 145 million euros.

Information on this matter remains confidential and it is not known for sure whether Becchetti has finally confiscated this money. Some foreign media have reported that the Italian businessman's bailiffs have taken the money, but the government denies this, admitting only that it is blocked in the account.

Despite this, Albanian citizens have paid over 70 million euros from their taxes to save Albcontrol from bankruptcy, money which was initially given as a loan by the government, but was later transferred as a special capital transfer from the investment fund.  /Kapitali.al

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