2024-06-17 17:17:35
Former Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha, who’s underneath home arrest, revealed a doc on Friday that exposed {that a} prime official from the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) was an exterior adviser to present Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in 2023, Romanian TV reported. Antena 3″ and the Albanian media “CNA” and “Capitals”.
In response to the doc revealed by Berisha, the previous first deputy director of the Romanian intelligence, Florian Koldia, was paid 7,000 euros monthly for consulting on safety points. The doc was signed by the Secretary Basic of the Council of Ministers of Albania, Angel Agachi.
Berisha, who’s the chief of the most important Albanian opposition power – the Democratic Occasion of Albania, claims that Florian Koldja and folks from his entourage have connections with the Mexican drug cartel “Sinaloa”.
The Sinaloa drug cartel is led by infamous Mexican drug trafficker Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, who was sentenced to life in jail by US courts in 2019 and is presently in a high-security jail.
Berisha accused Rama of getting “suspicious ties” to Koldia, whom he referred to as the “Romanian McGonigal,” referring to the investigation into Albanian Prime Minister Rama’s ties to former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence agent Charles McGonigal, who has been indicted in america.
McGonigal is accused of accepting a bribe from the federal government of Edi Rama to foyer in opposition to the opposition in Albania, “Antenna 3” recollects.
In March 2023, Rama denied bribing or favoring McGonigal and mentioned the opposition needed to “use a political trial within the US that has nothing to do with Albania, the federal government” or him personally.
Berisha additionally repeated the Romanian media’s accusations that Koldia has ties to Mexican mafia clans, notes Romanian tv. “In the present day the press in Romania is about Edi Rama and Sinaloa. Will we proceed to simply accept this prime minister,” Berisha requested from the window of his residence to a bunch of supporters.
Florian Koldia and one other former head of the Romanian Intelligence Service, Dumitru Dumbrava, have been underneath investigation for bribery because the finish of Might this 12 months.
In response to the Romanian company Agerpress, cited by the Albanian media “CNA” and “Kapitali”, Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Cholaku has expressed concern that Koldia, after working within the Romanian intelligence service, labored as a advisor for a 3rd get together. The Prime Minister of Romania has promised authorized adjustments to forestall comparable conditions, stories BTA.