Sanctions / Basha: The Treasury Department showed how Rama won the election. Rakipi, Doshi and Dako the dummies of the election massacre

In a Facebook post, Basha writes that with the sanctions, the Treasury Department confirmed how Rama won the elections in 2017 and 2021, while calling Aqif Rakipi, Tom Doshi, Vangjush Dako, sanctioned by the US as the prime minister’s purse in the election massacre.

“Time gave us the right again! Aqif Rakipi, Tom Doshi, Vangjush Dako are the dummies with whom Edi Rama carried out the electoral massacre and alienated the will of the Albanians who demanded change.

The argument from the United States Treasury Department for sanctions against Aqif Rakip states:
“Numerous organized crime groups (GCOs) in Albania have offered money, gifts or promises of jobs or concessions in exchange for votes for their favorite political party.” This paragraph shows how Edi Rama “won” the elections in 2017 and 2021.

The crisis in which Albania finds itself today is a consequence of the destruction of democratic institutions and the electoral process, which yesterday was confirmed through sanctions by the United States Treasury Department. Although this should have been done by the Albanian law enforcement agencies, it is good news that our strategic partner USA is focused on the fight against corruption that is undermining democracy and destroying the well-being of Albanians.“, Writes Basha.

Recall that the day before, the US has imposed harsh economic sanctions on former Socialist MP Aqif Rakipi and businessman Ylli Ndroqi, for involvement in criminal activities.

In Rakipi’s case, the main question is about his two relatives, his brother’s brother and son, both members of the Assembly, both of the Socialist Party, Saimir Hasalla and Ornaldo Rakipi. Top Channel asked a senior US Treasury official about the issue as well.
The answer was that “the consequences are for the mentioned individuals, ie Rakipi in this case, but evidence is being collected for every other person because the message is: We do not want such individuals to have these positions in Albanian society,” said a senior official of the Department. of the Treasury.

Meanwhile, a senior US State Department official told Top Channel that the possibility is being considered that persons declared ‘non grata’, under section 7031, point c, be subject to the same economic sanctions as Rakipi and Ndroqi. . Meanwhile, a senior Treasury Department official told Top Channel that the decisions are signals of how seriously the United States takes corruption, as corruption is the main problem in the Balkans.

Following the announcement of the US Treasury Department decision, Aqif Rakipi’s son, Socialist MP Ornaldo Rakipi, spoke to the media for the first time as he entered Parliament, saying that his father was clean and that he was ready to resign as MP if criminal acts are proven.
Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Northern Macedonia Nikola Gruevski and former Director of the Security and Counterintelligence Department (UBK) Sasho Mijalkov and former Chief Prosecutor of the State Prosecutor’s Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina Gordana Tadic are on both lists, also ‘non women ‘by the State Department, also economically sanctioned by the Treasury Department.

Also sanctioned were Asim Sarajlic, a member of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s parliament, and Svetozar Marovic, a Montenegrin politician who served as the last head of the Serbia-Montenegro government from 2003 until Montenegro’s declaration of independence in 2006.

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