Was declared non-grata by Great Britain, Berisha open letter to the British ambassador

He calls the decision absurd and tendentious.

According to him, he has been accused by Great Britain of favoring the businessman Damir Fazlliç, a British citizen, who according to him is not convicted either in Tirana or in London.

Berisha’s complete letter

Open letter to the Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Tirana, Sir Alastair King-Smith.

Your Excellency!

Yesterday, the embassy of the United Kingdom in Tirana, which you lead, reacted to my statement about being declared non grata by the authorities of your country. In the absence of facts, instead of public apology, this reaction defends the vulgar slander of the letter on behalf of the interior secretary in which I am accused of corruption, that is, the use of power to enrich myself and my circle, for which you have not behaved and you will never be able to bring a single proof and fact, for the simple reason that they do not exist.

The only concrete thing that is mentioned in that letter about corruption is the British citizen Damir Fazlic, my former electoral adviser in the BGR team in the 2005 elections, whom, according to the letter, I have enriched and protected when incriminating evidence against him comes out.
In fact, 14 years ago, the Albanian prosecutor’s office investigated the entrepreneur in question for a long time, drawing the conclusion that they had not been able to prove any of the violations alleged against him. Let me emphasize that the whole story is related to the bringing of private capital to Fazlic for direct investment, and not in connection with tenders or public contracts. Furthermore, during the 9 years since I left the government, if there had been a violation, the prosecution had the opportunity to investigate again, but such a thing was never done, due to the simple fact that the first investigation, although full and thorough, did not find anything illegal.

Therefore, I would like to ask you, is Mr. Fazlic, and if not, how can jurisprudence and exemplary British statism transfer the burden of a guilt of peace from a subject of Her Majesty to a subject of a sovereign jurisdiction like that of Albania?

If Fazlic is free from the burden of guilt in your country, how can the guilt of cooperating with him be used in another legal and institutional domain?!

Absurd, to say the least!

If Your Excellency has incriminating evidence for your citizen, the law obliges you to submit it to Albanian or English justice and not to make public defamation without bringing any arguments.

I find it tendentious and absurd to use for accusations against me the name of a British citizen who has never been convicted in my country, and to my knowledge, nor in your country, and who has never benefited a cent from the government mine, and moreover, after my departure from power, he continued to make important investments in Albania.

In this case, you note that the use, to accuse me of corruption, of the name of a British citizen who has never been convicted in my country and to my knowledge, nor in your country, constitutes an insult to every Albanian, every Briton, every European, every American and every citizen of the world who believes in the presumption of innocence, this principle sanctioned by the Magna Carta, and after it, in all other international human rights documents but that you deny a citizen of your country with the purpose of slandering another person.

This constitutes a serious scandal and a truly corrupt act whose ultimate goal is to prolong the days of the most corrupt and incriminated government in Europe. On this occasion, I want to assure you and the government of Her Majesty, for whom I have real respect, that with all my modest possibilities, I will not stop fighting to convince Albanians that corruption, organized crime and sales of voting are enemies of freedom, democracy, dignity and their future.

Your Excellency, I am not stopping to comment on your political accusation about my ties to crime without bringing any facts because your silence about the blackest records of the narco-government that is bringing Albania down more and faster than a war. But I inform you that you are the first official in the world to say such a thing and that such accusations have never been articulated even by my opponents, whose connections with organized crime I have denounced and continue to denounce. I denounce them every day.

I close this letter with my prayer and request for Your Excellency, Ambassador King-Smith and the UK government, that any evidence, fact or document that you have or that you can obtain from anyone in the world, be presented to the Albanian or British courts.

With consideration,
Sali Berisha

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