Fevziu to arrest Saudi prince: He came by yacht to see Rama

Journalist Blendi Fevziu has decided to clarify through an analysis the arrest of Prince Waled Bin Talali in Saudi Arabia and the main one, what links this character to Albania.

According to Fevziu, this character had a meeting with Prime Minister Rama just recently.

In August 2017, Waled Bin Talali appeared in Durres on two giant yachts. The first, his personal yacht, built for Adnan Kashagi and then owned by Donald Trump and again his second yacht of association. No news was made public, but some sources confessed that he had been at lunch with Prime Minister Rama,” writes Fevziu.

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What links the arrested Saudi billionaire to Albania?

From Blendy Fevziu

Waled Bin Talal Al Saudi, one of the world's richest people and at the same time one of the world's most media rich people was arrested yesterday in Saudi Arabia. His arrest is part of an anti-corruption campaign undertaken by the Saudi Crown prince, a 32-year-old popular in the country named Muhamed Bin Salman. An additional 11 princes of the royal family, four ministers and 12 former ministers have also been arrested. There is no doubt that the most famous among them is Prince Walded Bin Talal Al Saudi, the richest man in Saudi Arabia and one of the 100 most important people in the world, according to TIME magazine.

Waled Bin Talali is a member of Saudi Arabia's royal family, largely enriched by his talent and without any inherited wealth. It simultaneously has Arab and Lebanese citizenship. His father, Prince Talal, was the son of Ibn Saudi, the king and founder of modern Saudi Arabia and the minister of finance in the years of the '60s. Then he fought with his family members in the courtyard and was forced to flee. My mother was the daughter of Riyad Al Sohl, the first prime minister of independent Lebanon.

After US schooling in the mid-70s, he returned to Saudi Arabia, where 20 thousand borrowed dollars and very good family ties established a construction business. In the mid - 1980 ' s, he made major international investments and in 1988 Forbes listed him as a billionaire. Currently, he is an important shareholder in Apple, Titter, City Bank, Four Seasons Hotel and in another 147 internationally influential companies.

A man in love with publicity, he bought not only some of the most important hotels in London, Paris and New York, but in all important political events of the post 2000s seems to be present. It is also known as the world's most expensive private plane, an A380 costing $550m, and a fleet of 5 other private aircraft of all sizes, including a Boeing 747. He owns the world's largest private (no royal) residence, in Riyadh, a giant yacht of nearly 87 meters, which he sold and bought twice Donald Trump and a biography written by one of the world's largest journalists, the BBC's Riz Khan, CNN and Al Jazeera.

But what does Wade Bin Talal connect to Albania? The media reported today that he has been in Durres this summer and has served with Prime Minister Rama. True but amazing news did not become public at the time. In fact, his ties with Albania are earlier.

In October 2002, two international giants landed at Rinas Airport. The first was a Boeing 474 stamped with the Kingdom Holding and the second a 330 Airbus. In the first, Waled Bin Talali travelled, while his second staff was. Prince Saudi came to Albania for the first time, and the reason for the visit seemed more like cortezi. But he testified there was a lot of information about Albania.

Deputy Foreign Minister Hajdaraga and journalists who had come out to meet him were told that Albania was famous because it had the largest number of olive trees per capita and added laughing that he was getting into the same car his father had boarded almost 15 years ago. His statement and subsequent conversation revealed that his father, Prince Talali, had visited Albania in the late 1980s, had met Ramiz Alina and had been waiting with the same Mercedes Benz, S 300, of the delegation park with which his son was already expected.

Waled stayed in Albania 48 hours. He met with President Moisiu, Prime Minister Nano and Z. Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Meta. The talks are called being very formal because no news about them was made public. What was learned was that the investments the Albanian government cared about were irrelevant to him, but as a sign of courtesy asked within the possibility of turning the Dati Hotel into a Four Seasons in Tirana. But the formula was complicated because it required investment being made by the Albanian government.

It is not known why this internationally banned man preserved his reports with Albania, as well as his father. Many officials visiting Riyadh were received, including Albanian Foreign Minister Basha, in February 2008.

In August 2017, Waled Bin Talali appeared in Durres on two giant yachts. The first, his personal yacht, built for Adnan Kashagi and then owned by Donald Trump and again his second yacht of association. No news was made public, but some sources confessed that he had been at lunch with Prime Minister Rama.

Perhaps lunch was just a corthesia lunch because international media reported that the Prince was on a tour of the Adriatic, Ion and Aegean, in an attempt to extend his hotel business. Those same days it was announced that he had closed a contract for the construction of a Four Seasons Hotel in Athens, at the renowned Astir Palace complex and another in Croatia, without specifying the country. He had also had meetings with important politicians in Montenegro.

The visit had no media coverage, and the Prince left hours later in the South. It is no wonder that he has talked about the very extent of his tourist structure in Albania, but that remains to be seen.

Waled Bin Talali is under arrest today, in a gesture that includes the fight against corruption as much as the one for power within the Saudi royal family. His arrest is expected not only to take the maximum of international attention, but also to strongly transform the entire area dominated by problems between Qatar and Saudi Arabia./ Opinion. al