Sali Berisha's son loses appeal to America, demanded $60m in damages

Shkelzen Berisha, son of former Prime Minister Sali Berisha, has lost in appealing an American court, facing the author and publishing house of the book “War Dogs”, including a cinematographic company who asked for $60m in damages.

Top Channel has secured the decision of Florida's appeals court through which the first-instance court ruling was handed down by a Florida court where Skelzen Berisha's lawyer's request that the author of War “”, Guy Lawson, had consumed slander with what he wrote about Berisha's role in the arms trade and Gerdec tragedy.

In a decision dated September 2, 2020, Judge Martin, Newsom, and Oʹscanlain says: Author Guy Lawson relied on finding facts in many previously published articles accusing Shkelzen Berisha as involved in the computer fraud AEY and the Albanian underworld. Lawson went further by interviewing other people who claimed the same for Mr. Berisha.

The American judges in the ruling say they have found no mistake in the Florida court ruling and point out: Berisha did not bring arguments based on which to conclude that the district court abused him by not giving him the time needed to bring evidence.

Both US judges in their unanimous ruling rejected Shkelzen Berisha's appeal confirming the Florida District Court ruling.

In 2015 Guy Lawson published the book entitled “Arms and the Dudes: How Three Stones from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunruners in History. (Chenes and weapons: Like three boys from Miami Beach became loud arms traffickers in American history.

Several years of bass based on this book by which Shkelzen Berisha is described as a shark-eyed boy, Hollywood made a movie.

With the appeals court ruling, Skelzen Berisha's attempt to discredit and reject what Guy Lawson wrote in the book received not a few but $60m in compensation form/ TCH.