Close to 2m euros in Martin Berisha's business, where GEN-I money from Belgrade was poured out

<x0MM Consulting” is the business in Montenegro that until less than two weeks ago kept hidden the registered incumbent Martin Berisha, Kosovo's ambassador to Croatia.

In Montenegro, a professor of political science and international relations registered the business for consultations on December 12, 2016. And from the start it turns out there's been a surprising access to this company's accounts.

In just 19 days of existence of this business in 2016, “MB Consulting” turns out that there were nearly 100 thousand euros in its accounts, shows the findings of the Gazeta Online Reporter.net research through the public platform that provides the data for the annual revenues of businesses in Montenegro that are declared by companies registered in this state's Tax Administration.

The declared data shows Martin Berisha's business in Montenegro, é “M B Consalting”, with only the Kosovo ambassador registered as the owner and only one official declared in it in 2016, although it was registered 19 days before its completion, it had a total of 99,793,700,000 annual income.

Peaceful as December 2016 has turned out to have been for Berisha's business for the entire following year. “MB Consulting” in 2017 had 900 thousand and 666 annual Euros, reports Gazeta Online Reporter.net's findings. Even in this period, business had only one official declared it, and it proved to be the CEO of the company and owner of Martin Berisha.

In 2017, Martin Berishaaj, although not much of a public figure as an intellectual, had been appointed by then Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj a member of the government Commission for assessing the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro.

A few months later, in May 2018 “parachutist” Berishaaj had ended up at the helm of the Vetevendosje Movement, whose power after nearly four years rewarded him with the duty of Kosovo's ambassador to Croatia, along with a declared friendship not rarely as close to the main LVV figures, Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Chief Parliamentary Glauk Konjufca.

The withdrawal of money that led to doubts about “money laundering”
From close to 1 million in the preceding year, in 2018 the annual incomes of the bajagi in Montenegro fell by many. However, the figures are again high for a business with only 1 declared employees, all the time.

In 2018, the 100% registered business owned by Martin Berisha, in the Montenegrin state declared 368,738,000 euros in annual revenues. A year later, “M B Consulting” turns out there was a slight increase in revenues, going to 382,547.00 Euro-year revenues in the year 2019, show the findings of Online Reporter.net Journal's research. They again fell in the following year, that 2020, at 233,664,000 a year in turn. This is the last year this business has declared an annual Euro investment. The documents of the financial mirrors declared in Montenegro's Tax Administration for 2021 show that Berisha has not declared at all going in this year, the period when the chairman of the Institute for Albanian Studies in Slovenia returned to Kosovo for political engagement and was later rewarded with diplomatic post.

Income total, from December 2016 when it was founded, until the end of 2020, declared by “MB Consulting” in Montenegro's Tax Administration results in nearly 2 million Euros exactly 1 million and 985 thousand and 408 Euros, the documents provided during Online Reporter.net's research.

Slovenian television “Planet TV”, days ago, published some evidence claiming that some 600 thousand euros of Berisha's business accounts on Montenegro during the 2019/2020 period are from the philial in Belgrade of GEN-I-I a Slovenian power trading network extended across the region.

Although it appeared in Slovenia as an electoral impact, three days before holding the April 24th elections there, the Slovenian media's discovery also proved extremely important for Kosovo with a state ambassador involved in suspicion of money laundering, with business hiding in Montenegro, with money poured out in its accounts by a Slovenian company.

Slovenian television reported that over half a million euros in cash were delivered from Montenegro to Slovenia, while the role of the money mule [transporters] allegedly carried out by Kosovo Ambassador to Croatia Martin Berisha via “M B Consulting”.

This television has witnessed with documents the withdrawal of about 600 thousand euros, but not the rest of the claim that they were given to Robert Golobi, former director of GEN, and now the politician who won the last elections in Slovenia. He, like Berisha, has denied the accusations and reports of Slovenian television.

Documents published by TV Planet testify to the withdrawal of cash from UK Consulting in 2019 and 2020
But what this research by Online Reporter.net testifies to is that current Kosovo Ambassador to Croatia Martin Berishaj, in the bank account of his registered company in Montenegro, has accepted close to 2m euros between 2016 and 2020. While witnessing with documents, according to Slovenian television, it is that Berishaaj during 2019 and 2020 has attracted about 600 thousand euros from the <x0 bank account. M B Consulting”. Here, according to Planet TV, all access to <x2 accounts > M B Consulting” are from the subsidiary to Serbia's GEN.

Martin Berishaj, former head of the first Albanian party in Slovenia “Democratic Union of Kosovo”, during this period of time was in the exercise of office as a member of the Headship of the Vetevendosje Movement, though living and continuing in Slovenia, where he even legalised a university in Ljubljana.

Ambassador Berishaaj does not reveal the origin of 2 million euros in his business
Since the Slovenian media has reported on allegations against him, despite having received great attention in Kosovo, Martin Berishaaj has spoken only once, saying that “Speculations don't pass!

According to the Kosovo ambassador's response in Croatia, everything Slovenian television has broadcast and later the media in Kosovo is for pre-election campaigns in Slovenia, since on the day he made the response had not yet developed.

He highlighted the fact that already Slovenia's election winner, Robert Golob, in an election debate has denied money laundering reports allegedly included in Berisha. As noted, the same has been done by Slovenian Prime Minister to go Janez Jansha, who is also known for his dealings with the Kosovo diplomat.

From today, my indictment against the portal opens the way for the final word court. It's not fair to be just sure of justice and truth. We also have to defend justice and truth. Otherwise, slander becomes normal”, Berisha wrote on Facebook, among other things, April 22, 2022.

But, contacted on Friday by Reporter Online.net, about recent findings in newspaper research, Ambassador Berisha has chosen to remain silent, failing to answer questions. These are only e-mailed to him by means of a message in Viber, which he also ignored.

Among the questions ignored by Martin Berisha has been the interest of Gazeta Online Reporter.net if the rest of the money poured out in his business accounts is from the Belgrade subsidiary of GEN-I. But, despite the fact that the paper has been called in for transparency due to its current state and diplomatic function, he has not responded.

Berishaaj hid business in Montenegro, and not only that
Martin Berishaj in September 2021 had been appointed Kosovo's ambassador to Croatia. Just five months ago, Montenegrin-born Berisha, who has even completed elementary and high school, but for years displaced for life in Slovenia, had become a citizen of Kosovo, receiving citizenship by decree from President Vjosa Osmani.

As the law envisions, for Kosovo state officials, he had committed property statements at the Anti-Corruption Agency, January of this year.

All he had declared in the AKK were two residences, one worth 180 thousand Euros and another 50 thousand euros, worth. The first purchased in 2001, according to him, with joint family incomes and savings, and in 2006, also purchased with savings. He has also claimed that there is also a house worth 72 thousand Euros, inherited from parents, from which land was also inherited at 80 thousand Euros.

Berisha also declared a Mercedes car, according to him purchased with savings, in 2016, worth 15 thousand Euros and an Audi 8 declared owned by his wife, also on savings, in 2018, worth far more than his Mercedes, 42 thousand Euros.

In addition to the salaries Berisha has declared that he annually receives close to 400,000 euros for his service in Kosovo diplomacy and 24 thousand Euro-year salaries his wife receives in Ljubljana, he had declared that 15 thousand Euros are deposited in the bank in his accounts of 10 thousand in his wife's accounts.

And that's it. No business was mentioned there. Not in Kosovo, not Slovenia, not even Montenegro.

But except for “owner M B Consulting” in Montenegro, with a simple search at the ARBK, turns out Ambassador Berishaj figures co-production in two other businesses registered in Kosovo. In “L.C”, co-owner of Slovenian businessman Janez Banivuk, registered at the Agency for Registering Business in Kosovo in 2008 and co-owner at the “Zaslon Kosova” LLC, also registered as a business in Pristina.

And the possession of these undeclared businesses on AKK forms, Anti-Actory Agency Corruption has already begun procedures to verify Ambassador Martin Berisha's property.

With laws in effect in Kosovo, non-recognition or false declaration of property on the part of senior public officials constitutes criminal acts that sanction the Penal Code's provisions (points 437 Points 1 and 2), and it is punishable from 3 to 5 years in prison.

In contrast to the AKK, which has immediately announced that it will conduct its investigations and verifications, and despite that documents and evidence show a lot, Kosovo Ambassador to Croatia “verse” is trusting President Vjosa Osmani.

“We trust the ambassador of the Republic of Kosovo. All together, we await the justice body's decision”, Osmani had said in a statement, a day after the financial scandal broke out in Slovenia.

The “is lamenting how you claim a thing for an ambassador of the Republic of Kosovo who is not listed by any justice organ, but is written by a media that the ambassador has widely denied and would pursue legal ways”, it added.

Martin Berishaaj was born in Tuz in Montenegro, where he has even completed elementary and high school. He completed studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1984. In Ljubljana, he also received the Master and Doctor title. From 1989 and during the 1990s, Berisha has been actively involved in cultural life in Slovenia and the inclusion of Albanians in political life there.

Maybe a lot you may not know. Or others have forgotten, but Martin Berishaj, ahead of all other political commitments in Kosovo, was one of the PDK founders shortly after the war. But his commitment to the party of the <x0-wing war” had lasted very short and soon the streets had been divided.