Declared <x0non grata”, Berisha challenges Great Britain: Any Tests and Facts Come to Court

The other day, at the conference with journalists, Sali Berisha announced that it has been declared “non grata” and from Great Britain as well. At that, he predicted that he would continue the legal battle.

Today, the former prime minister has addressed an open letter to United Kingdom Ambassador in Tirana Sir Alastair King-Smith.

Berisha expresses the conviction that there is no evidence against him and there will be no evidence of the simple fact that they do not exist.

Berisha: Your Honor! Yesterday, the U.K. embassy in Tiranne that you led reacted to my statement announcing no grant from your country's authorities. Instead of a lack of evidence, instead of a public sense of response, this response protects gross paper slanders in the name of the secretary of the interior, in which I am accused of corruption means the use of power for my wealth and my circle that you haven't brought and will never be able to bring any evidence and fact only for the simple reason they don't exist.

Berisha continues and says that against his former British adviser, Damir Fazlic, who mentioned on paper, after investigations by the Albanian Prosecutor has not been proven any of the alleged violations.

Berisha: The only concrete thing mentioned in that letter to corruption is British national Damir Fazlic, my former election adviser to the BGR team in the 2005 elections, which, according to paper, I have enriched and defended when incriminating evidence came out to him. In fact, 14 years ago, the Albanian prosecution investigated the entrepreneur for a long time, concluding that he had not been able to prove any of his alleged violations. Let me stress that the whole story relates to the conduct of Fazlic's private capital for direct investment, not for tenders or public contracts. Moreover, in the nine years since I left the government, if there were any violations, the prosecution had been able to investigate again, but never has this been done for the simple fact that the first investigation, though full and deepening, found anything illegal.

The letter follows with some open questions to Sir Alastair King-Smith.

Berisha: So, I'd like to ask you, is Mr. President convicted in your country? Fazlic, and if not, how can the individual British jurisdiction and ethnicity transfer the barrier of peace from a subject of Her Majesty to a subject of 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 Honor has incriminating evidence for your citizen, the law will force you to send them before Albanian or English justice and not to make public slander without bringing any arguments. I find it biased and absurd to use it on charges against me of the name of a British citizen who has never been convicted in my country, and in my own knowledge, nor in your country, and who has never even earned a cent from my government, and furthermore, after my departure from power has continued to make significant investments in Albania.

Berisha calls the use of a name insulting, the fugitive has not been convicted before either in Albania or Britain, and there is no evidence against him. He stresses that it constitutes a serious scandal and a literal act of corruption aimed at extending the most corrupt government's days in Europe, referring to the Rama government.

Berisha: In this case, you point out that using me to accuse the corruption of the name of a British citizen who has never been convicted in my country and in my country, nor in your country, of making an insult to every Albanian, every British, every European, every American and every citizen of the world who believes in the promise of innocence, this principle sanctioneded by Carta Magna, and after that, in all other international human rights documents, but that you deny a citizen of the country with the intent of slandering another person. This is a very heavy scandal and a very corrupt act that has a final goal of extending the most corrupt and incriminating days of Europe.

Berisha warns that he will not stop fighting to prove his innocence.

Berisha: In this case, I want to assure you and the government of Her Majesty that I really respect, that with all my humble opportunities, I will not stop fighting to convince Albanians that corruption, organised crime and the sale of votes are enemies of freedom, democracy, dignity and their future.

In the end, the former prime minister asks Great Britain to present any possible evidence against him to the tribunal.

Berisha: Your Honor, I'm not stopping by commenting on your political accusation about my connection to the crime without bringing any evidence, since your silence for the blackest record of the narco government that I'm opening Albania more and faster than a war. But I suggest you're the first official in the world to say that and that such charges have never been diagnosed by my opponents, whose links to organized crime I have denounced and continues to denounce every day.

I close this letter with my prayer and request for your excellence, Ambassador King-Smith and UK government, that every evidence, fact or document you possess or that you can provide from anyone in the world, you present to the Albanian or British courts.

With consideration,

Sali Berisha.