Former prime minister Sali Berisha has accused the British ambassador in Tirana, Alastair King-Smith, of being involved in lobbying for his declaration of non-grata by the United Kingdom.
Berisha said in "Opinion" that the ambassador presented Fation Daut as a bridge between him and criminal organizations. Dauti is a person deported from Britain. He is the person who broke the door to PD when the re-establishment commission went.
According to Berisha, this decision of the ambassador is scandalous. This, after the chairman of the Democratic Party said that he does not know Fation Daut at all and learned his name when he kicked the gate during the riots at the headquarters of the Democratic Party.
"There is nothing more shameful and scandalous than what the British ambassador has done. I know who my connection to organized crime is according to them.
A concrete case of connection with crime and criminal organizations is Fation Dauti, who went to the inter-party problem and knocked on a door. When I went and asked who this is, I was told that he is a DP sympathizer who lived in England and who comes from a persecuted family. There is nothing more corrupt than this act. This is the person Sali Berisha has violated the national security of the United Kingdom.
Sali Berisha has mounted secret operations in cooperation with the British government to increase the security of the United Kingdom.
This is the British ambassador's criminal organization. Britain has a lot more transparency. What happened? Here came a reporter from the "Times" to argue the slander about my connection with a criminal organization headed by Fation Dauti. The reporter asked, and there I learned many things about Fation Daut.
I found out that he has been expelled from the UK, but without any charges. This has been considered important in the network there, but no charges have been filed. The journalist says that I met officials in the DP and learned that he has no function there. The journalist tells the truth. Then he said that he sued the United Kingdom in Strasbourg and to remove his deportation from the United Kingdom" , said Berisha.
"The accusation says that you enriched Fazlić. Meanwhile, Fazlliçi has received tens of millions of euros from Edi Rama through tenders. He did not participate during my government.
It is a corrupt act, to take a person who has not had any charges, who was investigated by Ina Rama to incriminate him, to use him to say that I enriched this, is a very big slander.
The British ambassador has maintained a position of strong support for Lulzim Basha. If you really accept Fation Dautin for testimony. What the British ambassador has done is a corrupt act supported by Edi Rama, Erion Veliaj, Lulzim Basha ," said Berisha.