Berisha declared that SPAK leader Altin Dumani is ending his mandate "with a black face", describing the criminal case against him as a story of fraud and forgery "to the sky".
During his speech, Berisha said that there is complete evidence of Dumani's hidden assets, while emphasizing that with the state salary it is impossible to obtain several apartments without other financial sources.
Berisha rejected the accusations related to family favoritism, describing them as fabricated and contradictory, while adding that their narrative has changed several times because the facts did not support them.
Berisha also brought to attention the issue of changing the destination of properties, stating that the responsibility for these decisions belongs to Prime Minister Edi Rama and not to him.
Full statement:
Dumani closes it with a black face.
With hidden assets.
I have full proof of this.
I tell you, I am a former president and former prime minister, and I give full guarantee to every Albanian, that no salaried employee of this state, including the president and the prime minister, can afford 4 apartments with the state salary.
He declares that I am renting from his father-in-law, do you understand now what a fraud this is?
If he said that his father-in-law gave his daughter an apartment as a gift, I would absolutely accept it, that a father gives his daughter an apartment as a gift, but this one is a shareholder there and says that it is rented from his father-in-law.
Where did this one find the other three apartments?
What man can have three apartments with the state salary?
Let me tell you, with the state salary I managed to buy a total of 40 square meters of construction. I could buy more, but I had to take out a loan.
Without credit, they cannot be bought...
The fact that there is an official accusation? For what accusation?
I have not dealt with it here, but it is a story of fraud and forgery to the sky.
Do you know what they said at the beginning?
He made decisions to favor the groom.
Do you know what they are saying now?
No, there are no decisions, but he benefited from the decisions.
Do you understand or not?
After they deceived the public that the decision to use securities was made with the intention of benefiting the groom, and when it turned out he had benefited a total of 64 euros, because he had paid it all, then they remained and now they say that he benefited 64 euros.
What else did they say?
He changed the destination.
Edi Rama changed the destination, but they do not dare to call Edi Rama.
The person who changed the destination of the buildings and the land is precisely Edi Rama, because together with his brother they intended to build a town of their own there.
If Edi Rama has signed dozens of nominal decisions, of which 4 only for Karlo Bolino to take the land donated by the owners for the neighborhood gymnasium, he has signed 38 thousand square meters for his brother in Rrapi i Treshit, he has signed millions of square meters for his clans, Sali Berisha has only one nominal signature in his entire career, this signature is related to an apartment that was given as a gift to the late writer, Ismail Kadare.
And it was made because the state took his house in Gjirokastra to turn it into a museum.
These fraudsters, fierce enemies of pluralism, vetted Sali Berisha and for which I am grateful.
I am the only politician with a full vetting by my enemies.
They found out that my savings and my wealth was an apartment 40 meters larger than the one during the dictatorship and 100 thousand euros for 54 years of work. Together with my wife.
They then accused my daughter of taking a week's paid vacation as corruption.
Have you ever heard in the history of the world that such a thing can be considered corruption?
They accused a medical bill paid by my daughter for me and her mother of corruption.
They accused the payment that my daughter and son-in-law made for 3 children in need, because they are treated at the autism center run by my wife, who in 20 years has not received a penny there, she paid voluntarily.
So, these are the accusations that you are making.
And these were formulated by the former State Security executioner, Arben Kraja, with Altin Troplini and Enkelejda Fetahu, the sister friend of Taulant Balla and that judge Fetahu.
So, this mercenary attacked pluralism in the election year so that his party could win.
But this is an ongoing battle.
I do not defend anything other than political pluralism.