Arben Ahmetaj has made strong accusations against Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku.
During the interview on ‘Çim Peka LIVE’, Ahmetaj accuses Balluku of being a ‘plunderer’ and as the person who has caused more damage to Albania’s budget than the devastating earthquake of 2019.
Arben Ahmetaj: I did not want to become prime minister, they barely kept me in the SP
Peka: Belinda Balluku is the biggest plunderer…so that the public has it clear.
Ahmetaj: Excuse me, because I will also refer to numbers, but since the time of Ismail Qemali, but not the virtual one that the head of the organization puts out, the real one, Belinda Balluku is the biggest plunderer of the state budget. Trust me, in my calculations, taking direct references from businesses today, and you know very well that I have become an information nugget, today, the damage caused by Belinda Balluku to the budget is twice as great as the 2019 earthquake. Her own damage, I’m not talking about the damage of all the other members, the damage of the looter herself, is twice as great as the 2019 earthquake. She continues to hold a record in the history of Albania, she has increased the level of tenders by 11 billion, then I will also show you the successes, because she comes to parliament and says we have built schools, we have built kindergartens… With the Llogara tunnel alone, which I will say, she has swallowed the equivalent of two incinerators in Fier and Elbasan and the equivalent of 15 large schools, the biggest looter has swallowed them, but we will return to the tunnel. I will also ask some questions that lead us in the direction of the truth to help SPAK.
Peka: Look Mr. Ahmetaj, after the second interview the interest has been extraordinary and the comments have been endless. Skeptics, or those who expect you to take revenge and overthrow Edi Rama, say you did not publish the documents. I see that you have come with documents. Albanians want to ask you today why Edi Rama is the head of the organization and Belinda Balluku is the biggest looter???
Ahmetaj: Let’s go back to the phenomenon, what has happened to that structure mainly in the last 7 years, but especially in the last 4 years. When I was dismissed, the reason communicated to my colleagues there was that I had broken the unity of the party. I have said it once again that I have no ambition to become secretary general, nor prime minister, and the whole party knows this, nor mayor, nor minister again. All of Albania knows now, above all the head of the organization and my friends that I asked to leave. What happened today with the pillars of the state is practically a reflection of an attempt that I, at least personally, naively, have not been able to see since day 1, of returning all the structures of the state to the function of one man, the head of the organization. And when people, beyond my fate, the fate of Albania certainly prevails, for my family my fate prevails, for me the fate of Albania, the fate of my children and the fate of my family prevails. There is no discussion. But the fate of Albania is also connected to my fate and the fate of my family. And today Albania is in the hands of crime. We have had several conversations with former American ambassadors to Albania, the honorable Mrs. Yuri Kim, and I always asked who…
Peka: Do you believe this honorable person when you say it, or…?
Ahmetaj: Of course…who will Albania belong to? Today I will answer Yuri Kim, today Albania has fallen into the hands of crime. Take the Socialist Party, there are many socialists, but there is no party. It is just an organization created only to serve one person. There are many socialists. Tell me what connection does the Socialist Party have today with the government that is practically the former municipality 1 and municipality 2? There is no connection. Today, practically, political coordinators have been replaced with crime coordinators. Refer to SKY’s Encro Chat, unfortunately due to those files that came to Belgium and France and were not initiated by SPAK and I will emphasize, four electoral districts have fallen, unfortunately for us who have spent days, nights, years working very happily for the Socialist Party. Four, Shkodra has fallen, Durrës has fallen, Elbasan has fallen, Tirana has fallen. But why is this the Socialist Party? What does the Socialist Party have to do with it?
Peka: That is it. Only you have seen, this is the Socialist Party.
Ahmetaj: Why did the Socialist Party vote for Ergys Agasi to lead Albania???
Peka: That is, why didn’t you know??
Ahmetaj: No, I didn’t know. When I went to the elections, I didn’t know that this would happen. What does Gys Agasi want in the Emirates with the Prime Minister and in DAVOS, what does he represent?
Peka: Is he also in DAVOS?
Ahmetaj: What does he represent? Let me return to the Albanian citizens. Socialists, my friends, somewhere you have loved me, somewhere you have criticized me, somewhere you have hated me, human emotions. Did you vote for Gys Agasi? For Pirro Vëngu? There is nothing to Pirro Vëngu as a creature, there is no connection, the system of political patronage that every party should do, in that country has turned into the system of patronage of bread. They threaten employees of the administration, in a very interesting case, very interesting, is, a couple of my friends in Italy who came to replace us said, threatened us, they threatened my sister, said, that my sister and brother-in-law should come to Milan to meet with the head of the organization. This is not the Socialist Party. Have you seen them eating each other’s heads? I’m no longer here. I’m saying it today, Encro Chat has confirmed the collapse of the four electoral districts of the Socialist Party. And they go and deal with Bardh Spahina, because I knew his father when I worked at the IMF and at the Democratic Republican Institute. I knew his father, an honorable man, sorry about that. These people deal with Bardh Spahina, these people come out and talk about… an electoral crime, have these people carried out an electoral crime to the end? They have dealt with the mayor of Rrogozhina… an electoral crime, SPAK, are we going to the elections, should X – Y and Z have remembered?
Is it going? I spoke about the party. You have socialists today, believe me, they communicate with me, the socialists, I am talking about the parliamentary group, a part that is let’s say old, in the sense of experience, old in experience, held by the throat, someone pressured, someone influenced, someone free is revolting, a part of them can’t wait for him to fall. It is a feeling that dominates. I spoke about the Socialist Party. Today if you look at it from the party’s side, if you look at the government, today the government is the 5D format of the Tirana municipality, if it is not 5D, it is 5B. The biggest looter in the history of Albania of the state budget, has appointed 5 ministers, two in collaboration with the exponents, 5 ministers to complete the chain of looting.
What is Pirro Vëngu dealing with? He deals with the properties of the army. Someone within the Ministry of Defense told me that this man is only coming because he is eager to hand over the properties. You have seen the narrative, there has been talk about Porto Palermo, it is that tourist masturbation that Quest said, in DAVOS, I hope the Albanians have seen it. So, honorable Mr. Peka, the 5B, the Minister of Finance was taken from the structures of the former Ministry of Infrastructure, okay, the Minister of Interior is a separate story, a separate chapter that, ‘for the record’. The head of the organization, once, when he worked as director of tax investigation, dismissed him from his job for corruption.
