
Sali Berisha decides that all the property of the "Partizani" Club will be blown up, in order to give it to some people to build palaces there.
A normal privatization, in the logic of what the Albanians thought in 1990, is that the democratic state will give back to those industrialists, the owners whose property was taken by communism.
So let's take the most important consortia of the time before November 29, 1944, such as some power plants, cement factories, or even pasta factories that were used by communism and things like that. Neither returned you to the old owners.
The most significant evidence is the main hotel in Shkodër, "Rozafa" or former tourism, which today is owned by an important company that is also developing the construction of a tower there. But when the Rozafa Hotel was privatized, it was not given to the owners, but to some people that the government considered suitable to buy it since they have been persecuted. There were 40 people who had nothing to do with that property, which is the jewel of the city, and the real owners never had the right to have the opportunity to enter privatization. The case of Hotel Rozafa is well known because it became media, but the list is long.
Let's take Tirana. One of the most important assets of the Albanian capital is the former "Ali Këlmendi" Food Factory. which included a wide range of properties from a distillery to a meat plant. Bread or flour factory or other structures. No structures were given to the owners. Today that industrial asset is in a changed destination for most of it. As are many, many national industrial assets. So we are in a discussion that the Football club and the Partizani multi-sport club, there was no rush or priority given to the land owners. Although the owners of the land, if they exist, since according to the SPAK file, they do not exist for a significant part of the land, they could be included in the partnership to make this sports complex, also an economic set, but staying with the sports structure.
No, Sali Berisha decides that all the property of the "Partizani" Club will be blown up, in order to give it to some people to build palaces there. Why? What did this idea bring to the community at a time when all of Tirana was in a construction boom?
Only that his son-in-law; I am Arbër Malltezi, a descendant of a family that has claimed part of the property where the territory of two Partizani clubs, the football club and the multi-sports club, was. That had very functional structures and environments. The Begeja family, the heirs of a part was Jamarbëri, did not have a document according to the SPAK file that was the owner, but nevertheless a large part of the territory, about 2 thousand square meters, was not part of the claim of the owners' families.
And yet, Sali Berisha's government said: deal with it, blow up what is today and do what you want?
By what right? He just has the power. The SPAK file also has terrible scandals, where before the privatization of the Partizani Club, the government took away the funds from the best club in Albania and gave it to the municipality of Tropoja, where Sali Berisha sought to get consensus in his homeland since he was not popular.
This detail is of course small, but significant to show that Sali Berisha's family has treated the state, or its properties, as their own. And where he then built a complex of buildings, where of course SPAK has discovered that there is no other investor than Berisha's family.
Yet there are people on dinner panels who say there are no facts, no arguments. An analogy: Silvio Berlusconi was the greatest and most glorious president of Milan football club. He, however, never had the stadium and the grounds of the club, which were state property, as they are today when Milan is owned by a Chinese company.
While Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has been accused of making many decisions in conflict of interest, he even signed an amnesty for those convicted of corruption, but he never made the decision to privatize the assets and grounds of Milan or the legendary San Siro.
And Berisha, how did he give his family the land in the heart of Tirana that was the property of a sports club to build towers? Because he had the opportunity, but not the law. It's that simple. Berisha's defenders in the panels can look for an example in the world, but they can't find it. That there is none in Albania.
Because the owner of the lands of the Partizani club, according to the SPAK file, was never the son-in-law Jamarbër Malltezi. It was simply taken by a government decision.
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