"Rama has 4 deposits"/ Rishfaqet Ahmetaj, confesses to threats, government affairs and its connections with crime

Former Deputy Prime Minister Arben Ahmetaj has made another strong political statement, this time describing Tirana Mayor Erion Veliaj as a direct victim of Prime Minister Edi Rama. During the interview on Syri TV, Ahmetaj openly stated that Rama was the one who sent Veliaj to prison, not for justice, but for spectacle and political calculation.

-Erion Veliaj says Rama put me in prison.

Ahmetaj: Rama has put him in jail. Yes. Erion Velina, I'm sorry I'll come back here. Erion Veliaj is a victim of Rama. And he has lied to him continuously to make a spectacle of arresting him in the office. Edi Rama has mocked Erion Velina and has publicly degraded him on purpose. For statistics, to get rid of him and if you look at why he put him in jail, it has nothing to do with the deposit. Because he keeps...

-That the deposit belongs to Rama.

Ahmetaj: Oh, the deposit shouldn't be tampered with, because it's returned to Erion Veliaj, he says to him, "I did this for you." And if you see it, they release the assets of X and Y.

Ahmetaj Rama

Former Deputy Prime Minister Arben Ahmetaj has articulated another direct accusation against the government and the Socialist Party, stating that the current government essentially represents the former Municipality of Tirana and no longer a political force with an ideological identity. In an interview given to Syri TV, Ahmetaj stated that the government is contaminated by the behaviors and practices of a single man, referring to Prime Minister Edi Rama.

Ahmetaj: If you look at it today, the government is the former Municipality of Tirana. All contaminated by the official and unofficial vices of this man. Take one by one. All of them. Where is the Socialist Party? Who is the Socialist Party? What does Pirro Vëngu have to do with the Socialist Party? What does the Minister of Interior have to do with the Socialist Party? What does the looter have to do with the party, with the Socialist Party? It was, in Anta's tenders, then in the Municipality's tenders, then in the Ministry of Infrastructure's tenders. And

 I said this. And everyone applauds the jokes of the head of the organization and no one speaks. Where is the rest? What happened to the parliament? One of the pillars of the state. The parliament has three types of deputies, I'm talking about the part, the left, of the Socialist Party. Because I feel sorry for the socialist who is the headstrong one and the dome of the Socialist Party.

There is a group that are salaried workers, who did not go there for a mission, they went for the salary. There is a group that has decided to remain silent. There is also a group, not small, involved in affairs, from AKSHI, from lands, from hydroelectric power plants, from building permits. So, the Socialist Party is unfortunately dead. And those two or three normal people, beyond any kind of affair, have you heard of anyone?

Former Deputy Prime Minister Arben Ahmetaj has stated that the first person to know Edi Rama very well was Ditmir Bushati. On 'Syri TV', he apologized to him, after he said that Rama had forgiven the state for crime. Ahmetaj has explained why he returned to the government after leaving as Minister of Finance.

Ahmetaj: We had a discussion with Ditmir Bushati in 2019 and I partially agreed with Ditmir. The first was that he is unworthy to lead the state. Here I agree. And when he told me, why did you return? I said I returned for the people on the street, I didn't return for that. He came to my office, to my office, to my small office, there, the state minister and said, please, do it too, because we are going bankrupt, deal with the pandemic too.

-Who came to your office, Rama?

Head of the organization.

-To your little office?

Yes, tiny, small office. And I apologize to Ditmira and she said to me, this guy has handed over the state to organized crime. I was naive. I didn't accept it. This is the other apology I ask the Albanians for. Of course. But over the years, 21 then, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, it's not like he has handed over the state to organized crime. This guy has turned the private state into the hands of the cartels. Mr. Peka, money, drug money has removed the class, it has massacred the middle class in Albania. 

Former Deputy Prime Minister Arben Ahmetaj has revealed another shocking episode from behind the scenes of power, stating that he has seen phone messages between Prime Minister Edi Rama and another person against him.

 In the interview given to Syri TV, Ahmetaj said that these communications are directly related to his appointment as Deputy Prime Minister.

Ahmetaj: I also told you in the interview, I have seen the SMS of the head of the organization. When someone says, you promised us that you would dissolve it, why did you make him deputy prime minister? I share this with one of my former colleagues. And I will return to this former colleague in a moment because I have an apology to ask.

And Rama says the pear has its tail backwards. And then the intrigue began. And it turns out that you referred to this double standard. On the one hand he says, if I were a prosecutor and a judge...

-I'll linger here a little longer because this is interesting. A former colleague of yours has an SMS with the prime minister when he says...

No, no no no, not my former colleague. A third person.

-There is an SMS with the Prime Minister...

Yes, yes, one of these that comes out...

-Why did you make him deputy prime minister?

One of these who comes out in the lottery TTVV, KK, BB, L L. Yes. Yes. He writes to the prime minister, why did you make him deputy prime minister? You told us that you would dissolve it, why...

-Even the Prime Minister's response?

The pear has its tail backwards. But it doesn't matter anymore.

Arben Ahmetaj

Former Deputy Prime Minister Arben Ahmetaj has revealed that he received 3 death threats in October last year.

He even chose one of them to show that he has a number from Venezuela.

"These are numbers with a very rapid VPN change, which leads me to the logic that they are not to be taken lightly. Is it a coincidence that it has to do with the October events in Albania?" Ahmetaj said on Syri TV.

Arben Ahmetaj: Order! One of the three messages, in October. Please, are you following it? This is a number, I have the impression either from Myanmar, or Venezuela. So, either from the former Burma or from Venezuela. Death threat. Practically these messages today, all three, are with the authorities not only Swiss. Not only Swiss. Practically, the information is still informal, it seems to me that they are not simple numbers. They are numbers with a very fast VPN change, which leads me to the logic that they are not to be joked about. Is it a coincidence that it has to do with the events of October in Albania? I don't know. But the fact is that this is a new threat and genocide continues in Albania. I pray that it is not, I pray that it is a coincidence. I pray that it is, that it is a coincidence because if it were not a coincidence, I believe that a new well will open in relation to all the people involved who threaten me and my family. I'll tell you one thing, Mr. Peka, that, of course, I have entered a psychosis, a conviction that at the point I am, in the injustice that has been done to me, for me, justice has a lot of value. In fact, my life is not worth even half of the truth anymore, in relation to the truth coming out and in relation to the safety of my family. I am in this psychosis. And I'm telling you and I'm telling the Albanians.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Arben Ahmetaj has articulated another direct accusation against Prime Minister Edi Rama, stating that the head of government has built several "depositories" within the state for criminal-financial interests.

In his interview on Syri TV, Ahmetaj named institutions and senior officials who, according to him, are being politically protected due to the role they play in this scheme.

Arben Ahmetaj: Edi Rama has created four deposits of his criminal-financial interests in the organization. The Municipality of Tirana, the Ministry of Infrastructure with Plaçkica, AKSHI, his private kindergarten, and for the last seven or eight years, healthcare. We will talk about healthcare next time, as we discussed, and about the land issue. You know, I told you. It says, in my email, 1000 Nesti Angoni send denunciations.

-So you're saying, Erjon Veliaj, Belinda Balluku, AKSHI and Ogerta Manastirliu are...

Ahmetaj: They are deposits. That's the reason, that's the reason why he has, he has behaved differently with them and differently with me. That. Your question was why do you protect them? I would be ashamed if an organization protected me.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Arben Ahmetaj has issued direct accusations against the current government, stating that Albania has been deliberately pushed towards a model where organized crime controls the state.

During another interview on Syri TV, Ahmetaj said that for years he has been fighting to turn the country into a drug-trafficking republic and that he has files and documents to prove this.

Arben Ahmetaj: I have the files and letters here. I have fought as hard as I could against Albania turning into a drug-trafficking republic. Since 2014, since 2015. Look at what happened with the ANA. Imagine if I had agreed to leave the VAT project, the Value Added Tax, in the hands of private individuals who we don't know who they would be, but as the facts show, some of them are directly linked to crime. All the taxpayers' data. As are the personal data. Do you know, Mr. Peka, what wealth do people have in Albania? Apart from their houses, I'm not going into it. It's the data. What does Albania have, does it have gold, does it have uranium? It's the personal data. Personal data is handed over to organized crime. But the police are involved, the police dome. I'm not talking about the ordinary police. It's involved. No way. Have they put their hands in TIMS? Yes mo. A, one of the most cybersecurity tenders, is a company accused of criminal organization, person. Yes. Was this personal data used during the elections? Yes. It was used.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Arben Ahmetaj has made another serious public denunciation during his fourth interview on Syri TV, where he stated that he was directly threatened and that there was a criminal plan against him for kidnapping and physical elimination.

According to Ahmetaj, the events occurred while he was living in a rented apartment abroad and the information comes from service sources.

Ahmetaj stated that the threats were direct and personal. "At Rotondo e Nobis, where I was renting, they threatened me directly. Regardless of the person, we are talking about a former minister and former deputy prime minister," he said, emphasizing that his institutional status did not protect him from criminal pressure.

Further, the former Deputy Prime Minister revealed that during this year he received verified information about an attempted illegal seizure of a person.

Arben Ahmetaj: I was directly threatened at Rotondo ee Nobis, where I was living as a renter. That is, regardless of the person. We are talking about a former minister, a former deputy prime minister.

During this year, there is a lot of news, there is very real information from service sources about an attempt to illegally kidnap a person. And here the authorities are informed and notified. So, they had a plan within the criminal group that I mentioned above, that they discussed, up to the physical elimination.

Of course, that was the plan from the beginning. For illegal seizure of a person from here, I had crossed the border with them, then according to them I had crossed the border illegally into Italy. In Italy the carabinieri would have caught me and they would have taken me to Dumani so that I would never get out of prison alive. Of course they gave up for three reasons, the three reasons are not important, important for Albanians. It is a conversation made by a criminal organization. It is a conversation made by a criminal organization. Yes, this does not apply to Albanians, this has to do with me.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Arben Ahmetaj gave his fourth consecutive interview today to Syri TV, where he repeated strong accusations about what he describes as a well-organized campaign against him and his family.

Ahmetaj has stated that for more than a year he has experienced unprecedented treatment in 30 years, directly linking it to political and institutional developments in the country.

In his statement, Ahmetaj said that his personal situation reflects the current Albanian reality.

" In relation to me and my family, many things have changed, just as they have changed in the Albanian reality over the course of a year. A deep, well-organized genocide against my family has continued. I have explained this to you off camera, but I have also said in front of the cameras that the way in which I and my family have been treated is unprecedented in 30 years. In fact, I have said since February 2023 that a semi-mafia structure exists ," he says.