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Prime Minister Edi Rama gave an interview to the Italian television "Rai 3" following the publication of the investigation of the show "Report".
During the interview, the prime minister was asked by the Italian journalist about the towers being erected in Tirana and the doubts about the money with which they were financed.
Rama scolded the journalist, as he said that the number of towers that have been erected in the capital is just the beginning, adding that within 5 years there will be even more.
While talking about financing, Rama said that in Albania, according to him, there is a strong regime against money laundering in construction.
Mottola: Speaking of facts, Tirana has been transformed since you were mayor and continuously. Very high fantastic towers are built. How are these towers financed? Last year, in the real estate sector, there was an investment worth about 3.7 billion euros, but, more or less, only 800 million came from banks. Where does the money come from that...
Rama: First of all, this is also not true. We are building here. There are a number of towers, but it is only the beginning. In 5 years, we will have much more. We engaged the best architects in the world. There are six or seven Pritzker Prize winners working with us in Albania. Yesterday I was in Lezha, where we have welcomed the Afghans and where the centers will be and, just last year, in Lezha, 500 real estates were sold to citizens of the European Union, Poles, Spaniards, Czechs, Dutch.
Mottola: Yes, in Tirana, 20 percent of the apartments are empty.
Rama: Who says it?
Mottola: Official data.
Rama: No, it is not true.
Mottola: Data from electricity consumption.
Rama: No. I'm telling you something
Mottola: It's from your electric operator.
Rama: Wait, you are too polluted by information sources, which are one-sided, so we need to establish a little balance.
Mottola: They are objective data,
Rama: So, first, we have come off the Moneyval gray list, precisely because we have a very strong anti-money laundering regime from that point of view. Second, the Albanians who live abroad are no longer the Albanians who cleaned the houses or picked the fruits and who could be treated as slaves. They are people who today pay quite significant amounts to the Italian budget. There are almost 40 thousand businesses created by Albanians. And we Albanians are like you, the Italians. You are Albanians wearing Versace and period! Leave Raphael, Leonardo and others, you have nothing to do with them, to put it as it is, even though you have great thinkers, great intellectuals.
Mottola: However, here you call the Italian architects to build, like Boeri.
Rama: They're fantastic, but I'm speaking from their point of view. But if you think about the pride of Italians, you think that Rafaelo was Corsican, but we leave it at that. Then, I was telling you that, just like you, we are also connected to the land, we are connected to the roots, and the Albanians who are abroad invest to buy apartments and so on.
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