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'Washington Post': McGonigal was up to his neck in secret deals with the prime minister of Albania
Dorian Ducka, former adviser to Edi Rama and one of the main people rumored in the case of the former head of the FBI for New York, Charles McGonigal, was summoned to SPAK today.
Ducka testified before the special prosecutors, who apparently opened an Albanian dossier, in addition to the American investigation into the case. And this is more normal, since McGonigal was sentenced in the USA for the money that Agon Neza gave him, and that he had high-level meetings in Albania.
And why can SPAK investigate domestically, except for the American part that has already been proven and accepted by the former head of the FBI?
SPAK has no other way but to investigate why the money was given to it and whether the government is involved. In this case, Prime Minister Edi Rama himself, whose advisor is the famous person B in the American justice file.
As is known, McGonigal has held numerous meetings here, even with Prime Minister Edi Rama, but also with senior officials of the majority. He was even given an honor by the socialist head of the municipality of Tropoja, where senior officials of the ruling majority were also present.
As you know, a lot has been said about this issue; there has been talk of giving money to businessmen and media publishers, to remove their name from the US blacklist, but also for other business issues that are being talked about. As is the possibility of lobbying for the Russian businessman Oleg Deribaska, who is on the blacklist of the USA and the European Union.
Regarding McGonigal's visits to Albania, the "New York Times" wrote that: "While he was still in the FBI, he established a relationship with the Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama and, according to Washington prosecutors, took steps that benefited this politician."
The connection between the money he received and the service he rendered to Rama was also pointed out by CNN, when he wrote: "McGonigal allegedly accepted at least $225,000 to provide that kind of assistance, lying to the FBI about his activities, including numerous trips to Europe paid for by his Albanian contact and taken without informing the FBI, as well as camouflaged a secret relationship he had with the Prime Minister of Albania."
The 'Washington Post' was even more direct, when it described in darker terms the relationship between Edi Rama and the former FBI official, "Charles McGonigal, has received money to advance the interests of the Albanian prime minister", writes the newspaper.
"McGonigal was up to his neck in secret deals with the prime minister of Albania," she says.
The service McGonigal provided for Rama is similar to the one he performed for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
The former head of the FBI for New York was personally involved in the launch of the investigation into a lobbying contract of Lulzim Basha in the US in connection with a payment of murky origin, of 675 thousand USD, with which the former Democratic leader benefited from a photo of President Donald Trump, several interviews and meetings across the ocean.
The indictment describes how Neza and McGonigal entered Rama's office in the prime minister through the informal adviser, Dorian Ducka. Neza and Ducka use McGonigal to influence Edi Rama for their businesses; oil tenders, avoidance of Russian companies in favor of Chinese ones, etc.
The meeting was kept secret by the FBI, to whom McGonigal was tasked with telling the movements. Former colleagues of the FBI agent told CNN then that this should be considered a case of corruption.
After the meeting at the Prime Minister's office in September 2017 with Edi Rama, McGonigal received 225 thousand USD from Agron Neza.
On November 14, 2017, according to American laws, lobbyist Nik Muzin made transparent to the Department of Justice, the money he had received in exchange for the services he had provided to Basha and DP, before the elections.
The BIRN agency published, on December 23, 2017, based on the data of Nik Muzin, a strong article by the journalist Besar Likmeta, where the hypothesis about Russian connections was not yet mentioned, but doubts were raised about the funding sources of the money that had arrived in the USA .
In November 2017, McGonigal returned to Tirana. He meets Rama, who apparently found him the lucrative job that would restore his honor.
Here is what the New York Times writes: "In November, after Mr. McGonigal met again with the Prime Minister and Mr. Ducka in Albania, contacted the same prosecutor who had taken him with him to Austria (on account of Tom Doshit - note of Lapsi.al), to start a possible investigation against a lobbyist, that the political opponent of Mr. Rama had hired for have access to and support of President Donald J. Trump."
It does not seem a coincidence that this action endangers Rama from the USA, when in parallel, from the USA, Aleksandar Vucic was attacked, as the man who leads the mafia in Serbia. The investigation in question was published in the prestigious New York Times, at a time when word spread in the diplomatic salons of Tirana that Edi Rama and Aleksandër Vucic were about to leave, and that they were talking about this autumn. / Pamphlet
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