28 Oct Message from President Meta to Albanians and members of the Freedom Party, one week after his illegal and criminal abduction
Today marks one week since my illegal abduction by the “tonton macoutes” of the DumDumani regime that was created by Edi Rama and the international Mafia in our country. It is crystal-clear that this abduction planned for a long time, took place exactly at this time, at the beginning of the campaign for the 2025 elections, with a purpose of guaranteeing the Narcho regime to rule for another 4 years, by using the Narcho justice, to the detriment of Albanians and their national interests.
Why should the President of the Freedom Party, the third largest parliamentary party of the last 20 years, and the former President of the Republic be abducted in the middle of the highway, through a manipulative show that lasted several minutes, despite of his special protection by the Guard of the Republic?
Is it because he has never ignored an interrogation request by SPAK or any other juridical institution?
Is it because he was caught committing a flagrant crime? Of course, not.
To all those pseudo-commentators, who are concerned about my reaction against this criminal mafia-like arrest, without presenting any warrant, stripped of professional ethics and using brute force, emanating from the animal instincts of their master, I would pose the question: wasn’t the late Italian Prime-Minister Aldo Moro abducted by the Red Brigades operatives in police uniforms?
I am convinced that my abduction was prepared by and with the consensus of the most malign occult factors, who are terrified by the presence of Ilir Metaj in public life, by the truth he utters in public, by the deconstruction of the Judicial Rama-form in front of Venice Commission, a pseudo-reform which has destroyed the state of the rule of law and has installed a very dangerous police, judicial and gang-like junta, so that the country is ranked at the lowest international indexes of quality of judiciary system.
The abduction of Ilir Metaj by the Mafia in power, by order of the three mercenaries Altin Dumani, Arben Kraja and Sotir Kllapi, was carried out with the intention to make it impossible for me to defend myself in public and in the media against the ridiculous and groundless accusations which are not based on any facts, or penal proof against me.
The investigations against me started in December 2019 based on the accusations filed by a man, such as Romeo Karaj, convicted by the Court for domestic violence, who was also an employee of the regime, OSHE and once an associate of Kastriot Ismailaj at CEZ-DIA (the company in charge of collecting debts on behalf of the Czech energy company CEZ operating in the Albanian market).
This case was initiated at the time of the fierce conflict for the protection of the Constitutional Court between me as President of the Republic and the “Renaissance” Government, which wanted to unlawfully appoint all the members of the Constitutional Court, in order to produce this failed judicial Ramaforma of which all the Albanians are aware.
For years, Altin Dumani, in cooperation with Edi Rama and Damian Gjiknuri, not only lured many people to make false statements, but also intimidated many others, who had problems with justice, for theft and fraud, as it is the case of Elvis Mataj, who was Kastriot Ismailaj’s right-hand man, to use them in the arbitration trial in Vienna against him, but also afterwards, to make misleading statements regarding my relations with Kastriot Ismailaj.
Likewise, through Dritan Prifti and Tom Doshi, they tried to use Kastriot Ismailaj’s relatives to provoke me to intervene for his release and then they encouraged them to give false interviews.
Regarding this issue, as Speaker of the Assembly, I sent official information to the Prosecutor’s Office and asked them to take measures, since they could even do harm or eliminate Ms. Vojsava Ismailaj, wife of Kastriot Ismailaj, and then claim that I was the person responsible, allegedly, as revenge or for making disappear a witness who has never been considered as such.
Altin Dumani knows very well that Kastriot Ismailaj had connections with CEZ long before I became Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, because of his American partner Rebeka, and I am not the person who connected him with the Czechs.
Likewise, Dumani knows very well that the Ministry of Economy and Energy maintained ties with CEZ on behalf of the Albanian Government, as a 24% shareholder in CEZ-Albania.
Dumani knows very well that the agreement between CEZ and DIA was signed on September 1, 2010, and that was a contractual agreement between two companies with mutual interests.
Meanwhile, I became Minister of Economy on September 16th.
Likewise, he knows very well that Kastriot Ismailaj has never been a candidate to be elected member of the Supervisory Council of CEZ-Albania, nor a member of this Council, nor an assistant to the Minister, because there is no such act to appoint or elect him.
His presence during the visit that I conducted in Prague during a documented working visit has nothing to do with the fact that he was part of our delegation, which is certified by the respective documentation.
But Mr. Ismailaj was an official partner of CEZ who was also our host, together with the Minister of Economy of the Czech Republic.
In the same way, Kastriot Ismailaj was neither a wanted person nor connected to gangs, as most of those who fly with Edi Rama’s charter are today, whose expenses are never declared and which Dumani does not have the courage to be concerned.
Dumani speculates when he says that I did not tell the truth about the trip to Prague, which, on the contrary, was a very accurate testimony. So, we might have been travelling with the same plane, but not for the same purpose.
And this is logical because same purpose means, for example, going on vacation with someone to the same place.
But in this particular case, my purpose and goal was to encourage the leaders of CEZ not to delay the investments that were vital because of the winter we had already entered.
Regarding the claims that after this visit the price of electricity was lowered by ERE (regulatory agency) in favor of CEZ, I must clarify that ERE was an independent institution from the Government.
Not only that, but the Ministry of Economy and Energy, through KESH (the energy generation corporation) contested the ERE’s decision in all courts.
Moreover, this clash between the Government and ERE resulted in the resignation or dismissal of the President of ERE.
But Altin Dumani does not find it suitable to mention this fact, even though he was present during my testimony, because he has taken over the task of the party’s kamikaze to build a fake synoptic picture, in order to mount political accusations without evidence.
For 4 years, Dumani made every effort to obtain false statements against me from Kastriot Ismailaj, while he was imprisoned, but without success.
Everyone in Fier penitentiary as well as in SPAK know this.
Unable to prove a criminal fact from this case, SPAK released a lot of delinquents to file endless other reports on lobbying issues, asset declaration, health issues, etc.
Finally, I have to briefly state that in all the claims made by SPAK for the 20-year time-period investigations on me, there are only two cases that I need to clarify.
The failure to declare, according to them, of my health expenses in 2013 in Vienna in the amount 7341 Euros. As well as the payment in November 2014, of the amount of 7984 Euros in a clinic in Austria.
So, we are only talking about 15 thousand Euros in total in 20 years of investigation.
I must clarify that this situation was due to (false) assurances from my ex-wife that everything was paid for and declared according to the law.
Then, everything else was just a machination to put on me responsibilities that do not belong to me, since the process of declaring assets or health and medical expenses was handled by my ex-wife in complete good faith, while she also communicated with the lawyer and the notary public for these matters, and was looking after most of the properties.
Regarding the lobbying issue, as I clarified in the courtroom, everything was done, to my knowledge, according to Albanian and American laws and I never authorized illegal actions.
In the courtroom, I demonstrated with a concrete document how the company “McKeon Group” had registered with FARA (Department of Justice) a contract signed by Fideszis, a Greek-American lawyer, without my and LSI’s knowledge and authorization.
On January 20, the President of “McKeon Group” officially asked FARA (Department of Justice) to correct that agreement after the Speaker of the Parliament of Albania, Mr. Ilir Metaj, had told them that this person, Fideszis, was not authorized by him and LSI, and that the objectives of cooperation are different from those stated in the agreement.
Likewise, I have to clarify that regarding the two lobbying companies presented by the Albanian-American, Adrian Shatku, to my knowledge, every decision of LSI has been legal in compliance with the Albanian and American law.
If SPAK finds discrepancies between declarations submitted to the CEC (Central Election Commission) and benefits from lobbying companies for the interest of LSI, SPAK and the FBI have had every opportunity to verify which persons or companies have paid in the USA and decide on criminal prosecution.
It is indisputable that I, Ilir Metaj, did not authorized anyone to do such actions or that I had knowledge on what was going on.
But SPAK is not interested in the truth and the accountability, but, rather, it attempts to create the smoke that as long as the above agreements are declared as services to LSI and Ilir Metaj, the person who pays is Ilir Metaj. This is untrue and SPAK and the FBI know who are the people who pay and who must be accountable to Albanian and American laws.
Likewise, I must distance myself with disgust from the hints and insinuations made by SPAK from the phone records seized from my ex-wife that I have exerted my influence in favor of the Albanian-American businessman, Adrian Shatku, and that I was aware of the benefits to my ex-wife.
This is a desperate attempt by SPAK to add one more insinuation to the long list of pamphlets.
Even more shameful is the conclusion that I benefited from the cards that my ex-wife received and used from Adrian Shatku, which, had I known, I would never have allowed.
Similarly, the conclusion that the Speaker of the Assembly intervened to make an amendment to a law, in favor of a businessman, is absurd.
The law-making procedure is defined as to how it starts and concludes, and the role of the Speaker of the Assembly is like that of any other deputy in the voting process, based on his/her conviction.
How was SPAK not concerned about many custom-made laws and proper name-laws that Edi Rama submitted and approved in the Assembly, which were denounced by the President of the Republic?
Even more absurd is the conclusion that since the Speaker of the Parliament made inquiries with the President of AKEP (Agency of Electronic and Postal Communications) about the concerns raised by the only Albanian company in the field of telecommunications, PLUS, this was defined as intervention for favoritism, at a time that the PLUC company complaint was that they were being discriminated by foreign companies.
While at PLUS, we had Albanian shareholders and their concern could not be ignored.
In conclusion for today, the entire SPAK pamphlet against me is an excuse to carry out the act of kidnapping and strict political isolation, in order to coordinate with Edi Rama, Erion Veliaj, SHISH and their associates infiltrated into the Freedom Party, to seize the leadership of this political force, to turn it into a servant to the regime.
This will never happen! So, I request from the General Secretary, Mr. Tedi Blushi, the Political Presidency of the Freedom Party and all our structures around the country, to give the deserved response to this ominous scenario for democracy, because the Party of Freedom cannot become the Party of Betrayal.