The defense of the president of the Freedom Party, Ilir Meta before the Court of Appeals against Corruption and Organized Crime has been revealed.
Ilir Meta has declared before the black squads that he considers the accusations of non-declaration of assets tendentious, since according to him, the ex-wife Monika Kryemadhi was taken by filling out the asset forms.
Meta emphasized that most of the properties and bank accounts belong to Monika Kryemadhi, adding that “I was in full faith that she did everything according to the law”.
He stated that he is not responsible for the expenses of family members, including his ex-wife and ex-mother-in-law.
“Regarding the allegations of non-declaration of expenses, I consider them completely tendentious. First, I cannot be held responsible for any expenses or reductions in the accounts of my family members or even of my ex-wife and ex-mother-in-law.
Secondly, as I explained in SPAK, filling out the property forms was handled by my ex-wife, who followed all the actions with a lawyer and a notary, also for the reason that most of the properties and therefore the bank accounts were hers and she followed them. I had full faith that she did everything according to the law.
I have never refused as an individual to make the declaration according to Article 5 of the ILDKPI. Likewise, according to Article 22 of the ILDKPI, I am not responsible for the declaration of family members, and likewise, I have never had a notice or a fine according to Article 32, neither from the ILDKPI nor from Taxes.
In conclusion Madam Judge, after these explanations I gave you, I ask you to respect the Constitution, the European Convention of Human Rights, the principle of presumption of innocence and a regular legal process for the future with today’s decision. says Ilir Meta.
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Madam Judge, put an end to this prejudicial behavior towards the former President of the Republic!
The height of the irresponsibility of SPAK and especially of my accuser in SPAK for the CEZ-DIA case, the convicted by the court for domestic violence, Romeo Kara, as well as the main witness, who refers to SPAK, Elvis Mataj, who was the wing of Kastriot Ismailaj’s right-hand man in the management of DIA and denounced by him to the prosecutor’s office for theft and fraud, is exactly this paragraph written by SPAK himself on page 34, first paragraph:
“From the statements of citizen Romeo Kara, it has emerged that in conversations with citizen Elvis Mataj, the latter told him that Kastriot Ismailaj sent a significant amount of money to Ilir Meta’s house with Elvis’ bag, which in the statements of Elvis Mataj was not accepted”.
So in such a concise paragraph written by SPAK, either the accuser selected by the Government and SPAK to record this case deceives, or the witness selected by the Government and SPAK to slander me lies.
But to be serious and not like SPAK, they mainly lie both from the beginning to the end about my person for the political purposes of the regime and their own economic purposes.
Both have been close collaborators of Kastriot Ismaili in the management of DIA and after entering into conflicts with him over money matters, they were used by Damian Gjiknuri as Minister of Energy, as witnesses in the Vienna Arbitration against Kastriot Ismaili.
On this occasion, Romeo Kara won a job in the state in the energy sector, while Elvis was dismissed with justice and not only him, but also his wife, who was also accused of fraud and had direct interests with CEZ.
It is this same Romeo Kara who, in the judicial process where Kastriot Ismailaj was convicted, never mentioned my name as being connected to DIA or Kastriot Ismaili.
Even in his affidavit when he remembers how Kastriot Ismailaj offered to work with him at DIA, to Romeo’s question if he was connected to politicians, Kastriot had answered that no, he was connected to the Americans for DIA.
The fact that he was connected to the Americans in this business is proven in Mr. Josef Hejsek’s statements at the Court of Arbitration in Vienna. Especially in chapter IV “Shareholders of DIA”.
So the involvement of his American partners in this business, from the beginning, is also confirmed in the Court of Arbitration in Vienna, quite different from what SPAK tries to manipulate, as a business of Kastriot Ismaili and Arjan Laçi.
This was confirmed by his ex-wife Vojsava Ismaili, mentioning his partner in all businesses, the American Rebecca Gaskin.
As for Elvis Matajn, I can say that I have never met him since 2005, when the youth of LSI expelled him from their ranks as a deceiver and intimidater of women, which I also stated in SPAK.
Likewise, in an attempt to create the idea that Kastriot Ismaili was gaining great support from the Minister of Energy and Economy, Ilir Meta, SPAK contradicts itself when it gives him a role that Kastriot Ismaili never had as a member of the Council Supervisor from METE or replacement candidate.
On page 15, SPAK writes that on September 15: “according to the minutes of the meeting, it is described ‘The meeting was opened by Mr. Hejsek, who informed the members of the Supervisory Council (“Members”) about the latest change of the Minister of Economy, Trade and of Energy, apologized for Mr. Ciko’s absence at the Supervisory Council meeting and briefly introduced Mr. Kastriot Ismailaj, who is the candidate of the ministry for the replacement of Mr. Ciko in the Supervisory Council”.
Meanwhile, I entered the Minister’s office after September 16, when the Assembly approved the decree for the appointment.
Only a few moments later, SPAK itself refutes this untruth when it writes that: “On 25.11.2010, a meeting of the Supervisory Council of OSHE sh.a. was held, where according to the minutes kept, it turns out that they participated in the meeting of the Council, members, where Ilir Ciko is also present.”
So Ilir Ciko has not even been dismissed from the Supervisory Council and even more so that he could not be replaced by a private person like Kastriot Ismailaj.
The appointment of each member in the Supervisory Councils was made by an official act by the Minister and not by pieces of minutes that SPAK likes to include only for political and speculative reasons.
I want to emphasize the fact that SPAK itself writes on page 25 regarding the statement of Mr. Ilir Ciko during his visit to Prague, that: “During the time that Ilir Ciko was present at the meetings, there was no discussion about the agreement of CEZ Shpërndarje with the company DIA, for debt collection”.
In its manipulative efforts, SPAK insinuates that after my visit to Prague, which ended on December 2, precisely on December 7, 2010, on account of DIA, the amount of 69,102,000 lek was transferred from CEZ to the Veneto Bank with the description ” partial liquidation, invoice N23 dated December 3″.
SPAK knows very well that on December 7, 2010 it was the ERE meeting that decided on the energy price.
SPAK, in all the testimonies of its chosen ones who were close associates of Kastriot Ismaili at DIA such as Elvis Mataj, Romeo Kara or his wife, has the denunciation or information that DIA would give 500,000 Euros to the Board of ERE, to favor for the price of energy, CEZ.
But SPAK is not interested in this data because the target of SPAK is only the political opponent of the regime, Ilir Meta.
Meanwhile, there are two facts that are deliberately overlooked in the file, which I pointed out to SPAK during the interrogation.
First, ERE was an independent institution from the Government and had no dependence on the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Energy (METE).
Secondly, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Energy, headed by Ilir Meta, and the Government opposed the ERE decision taken on December 7, 2010.
KESH with sole owner (100% of shares) Ministry of Economy, Trade and Energy (METE) with letter 8276/1 on 20.12.2010 has asked ERE to review decision No. 97, dated 7.12.2020 “On determining the tariff of electricity for the public wholesale supplier for the period January 1 to December 31, 2011”.
After ERE rejected KESH’s request, then KESH appealed ERE’s decision to the Court of First Instance and then to the Court of Appeal, which rejected KESH’s request.
This clash between the Government and ERE then led to the resignation of the President of ERE.
The General Director of KESH, in addition to being a professional, I must emphasize, as I stated to SPAK, was also an exponent of LSI.
Let’s not forget what Hejsek points out in his testimony in the Court of Arbitration, in paragraph 10, that when he arrived in Tirana, Ambassador Tepshi introduced him to Kastriot Ismailaj and then the first meeting held by Kastriot Ismailaj for Mr. Hejsek was exactly with the President of ERE and his main adviser.
At the same time, as proven by the Court of Arbitration in Vienna, the brother of this main advisor to the President of ERE, the former Prime Minister was the beneficiary of DIA funds and SPAK knows this very well.
This was misused by SOROS-funded BIRN to spread the false news that this former Prime Minister was Ilir Meta.
Then “Clifford Chance”, the legal company that defended the Albanian state in the Court of Arbitration in Vienna, made an official statement excluding my person as implicated and beneficiary of DIA.
At the same time, SPAK has proven with documents and papers the strong connection of Kastriot Ismailaj with the main advisor of the President of ERE, even to the point of partnership in a joint company.
But all these facts and connections are ignored by SPAK that the only target that should definitely be suspected and accused is Ilir Meta, when the facts speak quite differently.
SPAK deliberately lies when it says that Arjan Laçi was a supporter of LSI and even its financier, when this is not true at all.
In order to supposedly make my connection with Arjan Laçi even stronger, SPAK, through manipulations, deliberately announces Arjan Laçi also from Skrapari, which is a deliberate manipulation (on page 27).
Meanwhile, Arjan Laçi is 200 years Durrsak, orthodox and came from Greece.
Nowhere does SPAK mention the American partner of Kastriot Ismaili and in DIA, Rebecca Gaskin, even though there are all the facts regarding her involvement in this business from the beginning, including the statements made by Hejsek at the Court of Arbitration in Vienna.
The SPAK does the same deliberate manipulation in the insinuations it makes about my relations with Agron Çela, who according to them has indirectly benefited from DIA, through a certain company, a certain amount of money by connecting it to the candidacy of his for LSI, as a deputy in 2013.
The time distance of this benefit claimed by SPAK from the company related to Agron Çela, on September 21, 2010, with the moment when he ran for LSI, which is more than two and a half years later, in June 2013, is not mentioned on purpose. while Mr. Çela has clarified this report very clearly and the fact that he has never financed LSI.
This whole platform of manipulations with alienation of circumstances and creation of frauds is based on the statement of the former minister, Dritan Prifti, on 2.10.2015, who was at the service of Edi Rama for economic and political benefits.
All the persons used as witnesses or interviews and journalists, such as Artan Hoxha, were his close connections and set in motion by him, by Damian Gjiknuri, as Minister of Energy and responsible for the forgiveness of 600 million CEZ euros, together with Edi Rama.
How can it be believed that he did not know that on September 1, 2010, when he was Minister of Economy, the agreement between CEZ and DIA was signed?
Everyone knows that even if a fly entered the Ministry, he would find out and impose the next fine. Moreover, the member of the Supervisory Council was his confidant.
Moreover, he had a very close friendship with Kastriot Ismail since 1998-2000 when they worked together in the Ministry of Labor.
Everyone knows what his integrity was, since the American expert in his watch where he had recorded the wiretapping with me, also found his wiretapping with his Deputy Minister of Economy.
Videotaping which he had done at his house where he had invited him for dinner and where he received 70 thousand Euros for which he also started a criminal case.
As for the citizen Vojsava Ismaili, I feel a deep regret for the difficulties she encountered after her husband’s imprisonment at that time, but also for her misuse by Dritan Prifti at the behest of Edi Rama, who imprisoned her husband for two purposes. First, for him to withdraw from the lawsuit against CEZ and secondly, to avoid attention from the affair that Rama and Gjiknuri did by forgiving 600 million Euros to CEZ.
Even more pity for the SPAK that lowers the level of the investigation in her ordinary and worthless interviews, such as the one dated 04.04.2018, that this citizen gave to a journalist named Fatos Mahmutaj.
SPAK proves its extremely unprofessional and politically instrumental attitude on page 24 where it refers to the journalist Fatos Mahmutaj, who was asked on 22.01.2024 about the circumstances of the interview of citizen Vojsava Ismaili, where he stated that she told him: “Now that Kastrioti is in prison, he continues to ask for money in forms of pressure. I don’t have money to pay these blackmails of Ilir Meta, so I chose to run away for the safety of my son”.
This is completely absurd since it is publicly and institutionally known that I have taken maximum care of her security since September 2015 when the CEZ-DIA scandal was “invented” after BIRN’s writing, which is sponsored by SOROSI and continues.
Having all the information about the misuse that was making her position difficult, Dritan Prifti and other people on account of Edi Rama and the risk of her elimination by them in order to accuse me as guilty of allegedly disappearing a witness , I asked the Chairman of the National Security Committee in the Assembly to write a letter to all the respective institutions to take care of her security.
