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Sali Berisha, ex-Albanian leader, rejects U.S. charges of corruption


“It is my deep conviction that this declaration against me has been based entirely on misinformation that Mr. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has gotten from a corrupted lobby process involving Edi Rama and George Soros, who are close friends,” Mr. Berisha said. “They have no evidence. None at all. If they announced one bit, I will be most thankful. But they have no concrete proof based on fact, not manipulation or slander.”
Mr. Berisha, who has declared his innocence in a letter to Mr. Blinken, spoke with The Times roughly a week after the secretary of state declared the 76-year-old Albanian politician one of the Balkan nation’s first post-communist presidents during the early 1990s and later its prime minister from 2005 to 2013 persona non grata. ....

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