Lulzim Basha and Progozhin, the companies that connect them

2023-11-02 21:06:00, Aktualitet CNA

The company "Biniatta Trade", which helped Lulzim Basha for lobbying in Washington before the 2017 elections, turns out to have secret roots in Moscow. It is an investigation by the British public media BBC that has revealed new details about the much-discussed lobbying issue.

A bunch of documents obtained by the BBC investigation in cooperation with other media such as "Finance Uncover" and "Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation" show that "Biniatta Trade" has had a cooperation contract with "Alpha" since 2015. Consoulting" a firm registered in the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean, a country known as the haven of offshore capital.

According to the results of the investigation, "Alpha Consulting" is a secret factory financed by Vladimir Putin's close circle, including the former head of mercenaries of the notorious Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died in an air accident in August of this year. year to exert influence in the election campaigns of various countries of the world, in favor of Moscow's foreign policy.

The company is owned by a Russian citizen Viktoria Valkovskaya and according to the investigation, she has created over 900 companies that have exploited loopholes in British laws to exert influence in Western countries and their influence, hiding the real owners.

One of them is "Biniatta Trade", based in Scotland, but with offshore capital in the Seychelles Islands, which has signed a contract with "Alpha Consulting" since 2015. The firm was run by a board of directors who had divided the shares in such a way equal to 25%. British law does not compel the disclosure of shareholders of an offshore company unless they exceed this quota.

BBC writes that "Last year's reports show that American intelligence believed that Mr. Basha's election campaign was secretly supported by Russia with 500,000 dollars".

Exactly, "Biniata Trade" paid Donald Trump's former campaign aide, Republican Nik Muzin, with 150,000 dollars on behalf of Lulzim Basha for lobbying in Washington, in March 2017 before the parliamentary elections. Part of the payment was this photo of Lulzim Basha with Donald Trump, who at that time was in charge of the White House.

The BBC also writes that in September of this year, the Council of Europe appointed Mr. Basha to prepare a report on support for the reconstruction of Ukraine after the Russian invasion, where he declared that there was no conflict of interest. The article states that Basha did not respond to the BBC's interest in this matter.