Ahmetaj: "Top Channel" and other media were paid by the incinerators

2024-02-01 21:45:00, Politikë CNA

Ahmetaj: "Top Channel" and other media were paid by the incinerators

Former Deputy Prime Minister Arben Ahmetaj

Former Deputy Prime Minister Arben Ahmetaj denounced the media paid by the people of the incinerators this evening.

Ahmetaj mentioned "Top Channel" as one of the media outlets paid by the incinerators.

He stated that "Top Channel" and some other media have become mercenaries of the people of a mega-affair and have attacked him on their behalf.

Also, Ahmetaj emphasized that these media have deceived by pretending that they were fighting corruption.

"I was accused by public opinion, therefore, in Albanian criminal populism, I was being stoned from the windows of 'Top Channel', or from all the media paid by the incinerators. Mercenaries, volunteers, paid, sponsored, everyone. I wonder how, when it comes out in the papers that you were paid by the incinerators and to come out and pretend that you are fighting corruption is madness. However, this is another discussion and chapter. So, if Tirana is investigated, Albanians will not be surprised, but will be shocked. It will go very high", underlined the former deputy prime minister.

Journalist Çim Peka mentioned the raised alibi that he submitted the procedural violations to the head of PL, Ilir Meta, after he was replaced by Ben Blushi, "Top Channel" and Erion Veliaj.

Ahmetaj replied that: "The conspiracy theory that I submitted the file to Ilir Meta and the American embassy was supplied by Erion Veliaj, Belinda Balluku and I don't believe that Edi Rama believed it, because he is smarter than that. This story was believed by Lefter Koka and Mirel Mërtiri. The file is publicly known to have been part of the investigation of the HCLA. But this was used as an excuse to find the scapegoat. What was the scapegoat? There was a man who admitted that he was a friend of Mirel Mërtir. Well, yes, he did not participate in the proceedings, but he did not sign. What do we need because he hasn't signed. We will build the blow of this man out and out, so that the political ambush turns into a legal murder. And what are the steps. All the smoke started, no he gave no he didn't give the file. I didn't take it seriously the first time I heard it. My former friends used to say it with regret at the tables; how is it possible that this Ben Ahmetaj gave the file to Ilir Meta and the US embassy. That is, as if he felt sorry for me, as if surprised. Cultivation of a long conspiracy, I don't believe that Ed Rama believed this, but Ed Rama used this against me to find a man who, according to him, would close the incinerator case". / CNA