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From Nick Muzin to Prigozhin and people close to Putin / Threads connecting Basha with the Russians and lobbying payments

2023-11-03 13:52:00, Politikë CNA

From Nick Muzin to Prigozhin and people close to Putin / Threads connecting

On the eve of the general parliamentary elections of 2017, Lulzim Basha published on social networks a photo with the former president of the USA, Donald Trump.

CNA was one of the first media to denounce the scandal behind this photo, and it was lobbying with money financed by Russian "offshore" companies.

CNA reported how Basha paid a US lobbying company to secure a photo with President Donald Trump and support in the US Congress.

This scandal was also denounced by the prestigious American " Mother Jones " in March 2018, which with a full investigation showed the financing of 675 thousand dollars by the DP for the company Muzin, with the signature and personal negotiation of Lulzim Basha.

Basha had contracted an American lobbyist named Nick Muzin, who is also a former aide to Donald Trump's campaign.

The contract between Muzin and the Democratic Party was signed by Basha, to lobby for the DP in the months of March, April and May.

The investigation was deepened even further and in March 2019, official documents of the US Department of Justice were published, where according to the statements made by the Lobbyist Company Muzin Capitol LLC, registered on 14.11.2017, it turns out that: The Russian company "Biniatta Trade LP" would pay STONINGTON STRATEGIES under the agreement 4 sums.

From Nick Muzin to Prigozhin and people close to Putin / Threads connecting

In the above document it is written "Fees and Expenses", i.e. fees and expenses: 150 thousand dollars for each month for a quarterly period, on March 15, April 15 and May 15, in the total amount of 450 thousand dollars.

According to the same document, "Biniata Trade LP" will pay Stonington Strategies the amount of 500,000 usd as a special fee until the closing of the agreement on March 23, 2017.

In three months, Basha paid 450 thousand dollars and the amount of 500 thousand dollars was paid as a "special fee" by the Russian "offshore" company. In total, together with the 75,000 dollars paid by the DP, there is a total of 1,025,000 dollars that Basha has spent on lobbying in the USA.

From Nick Muzin to Prigozhin and people close to Putin / Threads connecting

Despite the fact that we were all in front of the facts, Basha, the democrats, the allies, along with the former prime minister Sali Berisha, denied the Russian funding and publicly defended Luli.

The lobbying issue remained quiet for some time, only to stir up Albania again in September 2022 with several articles by the BBC, AFP and VOA, which once again detailed the connections. of Basha with the Russians.

Again, Basha denied all the accusations against him, coming up with several different versions.

In fact, yesterday it was the "BBC" that again shed light on this scandal and revealed the man behind "Biniatta Trade LP", the company that Basha used for lobbying.

The BBC reported that a Russian national named Maxim Trofimets owned Biniatta Trade LP, and had secretly signed deals with Alpha Consoulting, an offshore company.

Maxim Trofimets is a 40-year-old Russian helicopter sales director who was born in Moscow.

From Nick Muzin to Prigozhin and people close to Putin / Threads connecting
Maxim Trofimets

An investigation by "Finance Uncovered", "BBC" and "Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation" shows that "Biniatta Trade" has had a cooperation contract since 2015 with "Alpha Consoulting", a firm registered in the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean. a country that is known as the paradise of "offshore" capital.

"Alpha Consulting" is a secret factory financed by the close circle of Vladimir Putin, to exert influence on the election campaigns of various countries of the world, in favor of Moscow's foreign policy.

This company is owned by a Russian citizen, Viktoria Valkovskaya, and one of the people who financed it was the former mercenary head of the notorious Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who allegedly died in a plane crash.

From Nick Muzin to Prigozhin and people close to Putin / Threads connecting
Former mercenary leader of the infamous Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin

According to the investigation, "Alpha Consulting" has created over 900 companies that have exploited loopholes in British laws to influence Western countries, hiding the real owners.

"Biniatta Trade" based in Edinburgh, Scotland, but with "offshore" capital in the Seychelles islands, has signed a contract with "Alpha Consulting" since 2015.

The firm was run by a board of directors who had divided the shares equally at 25%, making the shareholders non-public, as under British law it is not mandatory to do so below the 25% quota.

"Biniata Trade", thus hiding the owners, paid 150 thousand dollars for Basha to lobbyist Nick Muzin for a photo with Trump and to get support in the American Congress./ CNA





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