Warrant Of Arrest For Draxgate’s Albanian Suspect
ALBANIAN authorities have issued a warrant of arrest for controversial businessman Mirel Mërtiri who has strong links with senior government officials in Zimbabwe.
In Albania, Mërtiri, is being [accused of grand corruption] by the special corruption and organised crimes prosecutors (SPAK) in a fraud charge estimated at €100 million of taxpayers’ money.
In Zimbabwe, the Draxgate scandal also dragged Mnangagwa into the row when the media published a photo of him meeting Mërtiri and Gert Bogdani, a former Albanian MP at the State House in Harare last year.
The controversial businessman was photographed on numerous times alongside President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Moyo at the height of the alleged the Draxgate scandal.
Some US$60 million had been targeted in the deal, which also involved Mërtiri, Delish Nguwaya and Moyo.
8th December 2021
https://www.newzimbabwe.com/warrant-of-arrest-for-draxgates-albanian-suspect/
How a Politically-Connected Albanian Built an Empire on Waste
Court records obtained by BIRN in Kumanovo, however, reveal that one of the other men in the car was Mirel Mertiri, the ultimate recipient of dozens of state contracts over the last decade – including controversial concessionary agreements with Rama’s government between 2014 and 2017 for the construction of three waste incinerators – worth hundreds of millions of euros.
According to BIRN’s findings, 42-year-old Mertiri stands behind a business empire encompassing a broad network of companies registered in Albania and in offshore jurisdictions under the names of close associates.
The incinerator concessions are the most controversial of a string of so-called ‘public-private partnerships’ undertaken by Rama’s government and, according to estimates of Albania’s Supreme State Audit, could cost Albanian taxpayers more than 350 million euros over the next 30 years.
Mertiri’s ambitions do not end at the borders of Albania, however.
Over the past two years, he has sought out contracts in Africa too, meeting Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his health minister at the time, Obadiah Moyo.
Moar details:
https://balkaninsight.com/2020/09/28/the-incinerator-how-a-politically-connected-albanian-built-an-empire-on-waste/
Paradise Papers: Mirel Mertiri
https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/56077839
Reminder: Extension on PDJT EO re: Human Rights Abuses and Corruption
Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Serious Human Rights Abuse and Corruption
On December 20, 2017, by Executive Order 13818, the President declared a national emergency with respect to serious human rights abuse and corruption around the world and, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq. ), took related steps to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.
The prevalence and severity of human rights abuse and corruption that have their source, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States, continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States. For this reason, the national emergency declared on December 20, 2017, must continue in effect beyond December 20, 2021. Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13818 with respect to serious human rights abuse and corruption.
This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the Congress.
Notice of December 16, 2021
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/12/17/2021-27570/continuation-of-the-national-emergency-with-respect-to-serious-human-rights-abuse-and-corruption
DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America
Executive Order 13818 of December 20, 2017
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/12/26/2017-27925/blocking-the-property-of-persons-involved-in-serious-human-rights-abuse-or-corruption