The former chairman of the Democratic Party, Lulzim Basha, has denied the claim of the USA, according to which the Democratic Party was financed by Russia.
Through a post on Twitter, Basha emphasizes that PD has never received any foreign funding, much less from a Russian source.
“The Democratic Party has never received any foreign funding, much less from a Russian source. When such allegations were circulated in some media, the Democratic Party formally asked the judiciary to investigate these allegations and fully cooperated with the judiciary, which rejected any claims of foreign funding. We are proud of the steadfast partnership with our strategic ally, the USA, and determined to move forward alongside our Euro-Atlantic allies for the consolidation of Western values and the full integration of Albania into the EU,” Basha writes on Twitter.
News broke yesterday that Russia has secretly given more than $300 million to political parties and candidates in dozens of countries since 2014, and that President Putin has engaged in covert political financing around the world, according to a senior US official.
According to the official who spoke to the media, this is the conclusion reached by a report by the US intelligence community which analyzed Russia’s funding “in more than 24 countries over the past few years in an effort to manipulate democracies from within”.
Meanwhile, today, the Voice of America published the news that Albania is part of the list of countries that have been financed by Russia.
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