Tag: ahmeti
Macedonia 05.07.23 | 00:41

Ahmeti’s nephew threatens to sue Bilal Kasami over the Soravia scandal allegations

Drin Ahmeti, Ali Ahmeti’s nephew who recently entered into a deal to purchase a third of the large Soravia business center in Skopje with no money down, is threatening to sue the opposition BESA party and its leader Bilal Kasami. Kasami, who is one of the key rivals that Ahmeti’s DUI party...

Macedonia 04.07.23 | 21:19

Kasami calls on Ahmeti to resign and allow a full investigation into the corruption of his DUI party

BESA party leader Bilal Kasami called on DUI party leader Ali Ahmeti to resign along with the Struga Mayor Ramiz Merko, to allow the judiciary to do its work. Merko was placed on a US black list, which caused a stir in the key Albanian party, which has never faced Western scrutiny before. Ahmeti said...

Macedonia 03.07.23 | 16:56

Mickoski advises Ahmeti to stop involving his own family in his crimes

The Democratic Union for Integration lost its message and its essence, and it will be remembered by the crime and corruption carried out by its current leadership, said VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski during a visit to Kisela Voda in Skopje. VMRO has revealed evidence about a growing number of...

Macedonia 02.07.23 | 22:11

Mexhiti: The elections in DUI were a farce

Izet Mexhiti, who leads the so-called “fire faction” within the DUI party, said that the intra-party elections held today were a travesty and in violation with the statute. DUI leader Ali Ahmeti held elections meant to remove officials who sided with Mexhiti and turned against Ahmeti’s...

Macedonia 02.07.23 | 21:44

Ahmeti could be brought down by the wiretaps hidden by Zoran Zaev

DUI party leader Ali Ahmeti offered to be the first DUI party official who will undergo a full examination of his finances and his conduct in power for abuses and corruption. This offer comes after the US placed his party official and Mayor of Struga Ramiz Merko on a black list for corruption and interference...

Macedonia 02.07.23 | 17:20

Ahmeti offers to be the first DUI official who will be investigated for corruption

DUI leader Ali Ahmeti offered himself to be the first party official who will be investigated for corruption. His comments come after, in an extremely rare case of scrutiny against the party, the Mayor of Struga Ramiz Merko was put on a US black list for corruption and subversion of justice. Merko agreed...

Macedonia 01.07.23 | 15:42

VMRO-DPMNE: Kovacevski remains silent about the crimes of the Ahmeti family

Ali Ahmeti’s nephew bought businesses worth millions at just 25, taking 39 percent of the Soravia complex without investing a dime of his own money, and Dimitar Kovacevski can’t say a word about all this, said the VMRO-DPMNE party in a press release. Nobody in the world gives away 39 percent...

Macedonia 01.07.23 | 14:40

Ahmeti’s companies were receiving grants from the corrupt Innovation Fund

Cmpanies linked to the Ali Ahmeti family were receiving hefty subsidies from the corrupt Innovation Fund, known for giving money to politically linked businesses. According to the MKD news site, two companies owned by Drin Ahmeti, Ali Ahmeti’s nephew, received a total o 82,000 EUR in 2022. The...

Macedonia 29.06.23 | 15:54

Besian Ahmeti could affect his brother’s competitors from his position in the Ministry of Economy

Besian Ahmeti, Ali Ahmeti’s other nephew, who is now appointed as the First Secretary of the Macedonian Embassy in Bruxelles, is the owner – along with his brother Drin – of the company Everest JD, from2007 until 2017. The company has a permanent concession on a mineral mine necessary...

News 05.06.23 | 13:25

VMRO-DPMNE: Kovacevskki must choose – Macedonia or Ahmeti and DUI

PM Kovacevski should choose between Macedonia and his subjugation to Ali Ahmeti and DUI, reads the Sunday VMRO-DPMNE statement. “SDS should stop its infantile behavior, since a leadership meeting is not a PR stunt, but an event to deal with serious issues and deliver realistic conclusions. Thus,...

News Macedonia 25.05.23 | 09:00

DUI Vice-Chair Mexhiti: We can’t recognize Ali Ahmeti

DUI wasn’t like this. People are talking lately that we start to resemble the erstwhile DPA, the Vice-Chair of the party Izet Mexhiti said in an interview with TV21, adding that he can’t recognize the leader Ali Ahmeti in his recent behavior. “We don’t know this Ali Ahmeti. Now,...

Macedonia 04.05.23 | 19:11

Split in the coalition – senior AA official calls Ali Ahmeti “the greatest evil in this country”

The split in the ruling DUI – AA – SDSM coalition is worsening again, as senior Alliance of Albanians (AA) official Arben Fetai accused DUI leader Ali Ahmeti of being “the greatest evil in this country over the past 21 years”. AA recently joined the Government, urged by DUI, after...

Macedonia 11.04.23 | 18:43

Kasami: Ahmeti is in a crisis, he’s desperate to get BESA to join the coalition

Bilal Kasami from the BESA party acknowledged that the ruling DUI party is in a critical condition and is trying to get BESA to return to the Government. DUI engineered the entry of the Alliance of Albanians party to shore up the Government, whose weak ruling majority is further reduced with defections...

Macedonia 05.04.23 | 15:33

Ahmeti celebrated the Bechtel deal with a cigarette

DUI leader Ali Ahmeti celebrated the signing of a huge highway contract with the American company Bechtel by posting aa picture of himself smoking a cigarette. The 1.3 billion USD deal was negotiated largely by DUI and Ahmeti’s right hand man Artan Grubi. The notoriously corrupt party held an event...

Macedonia 01.04.23 | 21:07

Divisions in DUI: Ahmeti demands that Mexhiti’s faction returns to the fold

Following a meeting of DUI party leadership, leader Ali Ahmeti sent a message that he will not allow the existence of factions within the party. He announced that he will settle the matter with the rebellious faction led by Izet Mexhiti at a congress of the party. Our statute does not allow factions....

Macedonia 02.03.23 | 18:26

Ahmeti is expanding his energy business

Ali Ahmeti’s son Shkumnbin Ahmeti opened a new energy company. Two months after he registered the Theas Energy company, he now set up a company called SEE Power, registered in Bardovci near Skopje, along with businessmen from Israel and Romania, as well as Indian businessman Ranjit Nayak. With this,...

Macedonia 01.03.23 | 20:56

Former top confidant warns Ali Ahmeti that his time is running out

Former Deputy Prime Minister and powerplayer in the DUI party Musa Xhaferi made a cryptic statement, that the “old boy is counting his last days”. The comment is seen as an open challenge to party leader Ali Ahmeti, who led the 2001 Albanian insurgency that killed hundreds in Macedonia and...

Macedonia 26.01.23 | 21:58

Ahmeti’s inner circle reveals details about his ill-gotten wealth

Fatmir Limani, close relative of DUI leader Ali Ahmeti who has turned to revealing Ahmeti’s corruption and abuse of office, published details about his inexplicable wealth. In a Facebook comment, which Limani titled “the seraglios of Ali pasha”, Limani asks Ahmeti to explain who owns...

Macedonia 26.01.23 | 18:00

Ali Ahmeti’s nephew was arrested for drug smuggling

Musa Ahmeti, nephew of the most powerful Albanian politician in the country Ali Ahmeti, has been arrested for alleged drug trafficking a month ago. Alfa TV reports that Musa Ahmeti (34) was detained in the family’s stronghold of Zajas, near Kicevo. During a raid, the police found marijuana, cocaine,...

Macedonia 24.01.23 | 13:48

Ahmeti tries to keep his coalition with Kovacevski intact, promotes the new highway deal

DUI party leader Ali Ahmeti, who is facing an unprecedented revolt from party officials, called on his supporters that a “European front” is made. Ahmeti is looking to bring other Albanian parties in the coalition, mainly the Alliance of Albanians, to preserve the Government he rules together...

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