Bank of Albania: “No risk of money laundering through ‘1 Billion USD’ project”
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The Bank of Albania Governor, Gent Sejko, excluded the possibility that private banks may be involved in money laundering schemes, as claimed by the opposition, through the 1 Billion EUR PPP project that was announced by the government.
“Banks will lend money based on their liquidity, which is the money deposited by the population. We don’t see any laundering potential through the activity of concessions and PPP projects”, said Governor Gent Sejko.
However, Sejko added that the Bank of Albania alone cannot certify the purity of the money coming from other financial sources. This job, according to him, is up to other institutions.
The government has announced a 1 Billion USD project, mainly through Private-Public-Partnership and concession agreements, through which they will build important national roads, public schools and many other public works.
The opposition has officially demanded for this project to be stopped, accusing the government of trying to launder criminal money through this project, since a report of the US State Department, released this March, has included Albania in the list of countries that are prone for money laundering.
The Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama, considered these accusations ridiculous and an extraordinary explosion of imagination.
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