Skopje, 29 July 2024 (MIA) – The Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) in a press release Monday reacted after former economy minister Kreshnik Bekteshi was charged with obstruction of justice. 

DUI called the allegations “baseless, aimed at discrediting the party and its officials.”

The Democratic Union for Integration condemns the politically framed ‘witch hunt’, directed against our former minister of economy Kreshnik Bekteshi and DUI as a political organization. The baseless allegations for ‘obstruction of justice’ against him are the most recent in a series of baseless accusations and threats aimed to discredit our party and its officials. Last month, we faced numerous death threats sent to our MPs and party officials in addition to the day-to-day false defamation,” said DUI’s reaction.

According to the opposition party, these actions are clearly showing the government trying to distract the public from its disastrous failures and to intimidate the Albanian citizens, who are, as it said, clearly discontent with the rapid worsening of their position since the establishment of the new government. 

“This is a clear attempt for political revenge against the party that instutionalized the dignity of the Albanian people in this country and to silence the voice of the Albanian people by reinstating the captured state,” said the press release.

DUI also called on the international community and the media to follow these events. 

The Interior Ministry said last week that the Ohrid police filed charges against a Kichevo man, 39, for obstruction of justice, revealing only his initials. Later, some media reported that the man in question is former economy minister Kreshnik Bekteshi. 

“On May 7, 2024, the man messaged a police commander in Ohrid police commenting the taking of legal police measures and an investigation in relation to article 149 of the criminal code and article 190 of the electoral code,” the Interior Ministry said in its daily newsletter. 

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