Gjallca dies. Xhaferri 52%
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The government promises only 52% for Xhaferri’s 210,000 clients
Berisha: It’s the people’s fault
“Up to the knees they will be brought down…”
After the lightning strike against Sude’s network at the end of January, and after the concealed bankruptcy of “Gjallca”, in the evening hours of yesterday deep changes were foreseen in the daily life of the people. This had already become clear in September and in November of last year when, in Tirana, going beyond the limits of rallies, some demonstrations had nothing to do with Albania, up to the change of government. All because of the “pyramid schemes” that terrified and angered all Albanian citizens.
On the 31st day of this January, the president issued a statement and, calm and unyielding, as if he were the representative of a superpower, warned the leaders of the “firms” that the law stood before them. And the “reason” that should have frightened them was tax obligations. In any case, the news was truly not devastating. On the same day, the head of “Gjallca” also came out with a press statement to deny that anything was happening. Meanwhile, people began to appear in queues at the company’s doors, according to claims that they were depositing surplus millions, ordinary payments and, in these tragic moments, Berisha, after blocking the banking offices of the first two enterprises among the so-called “fallen”, was still exploiting depositors’ money and the final wish of most creditors to finish off “except it’s not blocked in the bank”. According to the daily statement, depositors also offer the firms extended-interest terms of up to 250 million. At least that was said in yesterday’s statement in Tirana, alluding also to “bankruptcy” and other lines that would have only very comic scenes, creating a sufficiently strong and outraged impression among people by now.
On yesterday’s day he must have enlivened the president, presenting the total scene of a middle paralysis with or without. What was seen beyond everything with the press, on the stage of words, not even a few days after the salary had passed, President Berisha said that the government television would truly demonize the government’s depositors and the bankrupt in the most cynical way. And as a result, while the depositors of Sude and “Gjallca” were shaken, those of Vodica(?) and Gjallica received a license. Meanwhile, all depositors, whom people frighten face to face with threats, get their money as the president said, “up to the knees they will be brought down…”
However, from the people alone for the depositors of the “people”, in the way the texts are used, only because of an induced setback and in order to have the chance to be dealt with properly, as Berisha has thought, there was no good outcome. Noon, instead of calming the situation with the president’s statement, on the contrary, was heating it up further. From the leaders of the “Xhaferri” firm came the news that perhaps their payments would begin on the afternoon of February 7. But the opposite was true in practice and in law. On the other hand, the government sent 7,000 troops and army armored vehicles to Vlorë and Gramsh. It is not known what will happen with the possible explosion expected to take place in Vlorë if the firm “Xhaferri” cannot return the larger part of the savings. Perhaps this was perhaps the last proof that is encouraging the perpetuation of such a day of sacrifice. All the alternatives presented by the government clearly seem rotten in the 1 billion dollars. So, from one part forgiven by the state, 52%, and from another part with houses and land, it seems as if the scene were being detached, removing everything from what would include the outraged and perpetuate the heaviest scene.
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Photo: Reuter
Two hours of press conference, Berisha: It’s the Albanians’ fault for having given loans to the pyramids