LAWSUIT YASSIN KADI DEMANDS 15 BILLION LEK IN COMPENSATION FROM THE ALBANIAN STATE The Arab businessman, mentioned in Albania and the U.S. as a financier of terrorism, claims that the state mismanaged his seized assets ► PAGE 13
By LINDITA ÇELA In 2001, Arab businessman Yassin Kadi lost the business empire he had built in the mid-1990s in Albania, after his name was included in the black list of the United Nations as a terrorism financier. Fifteen years later, Kadi has ‘de jure’ cleared his name through
Arab Yasin Kadi sues Albania The man accused of financing “Al Qaeda” takes the government to court over property In 2012, the UN removed him from the blacklist as a terror financier. The state returned the 20 apartments in the Twin Towers. The lawsuit in court: They were mismanag