21.05.2021 – 10:03
The identification of Mr. Berisha by Secretary of State Antony Blinken as a person barred from entering the United States for high-level corruption is based on the Anti-Kleptocracy and Human Rights Clause, as referred to in Article 7031 (c) of the law. for State Department Financing, Overseas Operations and Related Programs.
This clause aims to fight corruption as well as support human rights by targeting foreign actors, corrupt or involved in human rights violations, who are denied US visas. Based on this clause, Congress urges the Secretary of State to prevent foreign officials from entering the United States, for whom the US Secretary of State has credible information that “they have been directly or indirectly involved in corruption at the level of high, including corruption related to the use of natural resources, or involvement in serious human rights violations ”.
The clause provides for visa denial sanctions for the relatives of the official in question. Measures sanctifying corrupt foreign officials or those involved in serious human rights violations have their origins in the 2008 law, but over the years Congress has made other amendments, including specifying in 2015 that officials targeted can also be publicly identified by the Secretary of State.
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24 hours after being acquainted with the decision signed by the US Secretary of State, the former Prime Minister of Albania, Sali Berisha, announced that he will pursue a legal battle against Mr. Antony Blinken personally. Berisha announced that he has hired a French lawyer to pursue the case in a neutral EU country. From the simple search made on the network, the French lawyer hired by Berisha is ranked as one of the best in France for criminal cases. Jean Yves Le Borgne, 71, heads the French Bar Association, and has defended in the country’s courts many high-ranking political figures such as the former mayor of Paris, Jean Tiberi, the former director of the cabinet of Jacques Chirac, businessmen of as well as former Renault boss, entrepreneur Carlos Ghosn.
He is considered politically in France as a left-leaning goal scorer and has several times attempted to enter politics. It is not yet known how he will defend the case of an Albanian citizen who accuses a member of an American cabinet in a third country like France. Described as one of the country’s best criminalists, 70-year-old Le Borgne, born a philosopher, turned to jurisprudence only in the 1970s, and mostly in the role of pedagogue. It was not until the 1990s that his name became widely known as a trade lawyer, having failed in politics as the leader of a small party, the Union of the Republican Center (L’Union Centriste Républicaine), although he himself as a left goal scorer.
