The US declares Ylli Ndroqi and Aqif Rakipi non grata

TIRANA, April 11 – Albanian businessman Ylli Ndroqi and former Socialist MP Aqif Rakipi have been declared non grata by the United States of America.
The news was announced by the US Embassy in Albania in a statement to the media on Monday.
According to the US, Aqif Rakipi is a notorious former MP from Elbasan, Albania, who has a detrimental and destabilizing influence on the political processes in Albania.
The announcement said in the meantime that Ylli Ndroqi is a media owner, whose assets were seized by the Albanian government in 2020 and 2021 for previous criminal activities.
Ndroqi, according to the US Embassy, ​​has used the media that were previously under his control to extort and blackmail Albanian citizens through demands for money and the purchase of advertisements in exchange for not publishing negative articles in the media. /argumentum.al