TIRANA, December 20 – The General Administrator of Konfindustria, Gjergj Buxhuku, has warned that the fiscal amnesty is a high-risk adventure for Albania as the law is insufficient and it is an opportunity for money laundering.
“The connection to money laundering is 100%, this is a word for the word apology. And in this case, the money that is not formal is forgiven with a special law like the days of punishment in prison are forgiven,” said Buxhuku in a talk show on News24 TV on Tuesday.
According to him, the system that was introduced in 1882 was not perfect and citizens could not act like European citizens.
“We are in a system that is prey to the profound changes of these decades. This confusion, the deformation of the laws, have created reasonable problems because a large number of Albanians created stocks of money that they could not formalize at the beginning,” he said. “The variables are very complicated in this case to assess whether the amnesty is valid or not for Albania. This exceeds the moral part. There are external and internal factors when such a sensitive decision is made,” Buxhuku said.
He said that the law is insufficient, and in his view it’s being dealt with an adventure, a very high risk.
“The amnesty law greatly exceeds the sovereignty of the country. It is impossible for Albania to take such a decision without the approval of the partner countries for two reasons, the first is that the country has signed the treaties of European countries and we are a candidate country for the EU. The second is that when we talk about amnesty, we are dealing with sums of money that we think have the potential to be laundered in our partner countries. So it is impossible to develop a fiscal amnesty without the approval of these countries,” said the General Administrator. of Konfindustria, Gjergj Buxhuku. /Argumentum.al
