Republican congressman Lee Zeldin has asked the US State Department for access to information and the process that brought Secretary Antony Blinken to ban former Albanian President Sali Berisha and his family from entering the United States over allegations of “significant corruption”.
Albanian Top Channel television station showed a copy of the request on Tuesday.
It follows exchanges on the issue between the congressman and Blinken during an online meeting of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, in which Zeldin asked Blinken whether he could share with the Congress and the media specific information that prompted him to take the decision.
Blinken replied that the case against Berisha at the State Department developed through the normal process, and that specific information could be provided upon request, in compliance with legal requirements.
Zeldin also asked Blinken whether he had discussed Berisha’s ban with George Soros, which the top US diplomat denied.
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