After a Mother Jones Investigation, a Right-Wing Albanian Party Attacks

[Hermit-The-Prog]

And the Russian embassy there calls the magazine part of a “dirty news campaign”

Hannah Levintova Mar. 8, 2018

On Tuesday, Mother Jones published a lengthy investigation about a mysterious Russian-linked firm that hired a former Trump campaign aide named Nick Muzin to work in the United States to help the right-wing Democratic Party of Albania during the country’s 2017 parliamentary elections. The story zeroed in on Biniatta Trade, a Scotland-based shell company that paid Muzin $150,000, and perhaps more, to help the DPA and its chairman, Lulzim Basha. According to corporate filings in the United Kingdom, the two Belize-based shell companies that created Biniatta Trade were linked to other firms controlled by Russian nationals. It was a complicated trail, and here’s a chart to help explain what Mother Jones uncovered:



The bottom-line question was this: Did Russians use the political system in the US to meddle in Albanian politics?

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/after-a-mother-jones-investigation-a-right-wing-albanian-party-attacks/

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1. What a tangled web!