Fazlic complains of Albanian media’s ‘bad press’ coverage

TIRANA, Oct 7 – Damir Fazlic, the Serb-Bosnian businessman who was said to have been detained and then released for alleged corruptive business ways in cigarette trade, complained of the Albanian media coverage of the event.
Speaking Monday in London in an interview to the private television station Top Channel Fazlic, 33, denied he had been arrested by the Bosnian police. He acknowledged he had been in London in the last 3-4 days.
Fazlic was detained by Bosnian police last weekend in Sarajevo after which he flied to London.
Fazlic also accepted that he had many companies registered in Albania considering himself an investor in the country.
The businessman also said that he had hired Foreign Minister Lulzim Basha’s brother-in-law as a manager of one of his companies in Albania. That relation was over at the moment.
Fazlic said that he considered Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha as one of his good friends but denied he had exploited that relation to profit in his businesses.
“I believe laws in Albania are enough for any foreign investor to hold a business without being a friend to the premier or other ministers,” he said.