Last Updated: January 19, 2026
Aliases
Skender EJYLBEGAJ
Nationality
Albania
DoB
1964-04-01
Address
Elbasan, Albania
Official reason
Aqif Rakipi (Rakipi) is a notorious former Member of Parliament from Elbasan, Albania, who has a damaging and destabilizing influence on political processes in Albania. Multiple organized crime groups (OCGs) in Albania have offered money, gifts, or promises for jobs or concessions in return for votes for their preferred political party. Rakipi has ...
Other Information
Date of listing
2022-04-11
Authority
US
Program
Executive Order 14033 Blocking Property and Suspending Entry into the United States of Certain Persons Contributing to the Destabilizing Situation in the Western Balkans
Regime
OFAC country specific
Target State
Western Balkans
Measures
Blocking Property, Suspending Entry
Official Information
On June 8, 2021, pursuant to, inter alia, IEEPA, the President issued E.O. 14033. In E.O. 14033, the President expanded the scope of the national emergency declared in E.O. 13219, as amended in E.O. 13304, finding that the situation in the territory of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Albania (the Western Balk...
Additional Details
SDN
Program URL
1.https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/06/10/2021-12382/blocking-property-and-suspending-entry-into-the-united-states-of-certain-persons-contributing-to-the 2.https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/08/executive-order-on-blocking-property-and-suspending-entry-into-the-united-states-of-certain-persons-contribu...