29/12/1996
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Republika

29 December 1996

“Populli” sponsors the prisoners of Tepelenë

Banks compete with usury schemes. Fast payment methods The usury schemes distribute New Year’s gifts. Here is how three of the VIPs of the usury schemes will spend the holiday

Republicans discuss the statute. Its redrafting is decided

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Prisons under the shackles of numbers. Prisoners’ children sell cigarettes or beg

The press as a friend, or as an enemy of the usury schemes?

For several months now, the bosses of the usury schemes have been at the center of attention of the press and of the entire rest of Albanian public opinion. It is understood that people have formed all kinds of opinions about most of them, generally positive, but not infrequently negative, especially about some of those who have gone bankrupt. Nevertheless, for almost all of them, public opinion goes beyond the bounds of the human, giving in to all kinds of fantasies and superlatives. If the press, with its mission, did not know how to penetrate so boldly into the most hidden corners of their personalities, from discoveries about their economic activity—which are not infrequently dangerous—to the details of their personal lives, for many people the “bosses” might even be demigods, extraterrestrials, fantastical wonders, or who knows what. Continued on p. 4

Traders raised prices by 20% for the New Year

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Prisons under the shackles of numbers. Prisoners’ children sell cigarettes or beg Criminals spy on one another

or beg Criminals spy on one another Page 2 The looting of schools continues. The state: We have no funds to compensate for the damage caused Page 5