The charge of “abuse of office” is filed against the Elbasan police chief According to Article 248 of the Penal Code, he faces a sentence of at least a fine and at most up to 7 years in prison Fine and up to 7 years in prison for a high-ranking official under the accusation of “abuse of office”. Page 5

USA: Crime floods Albania PAGE 3 EDITORIAL ALBANIA, THE MAFIA'S ELDORADO Prime Minister Ilir Meta asked the government of Tirana [?] to monitor the recent movements through which dangerous pyrotechnic materials are trafficked, along with accusations against the opposition of Berisha, from 80 thousand tons all the way to the city, some distance from the capital. The most shameful thing has been the noisy uproar of today, which since last night has taken shape in statements from TIR. Railways in a series of slanders and fabrications in the press, which apparently are generating, amid all this, services that day by day have turned Tirana's streets into a peaceful Bosnia, like Tirana in '97. It is clear that the purpose of all this is to justify the “prestigious strong voice” of the “Albanian administration” and, on the outside, to allow a European, with the world's common house, not to lose sleep over such trafficking, but a declaration by the Prime Minister himself that his health and life are being seriously threatened. The governance of the Consensus state in Albania has had the suppression of order and the state at the center of its activity. Ilir Meta has reminded the eight ministries that his government must do its duty better, but above all order and security must be “at the proper level.” Since, with the exception of the police, which is strictly controlled by a minister excluded from Albania and from the basements of yesterday, especially while asleep over appropriation and theft, it has become with one volume and the same and more visible, “for slander from the government of Ilir Meta,” or rather, due to excess, there is still the possibility of an achievement in the fight against organized crime. It is not known whether this “mighty-minded” prime minister does this consciously or through deliberate activity. Besides having to shamefully leave the terrain of the black neighborhoods, twenty meters away, as we say in a smoke-filled office, as in 1999 more than ten objects of great value belonging to an individual were discovered. Meanwhile, in the center of Tirana, the head of an illegal network on a scale as large as an entire year was openly executed. The truths of the units, the revelations, murders, car bombs, kidnappings, violence, trafficking and emergencies are daily phenomena in the only Albanian metropolis. More and more, Albania is being identified in the West as a mafia Eldorado.

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