Why the original sentencing decision was overturned What is missing? Here are the unresolved points that investigators must clarify: — All the documents included in the case file against defendants Saliu, Tartari and Ahmeti are not originals, but photocopies. — The documents have not been fully investigated to establish whether they were drawn up here or brought ready-made by Arsidi. But even if they were drawn up here, which typewriter were they typed on? The typewriters have not been examined either. — The accounting relations between the Commercial Bank and the State Bank must be clarified. — The circumstances surrounding the issuance of the 1.2-million-dollar bill of exchange, signed by Hoti-Xhyheri and also accepted by defendant Saliu, have not been fully clarified. Why was it not executed like the others? — Official documents are missing to prove that a civil suit was filed with the competent French authorities. — Where was the document signed by Hoti-Xhyheri for the 1.6-million-dollar bill of exchange completed, what was the exact location, and where is the document or its original? — Were Hoti-Xhyheri authorized to sign this bill of exchange? Seal of the National Bank TIRANA — (Ed.La.) — The turnabout in the Arsidi scandal is now official. Following Hoti’s removal from the post of Governor of the Bank of Albania and the arrest of Xhyheri, Director of the National Commercial Bank, the Tirana Court’s ruling sentencing Saliu, Tartari and Ahmeti to 15 years’ imprisonment has also been changed. The Court of Appeal ruled—on the basis of the appeal—that their case must be returned to the Prosecutor’s Office for further investigations to be completed. “I had stated that my clients were innocent,” Sanxhaku, lawyer for Saliu and Tartari, told the newspaper immediately after the success. “With this case now being expanded further, I think everyone will find their place.” The Court of Appeal—which deemed the Tirana Court’s ruling unsupported by law and evidence—decided to return the case to the Prosecutor’s Office, even though just a few days earlier the Tirana Prosecutor’s Office had opened criminal proceedings against Xhyheri. According to the head of the trial panel, Prel Martini, this senior official is now also charged in connection with the discounted bill of exchange worth 1.6 million dollars. All that remains is to join Xhyheri’s case with that of defendants Saliu, Tartari and Ahmeti, and to disclose the names of other people against whom the Prosecutor’s Office has only just begun criminal proceedings. Thus the investigation into the Arsidi scandal is beginning again. i- Xhихëri regarding the bill of exchange for 1.6 million dollars: what is the specific location, and where is the handwritten document or original? — Were the hoteliers authorized to sign this bill of exchange?

AID SCANDAL / Investigations resume with the mission to Rome New evidence sought against Nano EDMOND LACI TIRANA — Three senior officials from the Albanian Prosecutor’s Office are going to Italy. Among those scheduled to leave today for the country where investigations into the aid scandal are continuing are Fatos Dervishi—the investigator assigned to Nano—and Arben Qeleshi, Prosecutor of Tirana. The Albanian investigators have a major task: the Tirana Court—having once again sent the case against defendants Nano, Plaka, Gjini and Allkja back for further investigation on Tuesday—has asked the Prosecutor’s Office to approach the Italian state authorities as well, in search of new evidence. This will also require contacting former employees of the Italian Embassy in Albania, including former ambassador Torquato Cardilli and Giuseppe Perniola, administrator of Levant Co., the Bari-based company at the center of the scandal. But that is not all: the necessary statements are also missing from numerous Italian officials at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs who dealt with the aid granted to Albania by their government. Furthermore, according to the Court, the Prosecutor’s Office must take action and make contact with the Inspection and Supervision Company of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which Fatos Nano has claimed is an organization that monitors not only tenders, quantities and types of goods, but also their prices. This is a heavy assignment for the Albanian prosecutors, who may leave tonight to seek new documents and testimony together with their Italian colleague, Evelina Canale. These are seven tasks that led the Tirana Court to reject the fast-track trial of Nano and three other people accused alongside him. The most important ones, naturally, concern Italy. “It is impossible for the Nano case to be handled solely by our authorities,” Agim Tirana, one of his lawyers, told the newspaper. “Unless there is cooperation between the Albanian and Italian investigators, this trial will never end.” This lawyer was the first to describe the two investigative tasks: “Returning the case for further investigation is, first and foremost, a success for Albanian justice.” Former Prime Minister Fatos Nano Why the investigations are insufficient According to the Court’s ruling, the investigations must be completed by: • Expanding the list of eyewitnesses to include Arben Alia, Pajtim Ajazi, Bajram Xhaja, Edi Vesho, Hajdin Sejdia, Giuseppe Perniola, and former employees of the Italian Embassy in Albania such as Torquato Cardilli, as well as officials of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs who dealt with aid granted to Albania. • Re-questioning Ramiz Alia, Shkëlqim Cani, Ridvan Qarri, Adil Qarçani and Lutfì Aliaj. • Holding confrontations between witnesses, as well as between witnesses and defendants. • Taking action and making contact with the Inspection and Supervision Company at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. • Preparing expert reports to determine the amounts for which the defendants are accused, and clarifying their actions and the reasons for their cooperation. • Resolving the competing versions: whether this concerns abuse of office or embezzlement, and whether there was merely cooperation between the defendants or whether they constituted an organized group. • Does the Prosecutor’s Office’s separation of the Farudin Hoxha case affect the trial? • Clarifying more precisely the evidence of cooperation between defendants Fatos Nano and Sokrat Plaka. se se foreign Italian [people], who have been involved in helping them.

The Papandreou government continues to protest TIRANA — Dialogue between Albania and Greece is making no progress and the crisis—instead—risks escalating. On Wednesday evening, the Greek government decided to summon its ambassador in Tirana, Kristos Stalikis, and the consul in Gjirokastër to Athens for consultations. The decision, announced by a Greek government spokesperson, continues an exchange of formal protests over recent incidents along the border. The ambassador’s summons—which in the diplomatic world amounts to a very strong protest—came at the end of a meeting that concluded with a message referring to the Greek minority in the south of the country. In Parliament, Thoma Mico, a deputy from the Human Rights Party, accused the Delvinë police of using violence, while acknowledging that the government in Tirana had no discriminatory intent. According to unconfirmed reports circulating in the morning, minor clashes also occurred in the Delvinë area between members of the minority and the police, with several people sustaining minor injuries. In the evening, news then arrived that Ambassador Stalikis had been summoned. This is the first political crisis between the two countries since Andreas Papandreu took office as Prime Minister. In his programmatic speech, he had promised to open a dialogue with Albania, on condition that the rights of the Greek minority were respected. Last week three Albanian undocumented migrants were found dead in the border area, near Ersekë, but the Athens government blamed the Greek guards for the incident.

TIRANA (p.re.) — The sale prices of some raw materials, spare parts and machinery brought to Albania as aid or loans from international organizations such as the European Community and the World Bank, as well as from individual countries, will be reduced. This is one of the decisions taken at the latest meeting of the Council of Ministers, on the basis of a draft law submitted by the Ministry of Finance and Economy. For some time, a situation had been developing in this area that was as surprising as it was troubling. A considerable quantity of raw materials, ranging from glass to flour, imported as aid or loans to restart industry, has remained in stock. Albanian enterprises, financially weak, have been unable to afford the sale prices. They have managed to meet some of their needs for these raw materials through the private or state-owned trade sector, where prices have been lower. With this decision, the Government transfers part of the revenue it receives from aid to enterprises and enables stocks to circulate by making their prices more competitive.

Initial figures for the first five months of ’93 TIRANA (p.re.) — Albanian emigration continues, perhaps even at a faster pace than a year ago. According to a study conducted in Tirana by the Institute of Statistics, 1,722 people emigrated during the first five months of 1993 alone, while 3,084 people had emigrated from the capital during 1992. The reason for this tendency to leave the country continues to be the inability to find work, as well as the still-low incomes of many Albanian families. According to the Institute of Statistics, Tirana has 5,502 low-income families, described as being below the economic subsistence threshold, comprising around 12,441 people, as well as 651 poor families with 1,143 people. The vast majority of these people emigrate individually in a variety of ways, because organized emigration—which many Albanians had pinned their hopes on—continues at a low rate. The acute unemployment problems facing almost all of Europe’s developed countries today offer little hope of positive changes in the future. Indeed, some of these countries are sending alarming signals about the repatriation of existing migrants. Nevertheless, efforts to organize emigration have not ceased. The Ministry of Labour and Emigration has managed, from time to time, to send small groups of emigrants in an organized manner to work in various countries.

Everyone dreams when they sleep. This is an exceptionally normal fact, except that sometimes these dreams are so beautiful or so bad that they leave you astonished and irritated when you wake up. But dreams can also be “warning signs,” that is, they may contain a premonition, a warning of what might happen in the future. Every week, “Gazeta Shqiptare” offers its readers explanations and the meaning of the objects and situations most often dreamed about. Psychological interpretation: This is a dream often seen by children who visit the zoo. It unleashes in children a fantasy connected with the world of animals and adventures. It rarely happens among adults; we need to feel protected, to keep our emotions in check. At other times, we feel a kind of pity for animals in cages, which triggers the feeling of being trapped in a cage by a difficult situation. Psychological interpretation: On a psychological level, the worm points to an already existing state of anxiety, which continues for a long time even after we wake up. This image also symbolizes a feeling of being trapped when faced with something we have said. Psychological interpretation: A veil hides a truth: if we are covered by a veil, we express our desire to keep a secret, to conceal our true selves. But if we see other people covered by a veil, it means that we have doubts about their sincerity. DRUNK Psychological interpretation: In general, this dream expresses dissatisfaction, uncertainty, and difficulty being independent, whether the person dreaming is drunk or other people are drunk. BIRD Psychological interpretation: The bird represents everything connected with the immaterial. Often in our dreams, birds symbolize something related to desires, thoughts, and memories: a “flying” creature flapping its wings inside a room without managing to get out symbolizes an idea that cannot leave our mind. EARTH Psychological interpretation: It is the opposite substance of the spirit: the body of which we are all made. In psychoanalytical terms, the earth is a feminine symbol in all its aspects, positive and negative: it is what produces, what nourishes, but also what destroys and suffocates. It may represent a drive toward aggression. We must therefore consider all the elements of the dream in order to interpret this symbol, which is so rich in meaning. To exchange [unclear] beneath the earth expresses our desire to dive within ourselves; digging the earth with one’s hands, on the other hand, is a dream with a strong erotic charge and expresses a person’s sexual desire to [unclear] and [unclear] expresses the desire to appropriate femininity.

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USE OF ELECTRICITY IN HOUSEHOLDS MAY BE RESTRICTED — Measures may also be taken to limit electricity use by households and industrial consumers, declared Abdyl Xhaja, Minister of Industry, Mineral Resources and Energy. He said this at a meeting of the Council of Ministers. He said that this reduction—which, as a result of the figures, has occurred more than once a year—has created another situation, and that as far as electricity is concerned the country is in a very difficult position for consumers with problems who use it for energy purposes. At the “Furra e Drinit” they are able to cover part of these restrictions. Since the Fier power plant is being used to meet these needs, it will incur losses of around 200 million lekë per month; month. AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT PROJECT TO INTERVENE IN SCHOOLS IN SHKODËR AND THE WESTERN REGION CONTINUES — The second phase in the northern region is due to begin. The Austrian government is supporting schools through a project for the northern part of the country. The aim of the first phase is to develop support for schools in a selected area, in addition to the large city schools. The second phase of this project will take place in Albania and support schools in the north of the country. MINISTRY OF ... SECRETARY GJERGJ VIZION AFRI KEMI E TË — At the ministry ...