State officials under the anti-corruption microscope
Anyone who lies will be punished: huge fines and confiscation
The project for checking assets reaches the Government. Financial accounting from the President down to public employees
The state will begin injecting the anti-corruption "vaccine" into its own veins. It is a draft decision - it has just reached the desks of all ministers and is expected to be approved very soon, perhaps at the next meeting, by the Government - which will take on the task of protecting state officials from the dangerous virus. The document defines all categories of heads and state employees who, within the first three months of this year, will be required to declare before special commissions the assets accumulated up to the end of 1995
Andrea Stefani on page 3
"Omonia" greets Berisha
GJIROKASTËR
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Anti-genocide: Court orders arrest for the "five"
Only Lenka Çuko and Sulejman Bushati under house arrest
TIRANA - Yesterday they answered for the first time to the accusation before the court. The five arrested from "Antigenocidi" finally learned where they will have to wait for the trial brought against them by the charges currently hanging over them. Ultimately house-bound: Lenka Çuko and Sulejman Bushati will stay at home. The court has deemed it appropriate to impose house arrest on both.
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Sulejman Bushati, one of the detainees, yesterday in court
Marathon confrontation over the "Dervishi case"
A heated debate between the parties yesterday
TIRANA - A heated debate yesterday between the leaders of the Federation and representatives of the Ministry... with no concrete result. Yesterday, in a marathon meeting, the views of both sides were confronted regarding the accusations stemming from an inspection by the Ministry of Culture. The Ministry-Federation confrontation is still pending because the discussion has not yet led to any concrete conclusion. At the center of it were the problems arising from the inspection carried out by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports and the status that the Federation itself should have.
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Eduart Dervishi
Durrës: Fake seals cause a customs scandal
DURRËS - A smuggling network within the Durrës Customs office. A collection of fake stamps from various Italian customs declarations, used to duplicate the real ones, was discovered on Thursday in the offices of four agencies located in the Port of Durrës. Their representatives are under accusation, as are the companies and merchants who carried out transactions through these agencies. The operation against customs forgers erupted at midday. Police officers raided the shipping agencies' offices located at the entrance to the ferry square in the Port of Durrës.
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Durrësi
House at risk of collapse
- Every day is a 24-hour period lived in fear that from one moment to the next tragedy will strike... the ground will begin to slide, the houses, built with so much effort, will collapse and many residents of Lezhë will be left on the street. This is the life faced every day by 21 families in the "Varosh" neighborhood in Lezhë. The early signs of danger are now evident. Five houses have become completely uninhabitable, while several others have begun to show serious early damage.
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Kapshticë customs cleared out
KORÇË
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Killed in self-defense, released in court
SHKODËR
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"The Kombinat is our goal"
ELBASAN - Metallurgy is PAD's goal if it comes to power. According to Ceka, the leader of the Alliance, the workers and engineers of the country's largest plant are included. According to Ceka, the Metallurgy plant is one of the most important parts of Albanian industrial identity. The PAD leader said that for a long time everything has been done at a loss and must be renovated at all costs.
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"With the super lotto money, a house for my mother"
INTERVIEW
The winner of 50 million speaks
KUÇOVË - Blind fate has fallen on the brother of a clown and his friends; he never believed he would win anything from a game of chance. He is simple, yet here he is, suddenly wealthy, a man who has won not just a little but 50 million old lekë. One of the two winners of last week's super lotto of the football lottery расска tells his new "adventure".
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Kapexhiu: "The famous? Everyone, except in caricature"
INTERVIEW
The politicians' "joker" speaks
TIRANA - "If a personality or a public figure contributes through the pen of a caricaturist, that is something valuable. Caricaturists do not deal with worthless things." This is what Bujar Kapexhiu told Gazeta Shqiptare on the eve of the publication of his caricature book "Tranzicion". From election to election. A work of around 100 drawings that will present various themes and phenomena, figures from politics, culture and Albanian art from the period '91-'95.
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Meta in the minority area
Gjirokastër
- The leadership of the Socialist Party has arrived in southern Albania. "The refugees from shpat[a]re?greqi[?] have been left out of the vote and this has been done intentionally by the current government of the Democratic Party." So claimed Ilir Meta. The deputy chairman of the Socialist Party at the meeting with southerners. A meeting announced on the eve of the conferences that the party's local branches are due to hold soon.
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"Çimento" accuses "Albpetrol"
Elbasan, the leaders complain
ELBASAN - Strange actions by Albpetrol. A change in the destination of its products has caused surprise among the managers of the cement factories in Elbasan and Fush Krujë. To solve the problem, the export of coke was requested by the Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy, Edmond Xhaja.
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A village prey to robbers
LEZHË
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Schumi ad for NIKE
ROME - A super-million contract for German Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher. While he continued testing for the next world championship in Le Castellet in southern France, Heinz Blüching[?], his son, told journalists about the breathtaking contract of the world champion: 16.5 billion lire (about 11 million dollars) a year for the giant sports footwear and apparel company "Nike".
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Chechnya: the hostage adventure
From the world
TIRANA - Chechen fighters holding around 200 hostages in a village in southern Russia vowed today to fight "until the last bullet," Moscow is reported to be refusing to withdraw the army and will not allow them to go to Chechnya. The fighters attacked the town of Kizlyar in Dagestan on Tuesday, seizing a hospital and taking around 2,000 hostages, and are demanding safe passage across the border to their homeland.
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Today: super crossword
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Restaurant-Pizzeria Ujvara
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gastronomi speciale-orientale
fresh Italian pasta
quality and service
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Rruga Gjin Bue Shpata Tiranë (near the Dinamo stadium)
