The West: One billion USD over 5 years Emergency aid promised to repair the infrastructure The Nano government passes its test before Europe. Brussels is expected to finalize the figures. World Bank: You may receive even more than was promised in Rome The Albanian government is promised 12 million dollars for emergency needs. Another 100 million will be disbursed by March. 1.5 billion over the next five years ROME - Nano gets the green light from Rome. “The money is ready; Brussels just has to decide.” A sum of 12 million dollars will be provided for emergency needs, another 100 million by March, while the sum of 1.5 billion dollars will be disbursed over the next five years. Yesterday Nano received a positive signal regarding the provision of aid. The promised amount is expected to be confirmed next Wednesday in Brussels. The donors’ meeting will determine the exact figures that will help Albania’s devastated economy. World Bank Vice President Johannes Linn has said that the figures could increase. On page 5

TIRANA - How did the famous pyramid schemes work? After suffering losses, everyone has understood that in a game it is impossible for everyone to be a winner. The rise of the pyramid schemes began with a game called “Fitorja”. With 9,000 lekë, you could enter this game, which promised you 3 million at the end. But to climb from the first level of the Pyramid to its top, you had to find 4 other people. Then each of them had to find 4 more people, and so on. The more participants you had below you, the closer you got to the top of the pyramid. On page 3 Sudja

Forensic doctor: “20 days to identify the bodies” TIRANA - Today the first tests will be carried out to raise the Victims of Otranto from the seabed. The Italian team will go aboard “The performer” to test how they will proceed to bring the wreck to the surface. Meanwhile, only one Albanian will assist on Sunday, or Monday morning, during the raising of “Il Kateriti i Rades”. It will be Skënder Dule, the representative of the Ministry of Defense, who will assist at the historic event. On page 6 The robot that identified the ship sunk in Otranto

50 people from Shkodër caught LEZHË - Another smuggling spot has been discovered. After being checked by Albanian police in Velipojë, the traffickers decided to unload their goods at Tale in Lezhë. The police of this city thus spotted 50 people from Shkodër, who later confirmed to the police that they were heading to Tale to unload a ship carrying contraband cigarettes. In fact, the ship was unable to reach the port of Tale, as those on board may have been alerted from shore that the police were on alert in these parts too. On page 6

DP, Tirana branch assembly TIRANA - Berisha launches a fierce attack on Meidani. “He has bowed to Gligorov and has done nothing for the Albanians.” In a speech he delivered yesterday at the Tirana Branch Conference, the DP leader spared no accusations against the current head of state. “His life will be just as short as that of the gangs of Çerrik,” Berisha said, according to whom Albania is now threatened by a series of Balkan nationalisms that are clinging to its body. He also sharply criticized the Nano Government and its foreign policy. On page 2

An original way to take one’s own life LEZHË - A tragic end for the attacker who targeted the villa of the former Laç chief of criminal investigations. At two in the morning, after covering his body with mines, Agustin Gjoni, 27, from Zajmja in Lezhë, killed himself. His body was found mangled by his family, who had heard the powerful explosion in a corner of the yard. “There had been constant threats and pressure,” one family member said. “So this may have been one of the reasons for the suicide. He had heard that they were being held hostage by Mijo Çela, one of his friends, and such threats had also reached Agustin.” Gjoni was one of the four planners of the terrorist attack on the villa, which was associated with the former Laç chief of criminal investigations, Mijo Çela. All four were from villages in Lezhë and had undertaken to blow up the building. As far as is known, he had loaded several weapons with mines, as well as several other weapons. The Selim brothers also died in the explosion; they were guarding their brother during the night, but in this case the [?] had been sent to carry out the attack by a powerful gang leader, while the former head of criminal investigations himself had sought revenge. Agustin Gjoni decided to kill himself after he had been held hostage for 20 days, along with another accomplice in the crime. a.b.

Italian Foreign Minister Dini, the protagonist of yesterday’s meeting in Rome

The Rome meeting concludes. The Prime Minister gives his word: We will shut down the pyramid schemes

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