GOVERNMENT EXTENDS PERMITS FOR COMPANIES Rakipi: The inspection found a criminal offense GOVERNMENT EXTENDS PERMITS FOR COMPANIES Oil Minister at the Prosecutor’s Office Rakipi: The inspection found a criminal offense On page 3

Taho Sejko Mustafa Qilimi tells his story Rita Marko threatened me because I had Cham friends Mustafa Qilimi, one of the first communists in the Shkodra Group, political commissar of the partisan formations in the Chamëria region, a jurist and for many years deputy chairman of Albania’s Supreme Court, sheds light on the mystery of the “Cham Group” and the threats made against him by Rita Marko to have him arrested, on the accusation that he was a “friend of the conspirators Sejko, Demi, Resuli” On pages 12-13

On page 17 A few hours with the “sinners” How Albania’s richest village faded away. Maleshovë Special. A few hours with the “sinners”.

Ludmilla and Lida shiver in the Police corridors Two girls dressed in very simple, inexpensive clothes aroused the curiosity of all the police officers who crossed the threshold of the Police Directorate yesterday. Huddled close together to keep warm, the two young women did not look much different from any local woman, had it not been for one of the blue-uniformed officers on duty who revealed that they were Moldovan prostitutes. Their adventure with the capital’s police lasted only the first day; how it will end remains to be seen, since the Moldovans have come of their own accord and want to return… On page 7

paradox Edmond TUPJA For five years now, Aqif Qifa, my neighbour, has been a grandfather; one day his granddaughter, on returning from kindergarten at lunchtime with her healthy, punctual teachers, said to him: “Grandpa, if we have a party, Uncle President and Uncle Prime Minister will come.” Whether he wanted to or not, Aqif Qifa convinced himself that he had to attend that party too, so that the party would not pass him by on account of his granddaughter. In any case, since we are old friends, he also wanted to know what I thought. Because I love children very much, I sided with his granddaughter and begged him not to disappoint her. The next evening, my friend and neighbour knocked at my door. On page 21