LIRI BERISHA’S AUCTION WITH ICONS FROM THE BLACK MARKET
SCANDAL!/ G.SH INVESTIGATION: SHPATARAKU’S WORK, SOLD FOR 75 THOUSAND EUROS, WITHOUT CERTIFICATES
Rubens Shima, director of the Arts Gallery, is silent. The Ministry of Culture is alarmed. Shpataraku collector Gjergji Thimio: Only I have it certified; the one for charity is “smuggled”
By ADMIRINA PEÇI FATMIRA NIKOLLI
It may be a smuggled work, from the black market, the much-discussed icon by Kostandin Shpataraku, which was bought for 75 thousand euros at the charity auction on 4 October by the Kosovar businessman living in Croatia, Hetem Ramadani. The object, of a special category, appears to be registered and catalogued at the National Inventory Center. After Gazeta’s investigation, we learned all the data of Shpataraku’s work, which had been kept completely secret until yesterday....
Continues on pages 2-3
Sulo Gradeci: To testify against Enver Hoxha? A foolish aim
The diary of the former dictator’s personal security chief is uncovered
(In the photo:) Sulo Gradeci, former chief of Enver Hoxha’s Security (left) Sulo Gradeci and Enver Hoxha
At the age of 88, the former chief of Hoxha’s security for 30 years decides to speak about his prison in democracy: When they came to my house for the confiscation, I told them to take Enver’s books
Sulo Gradeci is arrested in July 1992: No man’s mother will have the courage to throw handcuffs on me in my house. He recounts his days in the cell, how he asked for a wristwatch and a pencil and paper
On pages 22-23
Ina Rama gathers the Task Force on the mafia, Bregu: I answer for my family
The chief prosecutor asks for the allegations to be clarified
Minister of Integration: The accusations against me, a defamation lawsuit against the PS leader, Edi Rama
By KLODIANA LALA
The long-distance accusations of corruption from the two sides of Albanian politics brought Chief Prosecutor Ina Rama together in a face-to-face meeting with the heads of the Task-Force units. For more than two hours, after being informed of the detailed analysis regarding what has been done so far on the cases under investigation, the head of the central prosecution office asked her subordinates..
On pages 4-5
THE GOVERNMENT STEPS BACK, LEGALIZATION OF BUILDINGS MAY BE HALTED
HERE ARE THE NEW CHANGES IN THE LAW
On page 13
The truth in Putin’s time
Yesterday in “Wall Street Journal”
BY ROBERT ORTTUNG CHRISTOPHER WALKER
Four years ago, investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya was brutally executed in the elevator of the building where she lived, in the Russian capital, Moscow...
The truth in Putin’s time
Continues on page 28
The inferiority complex
Opinion of the Day
By KIÇO BLUSHI
An old friend, a journalist, wrote to me these days from the USA: “...About a month ago, President Obama came here to Michigan....”
The inferiority complex
Continues on page 29
USA: No aid for Albania, regret for the opposition
A PART OF THE MONEY IS LOST
On page 7
Jakup Krasniqi: President? I’m seriously considering it
EXCLUSIVE
Jakup Krasniqi:
President?
I’m seriously considering it
On page 24
Floods, Meta: We will start exporting energy
ROAD OF THE NATION PROBLEMS
Floods,
Meta: We will start exporting
energy
On pages 14-17
