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

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

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

HERE ARE THE NEW CHANGES IN THE LAW On page 13

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

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

A PART OF THE MONEY IS LOST On page 7

EXCLUSIVE Jakup Krasniqi: President? I’m seriously considering it On page 24

ROAD OF THE NATION PROBLEMS Floods, Meta: We will start exporting energy On pages 14-17