The businessman offered a bribe to the minister THE AMERICAN EXPERT FINDS ANOTHER RECORDING IN THE LISTENING DEVICE The Task Force will investigate the VIP who tries to corrupt Dritan Prifti over the concession of a hydropower plant. The conversation was deleted before the device was handed over to the prosecutor’s office By KLODIANA LALA A third video has been discovered, recorded by the former Minister of Economy, Trade and Energy, Dritan Prifti, in which corruption affairs are discussed. The video, which has become the subject of an investigation by the specialized Task-Force Unit at the Tirana Prosecutor’s Office, was discovered by the American expert in the devices handed over by the former minister Prifti, with which he had recorded the conversation between him and Ilir Meta. While it was previously made public that the American expert who was to verify the authenticity, and not the content, of the much-discussed Meta-Prifti video had also uncovered a second video, in which Dritan Prifti appeared with his former subordinate Leonard Beqiri and a sum of 70 thousand euros, nothing was said about the third video, which brings another scandal to light. Prosecutorial sources confirm the existence of the video and say that it shows the former Minister of Economy, Dritan Prifti, and an unknown mafia businessman from the country. The latter, while speaking with Prifti, intervenes with the minister... Continues on page 7

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