“Meta-Prifti”, re-expertise rejected DRITAN PRIFTI: I WILL TESTIFY, BUT I HAVE NO HOPE FOR JUSTICE The experts answer questions at the Supreme Court: We cannot say that the video is fabricated, but our margin of error is absolutely zero By KLODIANA LALA The Albanian experts stood by their report on the Meta-Prifti video, which they described as non-authentic. Yesterday the experts, Ardian Pollo, Ermal Beqiri and Artur Brahmani, answered the questions posed by the General Prosecutor’s Office and the defense lawyers of former deputy prime minister Ilir Meta. As in the previous report and in yesterday’s hearing, the experts said that there are many interventions in the video and that the conversation between Meta and Prifti is incomprehensible in many parts, because the level of noise and interference is very high. The prosecutors had asked the experts, since in their report they had stated that they could not prove whether the clock object of the expertise is the device with which the recording of the conversation was made. Do you think that, nevertheless, the recording device may have been installed in some clock, regardless of the fact that one hears its ticking throughout the entire time or not?... Continues on pages 2-3

Opinion of the Day Opinion of the Day By KLODIAN GRADEC[*] There are thousands of cases where splits are a lever system for raising funds in cash or political capital,” would cite American Senator Tom Coburn. ... Continues on page 22 Why doesn’t the status quo change

Opinion of the Day Opinion of the Day By KIÇO BLUSHI At the last meeting of the Tirana Municipality, the novice mayor Lul Basha, after every remark from the opposition, repeated the same refrain: “Let’s not get into... Continues on page 23 “Let’s see money first!”

INTERVIEW/ Tonin Tërshana: How Petrit Dume saved me Festival winner of the 11th edition: The sentence deprived me of Eurovision (In photo): The well-known singer Tonin Tërshana with his little daughter Donatela. Tonin Tërshana singing in one of the RTSH Festivals “When I came from Shkodra to Tirana, I slept by the crates of a fruit-and-vegetable shop in the center, somewhere behind the bank. I covered myself with crates because I was afraid of a dog or a policeman” In ’72 I competed with “Kur vjen pranvera” and they told us that we would go to the European Festival. Ferdinand Deda was the first to shake my hand. Since ’97 I have been living in Greece On pages 16-17

REFORM, OSCE: DECISIVE STEP CONSENSUS BETWEEN PD AND PS, THE COMPOSITION OF THE PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE IS MADE PUBLIC On pages 4-5

FUEL, DAMAGE 2.6 MILLION LEK FUEL, DAMAGE 2.6 MILLION LEK Smuggling, wiretaps lead 10 people to handcuffs On page 10

REGISTRATION Builders: Mortgages, free up to 2 billion euros On pages 8-9

THE DOCTORS SPEAK Specialists: diabetes, how to prevent the disease On page 11

CORRUPTION IN FIER Abuses in education, residents of 4 villages protest On page 15

ETLEVA DEDA LEAVES, SANDER SIMONI ARRIVES ETLEVA DEDA LEAVES, SANDER SIMONI ARRIVES KLD, 6 hours meeting, 15 judges moved On page 10