SCANDAL / FORMER DIRECTOR WHO SINCE 2009 BLOCKED THE INSPECTORS’ AUDIT TAXES WITHOUT CONTROL Order: 4 years of blockade for the High State Audit High State Audit report: Auditors were repeatedly obstructed. Recommendations: Dismissals for 2 directors and one sector head. 22 employees must return per diem money By LORENC RABETA Since 6 July 2009, the General Directorate of Taxes has refused audits from the High State Audit, causing this administration not to be subject to monitoring. The multi-year blockade has turned into a “cold war” between the Tax Administration and the High State Audit, which since that period has repeatedly requested that the administration submit to audits under the law. “The High State Audit has been repeatedly obstructed by the General Directorate of Taxes, which has not allowed its employees and the Regional Tax Directorates to make available to KLSH auditors the documentation requested by them and deemed necessary for the implementation of audit programs,” reads the latest KLSH report on the tax administration. The failure to make available the documentation requested by KLSH auditors, as a result of the order issued in 2009 by the former director... Continued on page 6

“They gave us more than 100 planes” By FATOS VELIU EDIP OHRI: Enver’s personal plane that we brought from China was hidden in the wheat barn On pages 10-11

“MY DAUGHTER SAW HIM IN A DRESS AND RED LIPSTICK” Rexhep Noka: My son-in-law is ‘gay’, therefore he beats my daughter On page 7

Opinion of the Day By ILIR DHIMA About four years ago, when the former prime minister, Sali Berisha, at a meeting of the Interministerial Committee on Integration called on... “The athlete,” who reaches “records” only with ‘show’ Continued on page 18

Opinion of the Day By KIÇO BLUSHI The whole political tug-of-war between the majority and the opposition so far has focused on the problem that day by day increasingly seems like the main problem: ... Can there be reform without reforming the system? Continued on page 19

MEP: The post of minister to parliament is unnecessary (In the photo): Yesterday’s meeting of the Interparliamentary Committee on Stabilisation and Association. Denion Meidani EU-Albania Committee, Doris Pack: The dismissal of the anti-smuggling director is unfair. Balla: We are glad that the dismissed officials are complaining to you The dismissals in the public administration, new appointments in the State Police, corruption, as well as other decisions by the Rama government sharply confronted the majority and the opposition yesterday at the latest meeting of the Interparliamentary Committee on Stabilisation and Association. For this reason, the rapporteur for Albania... On pages 4-5

MINISTER OF LABOUR On page 9

COMPETITION On page 13

STUDY Luan Malltezi: The Greeks took 2.7 million gold napoleons from the Cham Albanians On pages 16-17

MOVEMENTS IN THE POLICE, 30 APPOINTMENTS IN THE REGIONS MOVEMENTS IN THE POLICE, 30 APPOINTMENTS IN THE REGIONS Berisha’s former bodyguard, Arjan Aldhami, dismissed On page 8