Head of compensation, Lek Hajdari: By June they will have been distributed Government: The second installment, within the week Head of compensation, Lek Hajdari: By June they will have been distributed FORMERLY PERSECUTED PERSONS Government: The second installment, within the week “The lists will be published every two weeks in the media. The beneficiaries’ chronology since 2009 will be strictly respected and we will correct files with errors” By LORENC RABETA The postponement of the second compensation installment for former political prisoners begins this week and will end in June of this year. In an interview with “Gazeta Shqiptare,” Lek Hajdari, head of the Compensation Payments Sector for former political prisoners, explains the time frame in which the 3 billion lek fund (around 30 million dollars) made available by the government for this purpose will be distributed. According to Lek Hajdari, the fund will be received by the relatives of deceased former convicts who are still alive, according to a chronologically determined order. The compensation sector will publish every two weeks in the media the names of the beneficiaries, who will have the compensation amount transferred to their bank accounts. The head of the sector stresses in the interview that rules have been set this year to ensure respect for the payment chronology, which begins with the payment ... Continues on pages 6-7

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