“OFF-SHORE LEAKS” / TAX HAVENS, COMPANIES REGISTERED IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS The names of 5 Albanian companies are revealed “OFF-SHORE LEAKS” / TAX HAVENS, COMPANIES REGISTERED IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS SUSPICION OF EVASION The names of 5 Albanian companies are revealed The international investigation involved 2.5 million files published by “Guardian”. The mysterious Albanian companies have foreign directors, 3 were founded on the same day By LORENC RABETA They have more or less similar profiles, the 5 Albanian companies registered in tax havens, published among 100,000 secret companies created around the world, in what is being presented as one of the biggest tax-evasion scandals. They even bear very similar names: “ALBANIA GROUP TRADING LIMITED”, “ALBANIA SERVICES LIMITED”, “ALBANIA BANIA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED”, “ALBANIA INTERNATIONAL LTD.” and “Albania Services Ltd”. All five were registered in the British Virgin Islands, and 3 of them on the same date (18 April 2000), one on 14 January 2003, while the incorporation date for the fifth is missing. The data are online and it concerns more than 2.5 million files, which were partially published by the prestigious “The Guardian” after the investigation conducted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The latter is an organization... Continues on page 9

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FULL LIST Dismissals from work, names of 175 complaints in the Civil Service On page 8

MEDIA EXPERT/ INTERVIEW FOR “GSH” Aidan White: Elections are the greatest test for journalism On page 21

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