IN ONE YEAR, 12 MAFIA-STYLE EXECUTIONS, ONLY TWO WITH ARRESTED SUSPECTS HIGH-PROFILE MURDERS Files from Baki Xhabatfi to Leonard Murataj How banker Artan Santo and the businessman from Durrës, Xhemal Çela, were executed in broad daylight. Most of the targets were prominent businessmen and well-known names in the criminal underworld By AURORA KOROMANI The targets of the mafia attacks in 2014 were businessmen, as many of them were executed. Over the 12 months just gone by, the country was shaken on many occasions by numerous executions and mafia attacks, not to mention the TNT bomb blasts, at the center of which were people previously involved in crime or well-known figures from the business world in the country. The murder of banker Artan Santo was undoubtedly the one that would shake public opinion nationwide, since his execution took place in the center of Tirana, in broad daylight and in a place surrounded by police officers. “Gazeta Shqiptare” has selected 12 of the most sensational events that shook the entire country in the year now ending, only two of which have been solved by the police. 16 January 2014 - Asrit Gjepali and Halil Fici are executed in an ambush. At that time the police reported that the two well-known names of the world Continues on page 7

Opinion of the Day By PETRIT HALITI If among the countries in our region there is one that least deserves to take over the OSCE presidency, it is Serbia ... The suspicious Serbian presidency of the OSCE Continues on page 11

Opinion of the Day By JORGJI KOTE A few days ago, U.S. President Obama held the traditional press conference on the occasion of the year-end holidays. By ... Diplomacy and cuisine Continues on page 20

Italian ferry burns in the Adriatic, including 22 Albanians among the passengers (In photo: View of the Italian ferry, which burned 12 miles from Albanian waters A Greek citizen dies, his wife survives. The survivors aboard the ferry “Norman Atlantic” speak: Rescue from the crew was delayed, the fire broke out in 3 spots By ENIDA HIMAJ Fire on the ferry with 478 people on board, while among the passengers 22 Albanians are reported and one traveler died as a result of jumping into the sea to save himself On pages 2-3

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