OPERATION / THE MAN SENTENCED TO 25 YEARS THREATENED HIM BY “SKYPE” FROM PRISON GENC FERHATI, A BUSINESSMAN “FINED” FROM HIS CELL Prosecutor’s file / The man convicted of killing Denis Gina, Genc Ferhati, asked the café owner for shares in a video call: You will work for us until you die By KLODIANA LALA Genc Ferhati, sentenced to 25 years in prison for the assas- sination by ambush of Denis Gina and Median Shehu, in June 1999, is described by the Serious Crimes Prosecutor’s Office as the head of a criminal group that extorted business- men. The operation, code-named “Burgu Skajp”, sent four people to prison, including Fajtim Serjani, a close acquaintance of Emiljano Shullazi, both of whom sur- vived two bomb attacks on the evening of 5 January 2014. Two others have been declared wanted. According to the pros- ecuting authority, the group that had targeted Continues on page 7

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