WIRETAPS/ DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF PRISONS: IF YOU DIDN’T COME TODAY, DON’T COME AT ALL TENDERS IN PRISONS Businessman: There’s nothing left for us Procurements worth 300 million lek for food supply. Iljaz Labi to Shemsi Sinani: I sent you 20 SMS messages. Ylber Kalaja: Let’s keep balance, you never know how things will turn out By SONILA MUSAJ Telephone wiretaps led to the arrest of the Deputy Director General of Prisons, Iljaz Labi, and 4 administrators, who competed fictitiously after a prior agreement with the two strongmen of the company. According to investigative sources, these conversations talk about the decisions, agreements between companies to run together, the amounts each company had to pay, up to the announcement of the winner after the money was handed over. In one wiretap, the Deputy Director General of Prisons, ... On page 7

Day’s Opinion By MIMOZA KOÇIU The purple story of the internal intrigue in the Socialist Party has been dragging on painfully with admirable persistence for two days,... Continues on page 21 Follow the money - Track the money!

Day’s Opinion By MENTOR KIKIA A group of civil society activists, not as numerous as three years ago, appeared again to oppose the change... Continues on page 21 Activism for the cause of import “waste” payers

OPINION By MIRA BREGU On the work of the mission at the UN, Geneva On page 20

Cocaine found. A woman also in handcuffs, she noted the doses in a notebook (In photo:) Gjergj Cukali. The notes found at Vjollca Gjuka’s house. Muharrem Kallushi, Gentian Balliu, Vjollca Gjoka, Armand Gjoka, Krisald Kundraxhi, Artur Tarja Operation “Tangent”, the tough guy from Myslym Shyri is arrested. A total of 16 people in handcuffs, the distributors took the merchandise from Cukali By XHENSILA KODRA Gjergj Cukali, known as one of the tough men of the “Myslym Shyri” area in Tirana, was arrested by the capital’s police during... On page 8

PELLUMBI: FATOS NANO SHOULD NOT SEND US MESSAGES FROM VIENNA 25 YEARS OF PS 25 YEARS OF PS, RAMA AT THE CELEBRATION: GRATITUDE TO THE FOUNDERS, LSI MINISTERS ARE MISSING On pages 2-3

“MORE SHOULD BE DONE FOR ALBANIANS” Meta speaks Albanian in Montenegro Tuzi should be an independent municipality On page 6

REPLIES Vladimir Kosta: I vote for the reform. Ministers: We made a sacrifice On page 4

LIMITED ABILITY New formula for PAK, Tafaj: Payments will be reduced, we will protest On page 10

PROCESS Court rejects Emiljano Shullazi’s release, lawyer says: No evidence On page 8

“THIS IS WHY I CAME DOWN FROM THE LIMOUSINE AT RINAS” Runner-up Luiza Gega: I earn 1 million old lek a year Supplement