WIRETAPS/ DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF PRISONS: IF YOU DIDN’T COME TODAY, DON’T COME AT ALL TENDER PROCEDURES IN PRISONS Businessman: There’s nothing left for us Procurements worth 300 million lek for food supply. Iljaz Labi, Shemsi Sinaniti: I sent you 20 SMS messages. Ylber Kalaja: Let’s keep balance, you never know how things will go By SONILA MUSAJ Telephone wiretaps led to the arrest of the deputy director of the General Directorate of Prisons, Iljaz Labi, and four administrators, who participated in a sham competition after a prior agreement with the only two strong men outside from the company. According to investigative sources, these conversations talk about the decisions, the agreements between companies to bid together, the sums each company had to pay, all the way to the announcement of the winner after the money was handed over. In one of the wiretaps, the deputy director of the General Directorate of Prisons, ... On page 7

Cocaine found. A woman also in handcuffs, she wrote down the doses in a notebook (In photo:) Gjergj Cukali. The notes found at Vjollca Gjoça’s home. Muharrem Kallushi. Gentian Balliu. Vjollca Gjoka. Armand Gjoka. Krisald Kundraxhi. Artur Tarja Operation “Tangent”, the strongman from Myslym Shyri is arrested. A total of 16 people in handcuffs, the distributors got the goods from Cukali By XHENSILA KODRA Gjergj Cukali, known as one of the strongmen of the “Myslym Shyri” area in Tira- na, was arrested by the capital’s police during... On page 8

PELLUMBI: FATOS NANO SHOULD NOT SEND US MESSAGES FROM VIENNA On pages 2-3

“More must be done for Albanians” Meta speaks Albanian in Montenegro Tuzi should be an independent municipality On page 6

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

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

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

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

COURT CASE The court denies Emiljano Shullazi his freedom, the lawyer says: No evidence On page 8

DISABILITY New formula for PAK, Tafaj: Payments are being reduced, we will protest On page 10

“HERE’S WHY I GOT OUT OF THE LIMOUSINE AT RINAS” Runner-up Luiza Gega: I earn 1 million old lek a year Supplement