The cigarette phantom smuggler
After a year of smuggling, thousands of tons of goods arrive in a container ship with the Greek ship "Demir". 6 Albanians arrested
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Nano’s offensive
No one like Berisha, although in retreat (decline). Nano is taking on the entire governing face of politics. This time, he gives one a substitute name, “Amantëa”. In the late hours of yesterday, within the PD, a centralization began with solution-oriented and political theses for the country. Prime Minister Nano also made another important move regarding the work of the chief prosecutor. “Amandino”, from the invitation made, may also be the “jewel” of the new anti-corruption decoration. Yesterday he also baptized in Parliament one of the Majo de and before. The preparation of this is the thread of the action and the creation of a different ministry to socialize it and to revive it there to the PD, liked by him from the stability of the government. This move was made at the same moment as the arrest of the powerful cigarette smuggler.
In the prime minister’s office yesterday morning a super-police force bought with the country’s balance was at work. Prime Minister Nano made a planned and sudden move yesterday. Throughout the day he was coordinating with diplomacy and directly handed out clear directives to several ministers. The Prosecutor General was supposed to take over the entire structure of the state police as well. Such publicity could not pass beyond control. Under the conditions where it must be used as an example against corruption and smuggling, it is no coincidence that the PD and its admiring group are leveling accusations that are necessarily trying to preserve their own territories. Nano, wielding power like no one else in Albania, clung to the figure of the enemy as a secret game to place all institutions under the government’s rule. At the height of debates by the SP and its allies against the mandated procedure, which stands out with an apparently harmless dragging-out, he nevertheless carried it out with the super weight of the Albanian police revolution, which paradoxically is also escaping Albanian politics’ own “invitation”. In the security organs, besides this, since it had been offered in such a way in the first position, a model of reference was more needed; it succeeded in stopping and preserving the name as much as needed. This course may have to do with the overthrow and collapse of the financial pyramids in 1997, and with the demand to cleanse the image of the anti-Berisha coalition government. Nano thus consolidates his own political power and joins it with a harsh police figure. Within this framework he uses “Amandino” against “Demir” and half of the smuggling world.
[Note: the text of the column is partially illegible and many words are conjectural.]
Interior Minister Neritan Ceka in one of the billiard halls of Tirana