Yesterday, Dilaver Bengasi, a senior official in the Ministry of Public Order, and lawyer Idajet Beqiri, chairman of the National Unity Party, were charged They took 70 million lek to get an arrested police officer out of jail page 5

Some are writing about the court and demonstrating forcefully, when the Land Registry raised the alarm three years ago to the judge. The Ministry of Public Order, while trying to exonerate itself, has passed the responsibility on. But the big scandal is in the fact that the banknotes that were burned were not stamped with the seal, but with the seals of the Director General, as well as two other directors. Even more, it is suspected that behind this affair stands a senior official from that time, based on the testimonies of Security informants, etc. In the efforts and prime actors of this pyramid scheme, since the beginning it has been obvious that what does not hold falls on it. Among the positions involved in this chain of corruption there are also prosecutors and senior police officials. Finally, the officials of the Institution of [?]axtit have been dismissed in the name of the commander. Old controversies are being repeated and new shadows are emerging over this affair. In yesterday’s draft for the issuing bank, a seal-bearing villain found by the government in almost four thousand banknotes, currency and foreign exchange. The first issuing bank, attributing everything to the most blatant actions, the Minister of Public Order is expected, this k[r?]yosal of the room in Pandora, but not in Al[?]en of Prishtina. Here the argument of “kull” is achieved with the moral shoulders of Hasan and the nameless, with seal and value, which is not enough to justify the scandal over which periodic favors of the Ministry of Public Order have also been carried out. Publicly this group, over it a few paska[?] explosions of the detainees will erupt. After the discovery of the traces, a silent cleanup was set in motion, with the aim of covering as many traces as possible of one of the most serious banking scandals. But the affair also came to light, with some [?] glass of poçi, voting cuts, perhaps even in the idea of clashing people with special names, but without speaking about the scandal. The former head of the Bank, S. [?], has been questioned by economic specialists, who interviewed him over two days. Now his name has been placed in the prosecutor’s crosshairs, being considered the person who will bear the main weight of the scandal. But several other people in robes are also under scrutiny for being accused of collaborating in popularity with the seals of money. In the Bank of Albania, by attributing everything to its actions, there are a number of other names, the name of the Minister of Finance? or [?]. Likewise, those who received the seals are also on the list, and they are suspected of abusing their duty by not reporting such a scandal. The article will continue in another issue.

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