Where did the Italian Government’s 20 billion lire go?

Çeço in Rome: NGOs have not implemented the projects on page 9

Secret pact at the Presidency

The Prime Minister and Fatos Klosi go to the prosecutor’s office to make peace. “Forget the accusations of corruption” Meidani reconciles Meta with Rakipi: Lower your weapons, there’s enough for everyone on page 7

A “soft coup” over money

editorial By Sami NEZA The corrupt Socialist government and its alternative, also corrupt within this party, will bring each other down whenever they want, and outside institutional channels. Neither the Mesa group nor the Nano group benefits from using transparency to bring down or appoint governments. If all the institutions were brought into this matter, or, in other words, if the process of change went through procedures made public, then no faction within Europe’s most corrupt party would pass even the moral test for governing the country. When Fatos Nano came to head the government, he declared that he would expose the corruption of the PD and its officials within a short time on page 3

Mustafaj: The PD is expanding diplomatically

The Democratic Party, the West’s card for Albania on page 3

Shehu: Meta sets a dangerous precedent

Legal experts comment on the Prime Minister’s statement: on page 2

Agasi, Paço and Beqiraj, the fuel barons

From the FILE on the thieves in power on page 2

Farduin Hoxha declares KESH bankrupt

on page 9

Tirana against AIDS, with just one campaign

on page 8

Today, 443 days since the murder of the December Leader

The government protects Azem Hajdari’s killers Every day that passes since the murder of Azem Hajdari, the symbol of democracy and pluralism, proves the involvement of Fatos Nano’s government and his successor in the crime that shook the entire Albanian world. The governments of the former communists and of the criminal successors who took the life of the December Leader show Albanians that they have been and remain on the other side; they have specific names, but are untouchable. The Democrats and all Albanians who… “I cannot forget Azem Hajdari,” he said… The government must either catch and bring out …, is not criminal, or it must declare… it itself committed the murder of Azem H…