The deputy director’s orders to the inspectors are published Telephone records of former officials of the Directorate of Metrology revealed by the Prosecutor’s Office Mobile communications in October-November 2011 between Roland Çelmeta and his subordinates in the field to collect fines from businessmen and commercial entities The news The compromising conversations of the former deputy director of the Directorate of Metrology and Calibration and the inspectors ordered by him show the mechanism through which the bribery scheme with traders works, who must pay state employees under the table. ■■■ TIRANË After the publication of the full wiretaps by the Tirana Prosecutor’s Office concerning former officials of the Directorate of Metrology and Calibration, ‘Shqiptarja.com’ also reveals part of the full conversations that took place in the period October-November 2001, between the deputy director, Roland Çelmeta, the inspectors and some of the businessmen who were supposed to pay bribes to get work done. These conversations reveal the mechanism by which they abused their office, taking the money for themselves. BELOW ARE SOME OF THE TRANSCRIBED CONVERSATIONS Date. 10.10.2011 target wiretap number 0682020483 (inspector Kristaq Thanasi) was called from number 0694058175: 483: yes 175: hey inspector, how are you? 483: fine, what did you do? 175: ...I’m here at the office now a bit, I’m discussing that matter, could you tell me a little what the boss there was called, I can’t remember, because I want to tell these people here of mine. 483: the office boss? 175: and those two, the deputy director and the other one 483: so you are from that company 175: the one from Tac 483: yes... continues on page 5

In the photo: Flamur Ahmeti, the owner of the bread bakery in Tiranë The bakery owner: How the METE inspectors stole BY BESMIRA MUÇAJ Page 11 In the photo: Flamur Ahmeti, the owner of the bread bakery in Tiranë

A coffee with the doctor BY ANILA BASHA Built by day demolished by night I thought that yesterday I would find the doctor upset, but no. He was in a better mood than usual. He did not have much time because he was about to head to Elbasan to inspect the tunnel works. He – Come in, Anila. Work is being done... we have declared war on corruption. Me – Precisely for that reason I came to talk to you, doctor. There is something that does not add up in the arrests case. At first glance they seem to have been made with great urgency. Those LSI officials were wiretapped at the beginning of November, and in the middle of this month they were arrested. There are some things that need to be looked at politically, mostly in your relationship with your main ally, Ilir Meta. On Monday there is the next hearing in the Supreme Court and at the end of it, Mr Meta comes out clean with justice, as is rumored. But, as it seems, the signals from the head of PS, Edi Rama, about drawing closer to Ilir Meta, are clear. It seems that you are doing nothing more than a kind of pressure on your decisive government ally, for every move he might make on the opposition side by breaking the alliance at such a moment. But by reminding him that in order to attack him you will keep open the files of the people from this party, Ilir Meta may change his mind. And in fact, your action has had the right effects on the head of LSI. It has been three days since the arrests of some of the people from the LSI leadership and he still has not spoken. Finding himself in a difficult position now when you have enough knowledge about the LSI people working in the administration, they are also not afraid of what a PS-LSI alliance might produce, by... ...your relationship (of PD and LSI, after these frequent attacks) here has ended, build by day and demolish at night... continues on page 6

WHAT HAVE WE SOLD? According to the Nigerian government, in 2009 we exported ‘goods’ for a staggering amount GENC KONDI “Shqiptarja.com” reveals a scandal behind which there may be a mega money-laundering affair, or a suspicious arms trade, which Albania may have carried out alone, or in cooperation with some foreign state or business. In the Nigerian state’s official statistics documents for 2009, it appears that goods worth a total unbelievable 201.9 billion “naira” or 1 billion 346 million dollars were exported from Albania to this country, but this figure is not reflected, as would be normal, in the official balance sheets of the Albanian side. This huge commercial movement is not reported by our Institute of Statistics, nor by the General Directorate of Customs, nor by the Bank of Albania. In our country’s official records for 2009, it is said that total exports were equal to a converted value of 1 billion 88 million US dollars, that is, smaller than the entire figure reported... continues on page 2

Page 6 Tiranë-Elbasan tunnel, the Greeks: We have not received the money for the work Page 7 Rama’s meeting with the Assembly the debates about the collars and the notables

Page 8 Alarm: Hunters, an army with 100 thousand weapons out of control Page 9 The fraud, traffic police officers collect the waived fines

Page 12 Master’s degrees in law, doubts about the winners of the professional exam Page 14-15 The independence flag, the letter of Eqerem Vlora in 1930