Xhevat Hana passes away, he had been investigating Remzi Hoxha The son: The state will not uncover the truth of the killing Family members’ accusation: The government refused financial aid for treatment abroad The news Prosecutor Xhevat Hana died last night at the age of 58 in a hospital in Italy, without assistance from the Albanian government. The family accuses the state and the Ministry of Health of hastening his death. TIRANA POLI HOXHA The prosecutor Hana’s son, Rezart, a third-year student in the Law department at the state university, who has decided to follow in his father’s professional footsteps, in an exclusive interview for “Shqiptarja.com”, just 3 hours before his father’s death, recounts the sudden illness and the family’s first suspicions that his father may have been injected with the serious disease by external factors because of the case he was working on, the one against former SHIK officials, accused of kidnapping and disappearing the Albanian-Macedonian businessman Remzi Hoxha. This serious suspicion was first presented to Albanian doctors, but they were unable to provide an answer. Meanwhile, after their first examinations and interviews with prosecutor Hana, Italian doctors urgently notified the Italian Anti-Mafia, which began monitoring the tests and investigating the suspicions. Twenty-one-year-old Hana, who has just returned from Italy, where he had been by his father’s side, also recounts with outrage the ordeal the family went through with the Ministry of Health,... continued on page 2 In the photo: Rezart Hana (right) Prosecutor Xhevat Hana In the photo: Rezart Hana (right) Prosecutor Xhevat Hana

Editorial BY ARBEN RROZHANI One of the best-known representatives of the Albanian Prosecutor’s Office breathed his last yesterday in a clinic in Bergamo, Italy, after a month of illness. Since last night Xhevat Hana is one “enemy” less on their list, for those who did not want him underfoot and who, while he was alive, had pushed him to the brink of moral, professional and spiritual trauma. But for many he is a friend with a capital F, which shows that the good man is targeted precisely because he can never be bad. The case of former prosecutor Xhevat Hana is a clear illustration of what kind of civil servant the current state wants. He was the right prosecutor, if those in power were truly the “government of clean hands” as they had promised in 2005, when they came to lead the Albanian government. Because he dealt with those major and burning files, the investigation and clarification of which would have honored and made respectable any government, if it had been willing. But no. Before being transferred from the General Prosecutor’s Office at the end of 2007, the late Hana was the representative of the Albanian prosecution in the corruption case involving the Durrës-Kukës road, a corruption believed to amount to at least 220 million euros. His transfer and then the closing of the case by the General Prosecutor’s Office showed the absent will of the prosecution body to make high-ranking officials who profited from corruption an example, the same issue that foreigners today raise with concern and which has become the fashion of the... continued on page 3 The case of former prosecutor Xhevat Hana is a clear illustration of what kind of civil servant the current state wants

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JAKIN MARENA Former LSI deputy Dritan Prifti, currently independent, has accused Meta of corruption, while warning that he will make another recording public. For his part, the LSI leader denied having held a leadership meeting, declaring that he will run again and... continued on page 5

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