EXCLUSIVE/ The full Tirana Prosecutor’s Office file on the implication of Fatjon Hoxha WIRETAPS OF THE RINAS DIRECTOR He employed citizens to traffic them The state official is still in office. Here are the phone calls that show the passage of citizens with false documents. According to the prosecution, Hoxha’s fixer was his driver. The clandestine migrants were hired at the airport to allow them to depart The news The director of Rinas airport, Fatjon Hoxha, forged official documents by hiring various citizens to send them abroad. According to the prosecution file, the clients were brought to him by his driver, Ismail Gërbi, who had also previously been convicted of document forgery. ■■ TIRANE ELTON QYNO The director of Rinas airport has been indicted by the Tirana Prosecutor’s Office, after numerous pieces of evidence linked him to abuse of office and forgery of official documents. In at least... ► continues on pages 8-9 In the photo: The full prosecutor’s file on Fatjon Hoxha and the passport control point at Rinas In the photo: The full prosecutor’s file on Fatjon Hoxha and the passport control point at Rinas

Comment BY GENTIAN BALA May Day, first as a day of protest Beginning with the 1990s and up to today, Albania has experienced an unprecedented transformation. Not only the transition from a dictatorial system to a pluralist one, from a centralized economy to a free market, and from communism to capitalism. The totalitarian state, long tied up until yesterday, ceased to exist several times over these 20 years, and tragedies such as Otranto and Gërdec cannot be erased from memory either. The war in Kosovo, the transition and independence marked a new era for all Albanians. At first, the surge of the mid-1990s, artificially inflated by the phenomenon of pyramid schemes, then year zero in 1997, the rebirth at the beginning of this millennium, the “economic boom” and finally the crisis—political, social, economic and above all moral—were best embodied by a centralized power with a mafia-like character... In all this metamorphosis that the country went through, there will be remembered political figures, shocking events, moments when the course of history changed, but the permanent and forgotten constant of these 20 years, the darkest symbol of the system that is gone, will... ► continues on page 7

INTERVIEW WITH THE FORMER PRESIDENT Moisiu: Technical government, then elections “A president not from PD, but a symbol of unity.” Topalli and Ceka are proposed for president ■■ TIRANE JAKIN MARENA Former head of state Alfred Moisiu has spoken out against the election of a president from a political party, saying it would damage democracy in the country. He says that to hold fair elections, a technical government would... ► Pages 2-3

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