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The “ARSIDI” scandal, without Arsid Who is the big body? Gentlemen, why do you concern yourselves only with the small Tiranë and not with the big body? I saw Mr. Arif Hykmë tonight on TV speaking and making every effort to erase “Arsidi” from this medium. I understood that the matter must be even more serious than it seemed. I remember that at first, about 40–50 days ago, also on TV, only the sum of 8 thousand dollars given to customs officers and police officers to pass 3 fuel tankers with smuggled gasoline from Greece was mentioned. Later I learned that the company “Arsidi” had apparently brought into the country 1 to 3 loads of gasoline per day, by means of tanker trucks, for profitable trade with VAT and without VAT, without customs duty, without police, without customs officers, without salaries in the bank. What the public heard on TV about “Arsidi” was presented as the only case of smuggling fish and gasoline, but the media wrote that “Arsidi” is only the tip of the iceberg. It was said that we have a much broader smuggling network, with companies and people linked to state structures. I do not know whether this is true, but one thing is clear: when efforts are made to erase the issue from television, people become even more suspicious. If it were slander, why all this alarm? Why this haste to remove the name, to diminish the scandal, to turn it into a “small case”? If the state is serious, let it investigate to the end. Who allowed the passage? Who benefited? Who took money? Who closed their eyes? And above all, who is the “big body” hiding behind the small ones? Albania is tired of the story of catching one small fish while the sharks swim peacefully. Citizens have the right to know where the gasoline goes, where taxes are lost, who is stealing public revenue. If there is only television noise and no legal responsibility, then this affair will also remain proof that justice strikes where it is easiest, not where it should. OSMAN ADEMI (Changed name) Sinqeras, Vlora

Writes: DINO [...]

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