One customs officer arrested, two detained THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE Saturday 23 January 1999, No. 16 (15738) PPSH newspaper 30 ANTI-SMUGGLING LANDS IN THE CANAL One customs officer arrested, two detained The Prosecutor’s Office of Gjirokastër has ordered the detention of the owner of the Turkish company [?] and 5 employees of customs and the supporting customs police Anti-smuggling investigators have made known that a company selling shoes from Macedonia was transported through the villages of Vërrihë and Subashtë in the vehicle of T. Xhavara[?] and taken to Gjirokastër. On this route, four border commanders [?] and one officer from the Anti-Smuggling Responsibilities Chamber [?] were also taken in, accused of responsibility for the fuel trafficking in the police equipment and documents [?], involved in the organizations and have been enough at the Upper customs points to transport the goods through the village of Vërrihë and sell them by exploiting a considerable quantity of smuggled iron [?] made through the border product. CUSTOMS POLICE

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PAGE 7 Smuggling at the port during the day at the port Durrës - Albanian ships sell the fuel for their own needs, unloading it with a little more than 1 kilo [?] before sending it to other ports. The much-discussed date of the smuggling from the port has been published after a notice issued before yesterday in the first page of our newspaper concerning a profit of around 1 million 400 thousand dollars by the transporters, obtained from the refineries.

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