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Police arrest persons with illegal gold, false documents, other arrest

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TIRANA, Nov. 5 – Police arrested Sunday Kujtim Plaku, 48, found with four false passports, three Greek and one U.S. one. At his house police found a considerable amount of gold items in a total of 2.61 kilograms in the folr of rings, neclaces, coins and other jewlleries. Police also found watches, cameras, and radio sets. Plaku had been accused of theft and drug smuggling in neighboring greece. But Plaku denied that he had stolen the amterial saying he was in the gold commerce. He had, nevertheless, no license to operate as a physical person in that business. It is believed that the gold came from greece. Kavaja police arrested Wednesday Elvira Duda, 20, for exerting prostitution. Duda had been sentenced with six months imprisonment for theft.

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