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Albania’s Socialist Party government has been shaken this week by potentially the most damaging scandal it has had to face since coming to power in 2013. Wiretaps from Italian authorities of Albanian cannabis traffickers seem to serve as proof of ties between government and police officials and drug traffickers. Former Interior Minister and current Socialist MP Saimir Tahiri, mentioned by name in the wiretaps, is in the eye of the storm, but regardless what happens to him personally, the wiretaps indicate the problem was systemic. The opposition has been hurling these accusations for years. But without any public proof, no…
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