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More questioned in Gerdec

TIRANA, April 4 – Prosecutors have questioned residents in Gerdec and workers at the ammunition dismantling factory as part of their intensive investigation of the March 15 blast which killed at least
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More aid coming after Gerdec tragedy

TIRANA, April 7 – NOTTS Police Aid Convoys are preparing five lorries to take aid to a hospital in Tirana where casualties of the Gerdec explosion have been taken. The Notts Police
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2 Flee High Security Prison, Policemen Fired

BURREL, April 7 – Two prisoners escaped from the high security prison in Burrel for less than one hour. Following that, ten officials working at the prison, including its director, were arrested
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Tax officials sentenced to prison

TIRANA, April 4 – Tirana district court pronounced sentencing of 15 years for seven former tax officials accused of corruption. The seven former tax officials, sentenced from ten months to three years
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Guard caught eavesdropping

GREECE, April 7 – Police were investigating a suspected human-trafficking ring in northern Greece, which included Albanians, after an off-duty border patrol guard was caught listening to police radio frequencies near the
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Albania extradited from Greece

TIRANA, April 4 – D짲im Goroveci, 41, was extradited from Athens to serve a 25 year prison term in his homeland. Goroveci had been sentenced to imprisonment for murder but he had
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Haklaj sentenced to imprisonment

TIRANA, April 4 – Tirana district court sentenced Zylfije Haklaj to 25 years imprisonment for the murder of two persons in the northeastern town of Bajram Curri and for injuring two others.
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3 officials arrested on corruption charges

DURRES, April 4 – Three officials in the western port city of Durres were arrested after being accused of selling property certificates. Brikena Cato, 24, of the mortgage office, Shpetim Canin, 41,
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