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TIRANA, May 9 – Minister of Interior Affairs Fatmir Xhafaj said this week several police officials were likely bribed to cooperate or stay silent in order to help organized crime manage its marijuana cultivation and trafficking. “Particular individuals from the state police have had ties with marijuana cultivators or traffickers. They have been paid for their silence or collaborated with them. I think that some local police directors have kept silence over the phenomenon on purpose,” Xhafaj said in an interview broadcast by a private television station. In his first interview since his appointment as Minister of Interior Affairs, Xhafaj…
