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TIRANA, April 9 – Police have seized a record 12 tons of marijuana worth more than $7 million hidden inside an abandoned state-owned warehouse in the southern Albanian village of Pagri, near the town of Permet. Officials were tipped off on April 7 and immediately launched an operation which led to the seizure and two arrests. One man is still wanted. Police said it had evidence that two former administrators of the building knew of the drugs stored there. The chief of the Pagri village, Koco Zaimaj, was also detained for failing to inform the authorities over the illegal activity….
