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Suspected of working with cartels, several police stations see purges

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TIRANA, April 20 – At least 10 police officers and eight customs officials at the port of Durres and at the Qafe Thane border point were arrested Monday, following suspicions that they had facilitated the crossing of two various shipments of roughly 10 metric tons of cannabis sativa to nearby Italy. The two shipments crossed the border in February and March, prosecutors said. On Feb. 5, Italian officials seized eight tons of drugs hidden in a truck which was revealed to have entered Albania through the customs of Qafe Thane and then made it out through the Durres Port to…

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