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TIRANA, Dec. 7 – Unfair dismissals of public administration employees have cost Albanian taxpayers a staggering 8 billion lek ($62.5 million, €58 million) in the past three years, Open Data research center has unveiled through a database of treasury transactions in payments following court decisions against the firings. The payments were made in 2014-2016 period and mostly belong to court ruling made in 2014. Data shows the government paid 4.46 billion lek (€32.5 million) in 2015-2016 and 3.5 billion lek (€25.8 million) in 2015 through a total bank transactions of more than 12,000 in penalties for unfair dismissals appealed in…
