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ALBANIA - SPEEDBOATS, CANNABIS AND CONCRETE

By Elira Kuqi · 4 parts · 11 h 16 min · English

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Albania, 1992 to 2026. A country that left communism with no banks and no land register poured its savings into pyramid schemes that collapsed into armed revolt, then watched speedboats, cannabis fields and cocaine brokers make fortunes while its state looked on — or, in the cases its courts and prosecutors have documented, took part. This book follows the money from the Otranto strait to Tirana's empty towers, and the special prosecutors who, after 2019, began trying the country's most powerful figures. Covers VEFA Holding and Vehbi Alimuçaj, the former interior minister Saimir Tahiri and his cousins' cannabis network, Kompania Bello and Dritan Rexhepi, the incinerator concessions and Lefter Koka, and SPAK and its cases against Ilir Meta, Sali Berisha and Erion Veliaj.

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  1. Part 01

    3:08:50

  2. Part 02

    2:41:21

  3. Part 03

    2:34:41

  4. Part 04

    2:51:00

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