In a world that increasingly finds itself turned upside down, our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week tries to make sense of the past, present and future.
Milos Damnjanovic
Albanian politics over the last few years has been marked by a drip-feed of corruption scandals and prosecutions. Among the latest is the one in which Mirlinda Karcanaj, the head of AKSHI, a public body tasked with handling digital public services, has been charged with corruption, abuse of power and money laundering in December last year. She denies the allegations.
In our report, we look at the prosecution allegations of an elaborate corruption scam and zoom in on the small number of people who allegedly made millions in the process.
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