Fier’s incinerator, Lefter Koka and Alqi Blako are sentenced to prison

The Special Court has sentenced the defendants in the Fieri incinerator case. ABC News reporter Ermal Vija reports that the former Minister of the Environment, Lefter Koka, was sentenced to 9.8 years in prison due to a shortened trial. As the former secretary in this ministry, Alqi Blako was sentenced to 2.8 years in prison. […]

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