{"id":8511,"date":"2014-09-07T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test946983.live-website.com\/?p=8511"},"modified":"2019-12-12T06:44:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T06:44:10","slug":"albania-arrests-governor-of-central-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=8511","title":{"rendered":"Albania arrests governor of central bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/09\/05\/albaniacenbank-arrest-idUSL5N0R648F20140905\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters article dated 5 September 2014<\/a>, Ardian Fullani, governor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bankofalbania.org\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Banka e Shqiperise<\/a> (Bank of Albania) since 28 October 2004, was arrested by the State Police on charges of abuse of office after the theft of 713 million lek (US$6.63 million) from the bank vaults over four years by bank employee Ardian Bitfaj.<\/p>\n<p>According to the bank&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bankofalbania.org\/web\/BANK_OF_ALBANIA_7127_2.php?kc=0,26,0,0,0\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release dated 6 September 2014<\/a>, the supervisory council of the bank recommends the dismissal of Fullani. If that should come to pass, collectors can expect new signature varieties as the governor&#8217;s signature has appeared on all notes issued during the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Christof Zellweger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Reuters article dated 5 September 2014, Ardian Fullani, governor of the Banka e Shqiperise (Bank of Albania) since 28 October 2004, was arrested by the State Police on charges of abuse of office after the theft of 713 million lek (US$6.63 million) from the bank vaults over<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=8511\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[340,15],"tags":[60],"class_list":["entry","author-owen-linzmayer","post-8511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-banking","category-europe","tag-albania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19871,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511\/revisions\/19871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}