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Inside Europe: Albania bans gambling

SYSTEMFebruary 15, 2019

It is not often that Albania is cited as a social reform trend-setter but it's just banned gambling. Tired of people ruining themselves and their families because of compulsive betting, tired too of mafia gangs laundering their ill-gotten gains through gambling establishments, the government closed all the country's betting shops on January 1. John Laurenson reports from Tirana.

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