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Macedonian Economy Minister Turned Mobster on Screen
World | November 26, 2011, Saturday // 19:42
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Macedonian Economy Minister Valon Saraqini will play the part of a gangster in a Greek-Macedonian movie. Photo by zhurnal.mk
Macedonia's Economy Minister Valon Saraqini is playing the role of an Albanian mafia boss in a Greek-Macedonian movie.
The movie of Greek director Menelaos Karamargiolis "Just Another Confused Elephant" is expected on the big screen in 2012.
In it, Macedonia's Economy Minister Valon Saraqini, an ethnic Albanian, is in the role of an Albanian mafia chief trading with human organs and children, the Bulgarian news agency BGNES reported.
BGNES reminds that Valon Saraqini was appointed Minister of Economy in the coalition Cabinet of PM Nikola Gruevski's VMRO-DPMNE party.
Saraqini is a member of the Democratic Union for Integration, an ethnic Albanian party, which is a coalition partner of VMRO-DPMNE.
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