14 commercial companies, land and buildings/ 50 million euros of assets of 7 traffickers are seized

2024-06-28 08:47:00, Aktualitet CNA

14 commercial companies, land and buildings/ 50 million euros of assets of 7

Prosecutor's Office of Tirana

The Prosecutor's Office of Tirana has seized 50 million euros of assets of seven people, previously convicted in Belgium for drug trafficking.

It is about the assets of citizens with the initials EA, MT, KB, DB, EB, VA, EB and some commercial entities proven to be in their administration.

They are charged with the criminal offense of 'Cleaning the proceeds of a criminal offense or criminal activity', provided by Article 287, second paragraph of the Criminal Code. The preliminary assessment shows that the value of the assets is 50 million euros.

From the conducted investigation, sufficient evidence was provided that creates the reasonable suspicion that EA citizens in cooperation with KB, EB etc. citizens have committed the criminal offense of "Cleaning the products of a criminal offense or criminal activity" carried out in cooperation, provided for by article 287, second paragraph of the Criminal Code and it is suspected that their wives are also involved in this scheme. The EA citizen was convicted in Belgium, where he also served the sentence within the framework of criminal groups. Also, from the evidence administered up to this stage of the investigation, there is a reasonable suspicion that this citizen has also committed the criminal offense of "Smuggling of licensed goods", provided for by Article 173 of the Criminal Code.

In the context of his illegal activity, citizen EA has established a number of commercial companies, with the aim of masking the performance of illegal activities on his part, with activities considered as legal. This citizen, through the creation of a number of companies, some of them under the administration of the UN or VA citizens, have created a real scheme for cleaning the products of the criminal offense.

From the conducted investigation, it was established that some fictitious actions were carried out, such as: sale - purchase of a vehicle, where on the same day the cancellation of the legal action was carried out, selling the vehicle at a very high price, obtaining loans from second-tier banks, at unjustified levels, where the bank itself surprisingly also becomes the guarantor of the amounts given, the creation of fictitious companies, which have been proven to have had a significant increase in the share capital despite not having carried out any financial activity, giving of loans in significant amounts, but not justifying the legal source of their creation, the creation of companies with joint quotas between EA and KB citizens, or between KB and EB, determining large quota values, but unpaid by the respective partners, the purchase of lots with considerable value, but the source of income is not legitimate, etc.

For these reasons, based on Article 274 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the Prosecutor's Office requested:

The establishment of the property insurance measure "Preventive Sequestration" in total for 14 commercial companies;

The imposition of the property insurance measure "Preventive sequestration" on the assets of the company "F......" shpk:

- Property of the type "Arë", with a total area of ??820 m2, with address Vrîna Village;

- Property of the "building" type, with no. Registration 00006769 dated 15.07.2021;

- Property of the "building" type, with total 2,300 m2;

- Property with no. registration 00006769, dated 15.07.2021;

- Property of the "building" type, with no. property 264/40ND1, sip. total 276 m2;

- Property with no. registration 00006769, dated 15.07.2021 of the "land" type;

- Property of the "field" type, with sip. total 4,900 m2; AND

- Property of the "building" type, with no. registration 00006769, dated 15.07.2021.

The imposition of the property insurance measure "Preventive Seizure" on assets registered in the name of the UN citizen, as follows:

- Property of the "Unit" type, with a purchase price of ALL 9,300,000;

- Property of the "Unit" type, with a purchase price of 600,000 Euros;

- Property of the "Shop" type, with an area of ??222 m2;

- Property of the "Shop" type with an area of ??220.8 m2 and a veranda with an area of ??285 m2;

- Property "Apartment", with a surface area of ??201.8 m2;

- Property "Garage" with an area of ??18.9 m2;

- Property "Garage" with a total value of 25,000 Euros or 3,425,000 ALL (25,000 Euros each); AND

- Assets of the "Car" type, of the "Mercedez Benz" type, in the amount of 117,000 Euros.

The imposition of the property insurance measure "Preventive Sequestration" on assets registered in the name of EA and MN citizens, as follows:

- Property of the "Villa" type with a construction area of ??171.6 m2 and a land area of ??300.8 m2, worth 370,000 euros;

- Property of the "Land" type with a purchase price of 370,000 euros; AND

- Property of the type "Single Villa A2", sip. construction 334.2 m2 and plot area 550 m2, with a purchase price of 480,000 euros.

The imposition of the property insurance measure "Preventive Sequestration" against the bank accounts of the subjects, at the second level banks./ CNA