Why did Jet Bank "jump out of trouble"?!

2026-04-21 11:07:00, Denoncim CNA

Jet Bank is a new online banking institution that has been active in some Albanian media and social networks for several weeks. The bank claims to be licensed and supervised by the Bank of Albania and operates in full compliance with the Albanian legal framework and international regulatory standards for the banking sector.

This is stated in a clarification that this institution itself distributed and attempted to publish in several media outlets yesterday, following a public denunciation made by Democratic Party MP Belind Këlliçi, who emphasized that citizen Oliver Hemmer, the director of the company that owns 71% of Jet Bank's shares, is involved in fraud schemes.

“ The next scandal with Jet Bank and the Bank of Albania!

Today I am publishing official documents from the German Interior Ministry, which shed light on the serious threat to our banking system posed by the licensing of JET BANK, where a chain of relationships between several individuals can no longer be treated as administrative coincidences.

According to them, citizen Oliver Hemmer is the Managing Director of the company GRF Europe OU, which operated on behalf of the company 4XFX, owned by Israeli citizen Gal Barak.

The latter was sentenced to 4 years in prison in Austria, after setting up a fraud scheme with Call Centers with an estimated damage of around 200 million euros in several European countries such as England, Austria, Germany, Spain, etc.

Another document clearly shows that Oliver Hemmer is also the director of the Cyprus-registered company, Constador LTD. This company is the owner of 71% of JET BANK, the first online bank in Albania.

At this point, the issue is no longer simply legal, but systemic. The Bank of Albania has licensed these individuals to open the first online bank in the country, raising serious questions about the verification standards and integrity of the process.

But, more than that, the question that arises today is not whether there have been legal violations, but beyond that, are we allowing Albania to evolve from an operational base of call centers that extort European citizens, into a hub for laundering this money?!

"If this alarm line is crossed without reaction, this scandal would pose a direct risk to the credibility and stability of the Albanian banking system itself ," Këlliçi writes.

Këlliçi: JetBank licensing, with questions about verification standards and integrity of the process
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Immediately after the publication of Belind Këlliçi, the bank seems to have "jumped out of trouble". In the clarification it attempted to publish in the media, the bank admits that citizen Oliver Hemmer, against whom MP Këlliçi's denunciation is made, was involved in the company registration process. According to the bank, he had no controlling or operational role and no executive functions in the bank.

Belind Këlliçi's denunciation was directed at citizen Oliver Hemmer and the bank admits that he was involved, despite trying to emphasize that Mr. Hemmer's illegal activities are not related to JetBank's activities. In fact, the announcement made acknowledges his role, but emphasizes that he is not a shareholder and is not as claimed by the DP MP.

Perhaps Jet Bank and its propaganda want to play the "ice cream and chocolate" version and want to give the Albanian public without explaining what Mr. Hemmer's real role was, why he was involved in the company's registration phase, why the bank, a person with legal problems, as emphasized by the deputy, has become a minimal collaborator. Although the bank emphasizes that it will have no role in the future government. In fact, the future begins from the day of the denunciation made by Mr. Këlliçi or has it ended in legal contracts and official documents at another time.

Jet Bank has "jumped out of trouble" and clearly threatens to take all necessary action to denounce defamatory statements and will pursue them legally for false, misleading or defamatory information. These statements with legal prosecution, when the bank itself admits that citizen Oliver Hemmer had a role, regardless of who he is, are very similar to those of the incinerator companies, or the directors of the "5D" file, who are known to have ended up and simply show "fear" and panic.

A bank that had no connection with individuals with certain legal issues would be more direct, cold, and distant. In fact, Jet Bank itself accepts cooperation.

Even the problem that Belind Këlliçi raised was not addressed to Jet Bank, but to the Bank of Albania. And instead of reacting, the Bank of Albania jumped out of the Jet Bank mess. What business did Jet Bank have if its papers were in order? The Bank of Albania remained silent, Jet Bank jumped out.

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CNA has also been able to verify that the propaganda people at Jet Bank are directly and indirectly connected to the mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj, and the directors of the “5D” file. We will bring more complete material to show these connections and the similarity of JetBank’s statement that goes both to Arbër Veliaj’s “Gogel” company and to Redi Molla of the “5D” file./ CNA