Cleaned the drug money/ SPAK takes the file of the former director of the Cadastre to trial

2024-10-25 09:03:00, Kronika CNA

Cleaned the drug money/ SPAK takes the file of the former director of the

The Special Prosecutor's Office against Corruption and Organized Crime forwarded on 23.10.2024 to the Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime the "Request for sending the criminal case for trial" of criminal proceeding no. 18/2023, in charging the defendants: Besjan Ramaj, Leonard Ramaj, Ardjan Malasi, accusing them of committing the criminal offense of "Laundering the proceeds of a criminal offense or criminal activity", carried out in the form of special cooperation, that of a structured criminal group provided for by Article 287/1 and 28/4; "Structured criminal group" provided by article 333/a/1/2 and "Commitment of criminal offenses within the structured criminal group", provided by article 334/1 of the Criminal Code; as well as the defendant Rajmonda Dashi, accusing her of committing the criminal offense of "Cleaning the proceeds of a criminal offense or criminal activity" carried out in cooperation provided by Article 287/2 of the Criminal Code.

According to the acts sent by the Belgian justice authorities, through the letter and from the investigations carried out in relation to the data obtained from these acts, it results that the defendants, Besjan Ramaj and Leonard Ramaj, brothers between them, were sentenced by the Belgian authorities in 2021 for criminal offenses related to narcotics, while the defendant Besjan Ramaj turns out to have been convicted for the same criminal offenses in 2012, by the Norwegian justice authorities.

During the conducted investigations, it turns out that the defendant Besjan Ramaj, at least since 2010 in special cooperation with the defendant Leonard Ramaj (his brother), Ardjan Malasi (his acquaintance) have carried out systematic, continuous illegal actions with purpose of cleaning the income that has benefited from criminal activity, through investing in real estate, carrying out actions for sale and purchase and continuous transfer of ownership, as well as through the issuance of fictitious invoices by their commercial companies for the purpose of justifying legal source. This criminal activity turns out to have continued from 2010 onwards until 2023.

While the defendant Rajmonda Dashi was involved in several actions carried out after 2018, in cooperation with the defendants Besjan Ramaj and Ardjan Malasi, which due to the time of involvement in this activity, the role and actions carried out by her, it turns out that she has acting within the framework of simple cooperation and not special cooperation.

Their actions consisted mainly a) in the transfer of property in order to hide the illegal origin; b) concealing or covering up ownership or rights in relation to property, knowing that this property is the product of a criminal offense or criminal activity; c) the acquisition of ownership, knowing at the moment of taking it over, that this property is the product of a criminal offense or criminal activity; ç) performing financial actions or fragmented transactions to avoid reporting, according to the legislation for the prevention of money laundering; d) investment in economic or financial activity of money or items, knowing that they are products of a criminal offense or criminal activity d) use of commercial companies, through the issuance of fictitious invoices to easily transfer money.

During this criminal activity, it turns out that cash was mainly used, which was integrated into the company "Ledio 04" sh.pk with partner and administrator, the defendant Ardjan Malasi, to be invested in real estate, accompanied by by performing numerous bank actions and transfers of monetary values ??from the accounts of the commercial company to the personal one and vice versa, being involved in the performance of fictitious legal actions, such as lending, sale and purchase of real estate, or transfer of these assets, the Amount of the money involved in the criminal activity of cleaning the proceeds of the criminal offense turns out to be nearly one million two hundred and fifty thousand euros and nine million ALL.

All these facts in their entirety show that the defendants have premeditated the way of acting, have had continuity in their activity, being involved in the performance of numerous legal actions and financial transactions, thus acting within the framework of a cooperation of especially, that of the structured criminal group, with the aim of material gain.

Their knowledge of the illegal origin of assets and income is proven for the defendants Besjan and Leonard Ramaj as being involved in the criminal activity of drug trafficking, where the illegal income was generated, and for the defendants Ardjan Malasi and Rajmonda Aries from the factual circumstances, such as their involvement in the performance of clearly fictitious legal actions, as well as in other actions performed during the investment in real estate of income known to have an illegal origin or other legal actions performed in connection with them.

In the framework of this proceeding, the following were seized earlier and the confiscation was requested in the Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime:

1. 12 (twelve) apartments in the city of Fier;

2.1 (one) store of 300m 2 in the city of Fier;

3.1 (one) real estate, olive grove, with an area of ??5,200 m, located in Mallakastër;

4.4 (four) apartments in the city of Tirana;

5. 3 (three) premises with garage function in the city of Tirana;

6. 1 (one) trading company;

7. 2 (two) vehicles;

In relation to this investigation, it has cooperated with the justice authorities of the state of Belgium and Norway./ CNA