The Prosecutor’s Office of Tirana has seized 50 million euros of assets on behalf of seven persons, previously convicted in Belgium for drug trafficking.
According to the prosecution, the persons in question committed the criminal offense of “Cleaning the products of a criminal offense or criminal activity” committed in cooperation. It is about the assets of the citizens Elman Abule and Kristian Boci and the persons related to them.
According to the prosecution, it is suspected that their wives were also involved in this scheme.
The Tirana Prosecutor’s Office seizes 50 million euros of assets of seven people, previously convicted in Belgium for drug trafficking The Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction, Tirana in cooperation with the Economic Crime Section in the General Directorate of the State Police and the General Directorate of Customs, Taxes, requested the imposition of preventive seizure against assets owned by E. A. citizens, M. T., K. B., D. B., E. B., V. A., E. B. and the assets of some commercial entities proven to be in the administration of the above-mentioned citizens, for the criminal offense ‘Cleaning the proceeds of a criminal offense or criminal activity’, provided for by Article 287, paragraph i second 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 reasonable suspicion that citizens E.A. in cooperation with citizens K.B., E.B., etc., have committed the criminal offense “Cleaning the products of a criminal offense or criminal activity” committed in cooperation, provided by article 287, second paragraph of the Criminal Code and it is suspected that their wives are also involved in this scheme.
The citizen E. A. is 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 framework of his illegal activity, the citizen E. A. has founded a series 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 citizens of K.B. or V.A., 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 E.A. and K.B. citizens, or between K.B. and E.B., determining large values of the quotas, but unpaid by the respective partners, the purchase of lots with considerable value, but the source of income is not legitimate, etc.
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