The Special Prosecutor’s Office against Corruption and Organized Crime in Tirana has completed preliminary investigations for criminal proceedings no. 121 of 2021, for the criminal offenses of “Computer Fraud”, to the detriment of several persons, in cooperation in the form of a structured criminal group, “Creation of the structured criminal group”, provided as a criminal offense by articles 143/b/2, 28/4, 333/a/1 and 334/1 of the Criminal Code.
This proceeding was registered after the Italian judicial authorities, specifically the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Pordenone, Italy, were investigating a criminal group involved in conducting transactions by means of computer fraud, these offenses also provided for in the Albanian criminal legislation, from articles 143/b, 28/4, 33/a and 334 of the Criminal Code.
Furthermore, the Special Prosecutor’s Office against Corruption and Organized Crime and the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of Pordenone, Italy, have signed on 22.04.2021 the creation of a Joint Investigation Team.
From the investigations initially carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office of Pordenone, Italy, it resulted that the Postal Police Section of Pordenone had identified that a criminal group had a call center located in Tirana (Albania), where it used many operators to contact a large number of people living in Italy. People were contacted by phone, they were offered the online purchase of “Amazon” shares with the untrue promise of earning large and fast sums.
At the moment when the informed customer accepted the investment signature, an e-mail was sent to him containing a link through which he was connected to start buying the titles.
Among other things, the investigations revealed that the criminal group was very careful in order not to be detected, it performed the “AnyDesk” connection on the personal computers of the victims, using an Italian server of the provider Aruba, which in fact guaranteed concealment the real IP address from which the communication originated, making the server a single “node” for all communications.
This criminal group was suspected to have exercised its activity until the months of April or May of 2022, where it also closed the activity of the Call Center, with the address “Don Bosco” street.
The investigation shows that other Albanian and foreign persons are also involved in this illegal activity, for whom the investigations continue within the framework of separate criminal proceedings No. 121/1 of 2021, for the same criminal offenses.
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