Four managers of two call centers in Tirana, where 29 citizens worked, 10 of them unregistered, have been put this Tuesday in handcuffs by the police. During the operation, the officers found and seized 9000 euros, 82 computer units, 23 mobile phones, 1 DVR, 2 USB sticks and 50 cards with mobile phone numbers.
In the meantime, work continues to catch the administrators of these entities, who had fictitiously registered other legal activities, while the income benefited from fraud was laundered through other businesses.
Afterwards, the procedural materials were passed to the Prosecutor’s Office at the Court of First Instance of the General Jurisdiction in Tirana for further actions.
“As a result of continuous controls, based on police intelligence information that was obtained following the “Rule of Law” mega-operation, as well as carried out with the objective of identifying and cracking down on cases of computer fraud, through call centers, it was organized and the coded “De facto” police operation was finalized.
During the operation: 2 other entities where this criminal activity was carried out were discovered, citizens 31 years old, 31 years old, 30 years old and 34 years old, all four residents of Tirana, in charge of 2 call centers, were arrested, and they were declared wanted. administrators of these entities, citizens.
The investigations showed that these citizens, through 2 call center economic entities in the capital, which were fictitiously registered, as other legal commercial activities, deceived citizens in different continents, mainly during night hours, to invest significant sums of money, in fictitious markets.
Also, from the investigations, it is suspected that the income generated from this criminal activity was laundered through the businesses of the relatives of the citizens implicated in these cases.
From the checks, 10 unregistered employees were found in both call centers, as well as seized as material evidence: 9,000 euros, 82 computer units, 23 cell phones, 1 DVR, 2 USB, 50 cards with cell phone numbers, belonging to the companies foreign currency, and other documents that will serve the investigation.
The work continues for the capture of citizens as well as in the direction of the Prosecutor’s Office, intensive investigations continue to identify and arrest other citizens who may have been involved in this criminal activity, as well as to seize the assets obtained in violation of the law”, said the police.
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