The Prosecutor's Office of Tirana has completed the investigation of an Albanian citizen and three foreigners, taking them to trial.
Jozefina Gjoni, Saverio Ciampi, Claudio Cuchi and Manrico Erriu are accused of setting up a company in Albania with the aim of laundering money illegally deposited in Spain.
Announcement of the Prosecutor's Office of Tirana:
The Prosecutor's Office of Tirana has completed the investigations and has filed charges against an Albanian and three foreigners, who are accused of setting up Albanian companies to launder illegally obtained money in Spain.
The Prosecutor's Office at the Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction, Tirana completed the investigations for the citizen J.Gj., and the foreign citizens SC, CC, and ME, under the charge of the criminal offense of 'Cleaning the proceeds of a criminal offense or criminal activity' carried out in cooperation provided by article 287, second paragraph of the Criminal Code.
From the investigations carried out on criminal proceedings no. 1950, of 2021, it turned out that the persons in question are also under investigation by the Spanish authorities for economic crimes through various companies in Tenerife, Spain.
Referring to the act of accounting expertise, carried out for the benefit of the investigation, it was proven beyond any reasonable doubt that all the defendants have cooperated with each other by creating companies in Albania, for the laundering of illegally obtained money in Spain, or even in other countries such as Italy or Switzerland, since the expert report showed that financial transactions were carried out between companies that have the same Albanian or foreign name.
The investigation showed that through the creation of commercial companies as well as through the circulation of money in the bank, these citizens tried to clean the proceeds of the criminal offense, simulating the activity carried out by them as legal.
It was proven that the companies in Albania, which served the defendants to commit the criminal offense provided for by Article 287 of the Criminal Code, were created after these citizens previously created other companies in Spain, for which they are under investigation for committing the criminal offense of "Fraud".
This fact is proven not only by the dates of establishment of companies in Albania, but also by the fact that some of the companies established in Albania are daughter companies of foreign ones and bear the same name.
The defendants have intentionally created companies in Albania, investing the illegally obtained money in Spain, also deriving benefits from the illegal action done by them.