Unit "E" for the Investigation of Economic and Financial Crimes in the Investigative Directorate in the Department of Criminal Police in the DPPSH, in cooperation with the Tirana Local Police Directorate and the Directorate of the Special Operational Force in the DPPSH, under the direction of the Tirana Prosecutor's Office, has organized and finalized successfully coded police operation "Telegram".
During this operation, Bedri Vodha, 54 years old, and Albert Vodha, 24 years old (father and son), residents of Tirana, were arrested in the act.
Florian Gjergji, a resident of Tirana, was also declared wanted.
From the investigative actions, it was found that the citizens BV and AV would receive the amount of 100,000 Euros from a businessman. Citizen F. Gj. has organized this criminal activity, introducing himself to the businessman as a high official and asking him for the amount of money, during communications on social networks.
After the identification, citizens BV and AV were kept under observation by the operational services of the Police, until the moment when they were arrested red-handed, before taking the amount of money from the businessman.
From the in-depth investigative actions, it is suspected that these 3 citizens are authors of another similar case, which happened in March of this year, in Tirana, where by means of deception, presenting themselves as high officials, they received a a lot of money to a businessman.
As material evidence, the following were seized: 70,000 euros, 2 vehicles, 5 mobile phones, 3 SIM cards, 1 laptop, 2 USB sticks and 1 tablet.
Work continues on the capture of the citizen F. Gj. and for the complete documentation of the criminal activity carried out in cooperation with the 2 arrested citizens.
The materials were passed to the Prosecutor's Office of Tirana, for the criminal offense "Fraud", committed in collaboration.