Two of those arrested in Gjirokastër were sent to prison for defrauding foreigners for investments in fictitious stock exchanges

2023-11-12 09:49:56Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Two of those arrested in Gjirokastër were sent to prison for defrauding

The court of Gjirokastra has left in prison 2 of the 8 arrested on November 8 as part of an operation against computer fraud through fake cryptocurrency platforms.

Citizens Emiljano Paja and Alma Haruni were left in prison, while for the other 6, Eni Sula, 32 years old resident of Tirana, Mario Sota, 29 years old resident of Tirana, Erjon Hoxha, 23 years old resident of Fushë-Krujë, Saimir Brakaj, 35 years old, resident in Vlora, Fjoralba Hoxha, 27 years old, resident of Tirana, and Erjona Murrizi, 26 years old, resident of Tirana, were assigned "house arrest". 

Notification: 

The Prosecutor's Office at the Court of First Instance of the General Jurisdiction of Gjirokastër, based on the information referred by the Judicial Police Officers of the Prosecutor's Office, has on its own initiative registered criminal proceedings no. 471, of 2023, for the criminal offense "Community Fraud", provided for by Article 143/b/2 of the Criminal Code.

In the framework of this proceeding, actions were carried out by the prosecution using pro-active methods, in cooperation with the Economic and Financial Crimes investigation sector, in the Criminal Police Department, as well as in cooperation with the Directorate of the Special Operational Force, based on in which two premises were identified, which were adapted as "Call Centers", in the city of Tirana, in which the activity of defrauding foreign citizens, from several different continents, was carried out, deceiving these citizens to invest in the markets fictitious cryptocurrencies and then embezzling significant sums of money in foreign currencies.

In the framework of this criminal proceeding, on 08.11.2023, under the guidance of the Prosecutor's Office at the Court of First Instance of the General Jurisdiction Gjirokastër, the police operation was finalized in the city of Tirana, where checks were carried out in the two premises where the fraud activity took place within which 75 employees were found unregistered in the tax authorities, who cheated foreign citizens through fictitious platforms.

Seized as material evidence were 2 servers with data, 2 "DVR" devices, 75 computer devices of the laptop type, 25 computer devices of the PC type, 35 mobile devices, several notepads with the names of the defrauded persons and the amounts embezzled. , a sum of money of 13,500 euros and a luxury car of recent years, which is suspected to be the product of money laundering from fraud activity.

8 citizens were arrested in the act, who turned out to be co-owners and employees of the two "Call Center" entities, namely citizens ES 32 years old, resident in Tirana, EP 28 years old, resident in Tirana, MS, 29 years old, resident in Tirana, EH 23 years old, living in Fushë Krujë, AH 32 years old, living in Tirana, SB 35 years old, living in Vlorë, FH 27 years old, living in Tirana and EM 26 years old, living in Tirana.

The Court of First Instance of the General Jurisdiction of Gjirokastër, on 11.11.2023, has decided to validate as legal the arrests in flagrante delicto and has set the security measures "Arrest in prison", for EP and AH citizens and the security measures "Arrest at home", for ES, MS, EH, SB, FH and EM citizens


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