
The prestigious British media, "Daily Mail" has raised the alarm regarding the government's fiscal amnesty project in our country, warning that Albania will become a 'money laundering haven' for drug lords based in the United Kingdom, " under laws that enable them to hide hundreds of millions in the proceeds of criminal activity in real estate investments."
In an article published online on December 24, the Daily Mail points out that the Albanian Government is introducing a 'fiscal and criminal amnesty', which will allow anyone to declare assets of up to two million euros without having to reveal the origin of the money. .
"This comes after a Daily Mail investigation revealed that drug barons operating in Britain have laundered large sums of money in luxury villas, flats, farmland, gyms, bars and even a petrol station in Albania.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) - Britain's FBI - has warned that the amount of crime money leaving the UK has increased 'exponentially' over the past four or five years, fueled by Albanian drug gangs sending money in their homes.
Dirty money is believed to have fueled a construction boom in Albania, with the value of property building permits in the country's capital, Tirana, rising from £112m in the first quarter of 2021 to £206m in the same period this year. year", the article emphasizes.
According to the Daily Mail, organized crime gangs are suspected of using a variety of methods to get money out of Britain, including using travel agencies to traffic money, hiding tens of thousands of pounds in the back of televisions or stuffing the wheels of trucks with banknotes.
The NCA said Albanian drug gangs had led to an increase in dirty money leaving Britain.
NCA intelligence manager Steve Brocklesby said: 'Their main objective when they make money is to get it out of the country as quickly as possible, so they smuggle it from the UK to Albania in whatever form it comes. '
