The arrested person, Lorin Xhelilaj , appeared before the Tirana Court as a suspect for fraud with serious consequences.
During the session with closed doors against the 37-year-old, the prosecutor stated that the citizen Denis Buzali had known the accused while they were on vacation in Turkey.
They met in 2022 and then had coffee.
" He told me that he knew various ministers and traded weapons. He told me to invest in Tik's foundation", denounces Buzali , "and I accepted by being persuaded to invest".
Initially, the arrested person demanded 13,000 euros for a Bulgarian passport. And then, in December 2023, he gave him 200,000 euros. After that, Lorin stopped answering the phone and cut off communications.
During the investigation of the conversations between the two, the WhatsApp conversations were managed by the police. The prosecution said that the suspect has his alibi.
"He asked me to clean one million euros that were earned from the call centers", the suspect declared.
The prosecution stated that if this alibi is true and will be proven, it will also file charges against the informant.
" There is an inaccuracy", declared the young man Lorin Xhelilaj in court, "we have taken some vacations together and I asked him what he is doing. He told me I'm It and then told me he had several call centers and dealt in bitcoin. I told him that I represent a company that deals in arms trade and that's why I have pictures of me dealing with this. He told me I want to legalize the money, at that time he needed a passport for England, I told him since I have grandparents from Dibra, I will help with a Bulgarian passport despite the fact that I don't deal with these things".
"Then I got sick and he went to the police. I was returning from Prizren and I was stopped at the border. I am a bit shocked that this has never happened to me, there is a discrepancy from the verdict of the prosecution, the delivery of the money was made by his friend and not by Buzali because he was outside of Albania ", said the suspect.