SPAK prosecutor Ened Nakuçi in a statement to the media has given details about a structured cyber group that cheated and took money from Italian citizens.
In his speech, Nakuçi stated that this is a fraud scheme that was discovered in the framework of a collaboration with the Italian authorities and that it is a continuation of the investigations of an operation previously developed in this direction.
Among other things, he states that the group was well formed and had very convincing techniques to deceive innocent citizens.
"It has become possible to issue 14 measures of house arrest and prison for Albanian citizens within a criminal group that engages in defrauding citizens through online sales. This is a continuation of the October operation, and following it, 14 other arrest warrants were issued for cyber security in international police cooperation.
They are the result of actions after controls and seizures that were made on October 25, 2022 in a Call Center on Dritan Hoxha street. The important thing is that since that moment, about 140 reports have been administered, which results in the amount given being up to 4 million and 700 thousand euros. I want to clarify that the investigations started after the denunciations in Italy and then the whole scheme came to light. At first they contacted them by phone and then through fraud they made these people think they would get rich, seeing the profits through different platforms the criminal group made the fraud more credible.
These are related to decisive persons who are managers of call centers, and operator managers in these institutions, the analysis of the accounts shows that the victims' money was returned to cryptocurrency, the group operated according to a correct procedure, the operators who received a monthly salary and within of contracts and bonds, which had a group leader who reported to the supervisor. It was a system so that the operators did not trust each other and were in a race to deceive as many innocent citizens as possible", he said.