The Special Court has once again rejected Arben Meskuti's request for a change in the security measure "prison arrest".
The latter is being held in custody for the Microcredit file, under suspicion of defrauding thousands of debtor citizens through microcredits. Meskuti is the owner of several financial companies that set up a pyramid scheme.
The criminal proceedings for the microcredit fraud scheme began in February 2020 by the Tirana prosecution, following a report filed by the Ministry of Justice, where the prosecution discovered that the 5 companies Micro Credit Albania, ADCA, SHP Zig, FS, FLASH, received from a second-tier bank 3,999 loans considered bad and unpaid over the years with a total amount of around 7.3 million euros.
In December of last year, the Tirana prosecutor's office declared incompetence over the microcredit file, referring it to the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office.