The Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPAK) has requested the confiscation of real estate on behalf of 15 persons investigated for drug trafficking and criminal groups between Albania and Italy.
Through a press release, SPAK informs that the investigations have started from Antimafia in Florence.
SPAK has identified in Albania 76 assets placed by them and several bank accounts.
SPAK announcement:
The Special Prosecutor’s Office against Corruption and Organized Crime has registered property proceedings no. 02 dated 26.01.2024, in charge of citizens Fael Muka, Xulio Kastrati, Kledjon Mucollari, Ervis Vangjeli, Kristian Ibrahimaj, Alban Mahilaj, Klaudia Sulejmani, Besmir Selamaj, Altin Ymeraj, Mark Lisi, Ani Kuci, Daniel Elezi, Erando Mara, Indrit Kolgjokaj, Endri Sercan and the other persons investigated within this criminal investigation as well as their family members.
From the administered acts, it appears that on 19.10.2021, the Special Prosecutor’s Office against Corruption and Organized Crime registered criminal proceedings no. 270 of 2021, for the criminal offenses of “Trafficking in narcotics” committed in the special form of a structured criminal group, “Cleaning of the proceeds of a criminal offense or criminal activity” and “Structured criminal group”, provided for by articles 283/ a, 287 and 333/a of the Criminal Code.
After the exchange of data between the Special Prosecutor’s Office against Corruption and Organized Crime and the Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Florence, the Anti-Mafia Section, Italy, with the mediation of Eurojust, has agreed to create a Joint Investigation Team. In the following, the agreement for the creation of the Joint Investigation Team between the Special Prosecutor’s Office against Corruption and Organized Crime and the Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Florence, Anti-Mafia Section, Italy, was signed.
From the investigative acts, it results that the Italian authorities of justice, specifically the Florence Prosecutor’s Office and the verifications carried out by the Special Prosecutor’s Office in Albania, have administered data on some Albanian and Italian citizens, who operate within the framework of a structured criminal group, with the aim of trafficking narcotics from Albania to Italy and then distributing it in Italy. Also from the investigation, data was administered that the money obtained illegally from the criminal activity of the members of this criminal group was invested in the territory of the Republic of Albania.
In the framework of this joint JIT investigation, on 05.02.2024, operation “Muratori” was undertaken in several states under the coordination of Eurojust, the Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Florence and the Special Prosecutor’s Office, and 92 personal security measures were executed, 65 of which for Albanian citizens and all the assets of these citizens in the Republic of Albania are documented.
Identified assets owned by citizens; Fael Muka, Xjulio Kastrati, Kledjon Mucollari, Ervis Vangjeli, Kristian Ibrahimaj, Alban Mahilaj, Klaudia Sulejmani, Besmir Selamaj, Altin Ymeraj, Mark Lisi, Ani Kuci, Daniel Elezi, Erando Mara, Indrit Kolgjokaj, Endri Sercan and their families, immovable or movable have an unjustified economic level and have acquired them as a result of their criminal activity developed in Albania and Italy.
In the conditions when the assets subject to a request for confiscation are assets that meet the criteria provided in Articles 3, 7, 11, 12, 14 and 15 of Law No. 10192 dated 03.12.2009 “On the Prevention and Punishment of Organized Crime, Trafficking and Corruption” through preventive measures against wealth” – amended, the Special Prosecutor’s Office against Corruption and Organized Crime, at the end of the process of asset verifications, requests on 25.10.2024 the Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime, as follows :
Confiscation and transfer in favor of the state of assets as follows:
43 (forty three) vehicles
4 (four) motor vehicles
18 (eighteen) real estate
25 (twenty-five) commercial entities such as; SH.P.K (Limited Liability Company) and P.F (Physical Person)
6 (six) joint stock companies – specifically the confiscation of the tax percentages of the investigated persons and their family members
Bank accounts in all second level banks of the investigated persons as well as their family members
