{"id":19750,"date":"2021-09-07T19:37:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T17:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=19750"},"modified":"2021-09-07T19:37:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T17:37:03","slug":"the-main-sector-aiding-money-laundering-practices-in-albania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/the-main-sector-aiding-money-laundering-practices-in-albania\/","title":{"rendered":"The main sector aiding money laundering practices in Albania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investing in the construction sector is the main avenue through which criminals, seeking to legalize their activities, launder their \u2018dirty money\u2019 in Albania.<\/p>\n<p>Although not old news, this bleak reality is beginning to be admitted by high public officials, like in the most recent case of the Chair of the Economic Crime at the Albanian State Police, Lutfi Minxhozi, who was invited to talk about this rising phenomenon on Euronews Albania\u2019s weekly investigative documentary series \u2018Unpublished\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>For some time now, organized crime groups in Albania have been focusing on the construction industry and the many legal loopholes that come with it, as a way to legalize their ongoing criminal activities.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from the Bank of Albania confirm for \u2018Unpublished\u2019 that our country poses a greater risk when it comes to money laundering practices. Albania is currently classified as a gray-list country, in regards to this sort of criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p>According to official reports from the Directory of Economic Crime at the State Police, from 2013-2020, a total of around \u20ac320 million euros, earned through criminal activities, have been seized during police busts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/programs\/unpublished\/2021\/05\/21\/unpublished-one-business-robbed-per-day-in-albania-12-of-crimes-are-thefts\/\">Unpublished | One business robbed per day, in Albania. Larceny makes up 12% of all annual crime<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/04\/16\/cocaine-drug-trafficking-opens-tens-of-new-companies-importing-exotic-fruits-from-latin-america\/\">Cocaine drug-trafficking opens dozens of new companies importing exotic fruits from Latin America | Unpublished<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/04\/02\/unpublished-albanian-scammers-and-the-techniques-they-use-to-fool-you\/\">Unpublished | Albanian scammers and the techniques they use to fool you<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investing in the construction sector is the main avenue through which criminals, seeking to legalize their activities, launder their \u2018dirty money\u2019 in Albania. Although not old news, this bleak reality is beginning to be admitted by high public officials, like in the most recent case of the Chair of the Economic Crime at the Albanian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":19751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[150,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The main sector aiding money laundering practices in Albania - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/the-main-sector-aiding-money-laundering-practices-in-albania\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The main sector aiding money laundering practices in Albania - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Investing in the construction sector is the main avenue through which criminals, seeking to legalize their activities, launder their \u2018dirty money\u2019 in Albania. 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