Press Release

The Prosecutor's Office at Tirana District Court has registered the criminl offence no. 3230, year 2022 for the criminal offence of "Computer fraud" and "Concealment of income" provided in Articles 143/b and 180 of the Criminal Code.
Following the investigative actions in the framework of this criminal proceeding, materials related to the illegal activity of some entities with activity in the Call Center field were referred by the judicial police of the Tax Investigation Sector at the General Directorate of Taxes, which, from the information sent from their data, have been identified with suspicious activity.

From the investigative actions, it was found that in the bank accounts of the following entities with the Call Center field of operation:
 
VIBEMEDIA shpk;
FS EUROPEAN BROKER shpk;
IMPORT DATA Ltd.;
SOCIAL MEDIA PARTNERS MG shpk;
BUSINESS BROKER UNLIMITED shpk;
FINANCIAL CAPTION INTERNATIONAL shpk;
SMARTCALL ITALIA Ltd.;
STARHUB ALBANIA shpk;
BALKAN MARKETING SERVICE shpk;
ITALIA NETWORK MARKETING shpk;
BOOM BOOM NETWORK;
MARKETING UNLIMITED;
ALBANIA APP DEVELOPMENT;
"LAURENZI GROUP" Dsh; and
"COMMERCIAL PHANTOM" shpk
considerable monetary values were transferred, which were then withdrawn in cash, concealing their final destination.

From the analysis of all the investigative actions, it turned out that the administrators of the Albanian and foreign Call Center entities acted in violation of the law. The aforementioned Call Center entities have circulated monetary values which have not been reported as income to the tax authorities, thus avoiding the calculation and payment of tax obligations.
Bank transfers of these amounts to the accounts and in favour of these Call Center entities, subsequent withdrawals of large amounts of monetary values in cash, their circulation outside the banking system and non-reporting of these incomes to the control bodies of the legality of these activities, create the reasonable suspicion of having a circulation of assets with the purpose of covering the origin, true nature, source, concealing the destination, obtaining wealth illegally, thus making them subjects of the criminal offence of "Laundering the Proceeds of the criminal offence or criminal activity" provided by Article 287/2 of the Criminal Code.

Also, with their actions, the above-mentioned citizens turned out to be the people who cooperated, each playing a role of an accomplice, to establish and actually operate a scheme with illegal economic activity, thus being suspected in connection with the consumption of elements of the criminal offence of "Concealment of income" provided for by Article 180 of the Criminal Code.

For this reason, from investigations in cooperation with the Tax Investigation Sector in the General Directorate of Taxes, there were taken as defendants and sent for trial for the criminal offence of "Concealing income" and "Laundering the proceeds of a criminal offence or criminal activity" provided for by Articles 180/3 and 287/2 of the Criminal Code the Albanian and foreign citizens:

F.L., L.S., A.L., M.G.

I.M., L.F., G.T., D.A., M.F., D.O., B.M., M.L., and A.S.

The total amount of incoming bank transactions in the accounts of the companies above and undeclared is in total in the value of €5,799,010 (euro).