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2026-01-25 11:37:00, Aktualitet CNA

35 thousand euros to illegally enter the US / Tirana Prosecution sends 6 people

The Prosecutor's Office at the First Instance Court of General Jurisdiction of Tirana has completed the investigations and is sending citizens HM, LMCN, AP, AM and EN to trial for the criminal offenses of 'Forgery of identity cards, passports or visas', 'Forgery of a document' and 'Aid for illegal border crossing' provided for by articles 186/2, 189/2, and 293/a/2 of the Criminal Code.

From the investigations into criminal proceedings no. 2812, 2025, initiated on the basis of materials referred by the Criminal Police Department at the General Directorate of the State Police and the Diplomatic Service/Office for Criminal Investigations Outside the USA, it resulted that citizen AH, together with several other Albanian citizens, were smuggled into the Caribbean region, with the intention of subsequently illegally crossing into the United States of America.

According to the data, the person suspected of organizing this activity is the Albanian citizen HM alias AM, previously investigated for the same human smuggling activity. The data shows that this citizen has asked at least three Albanians to pay the price of 35,000 dollars in order to send them to America and Canada. The route followed by this citizen to smuggle people starts from Albania where they are recruited and then from European countries to the Dominican Republic, and from there with false documents to Canada or through Puerto Rico using false travel documents to Florida or other US states.

From the investigations, it was proven that citizen HM has provided several Albanian citizens with forged documents to illegally leave for the USA and has consumed the elements of the criminal offense of "Forgery of identity cards, passports or visas", "Forgery of a document" and "Aid for illegal border crossing" provided for by articles 186, 189 and 298 of the Criminal Code, proven in several cases. Also, from telephone interceptions it has been proven that citizen HM, while being investigated with the security measure "Arrest in prison" from the Fushë-Krujë detention facilities, has used two different numbers to communicate with his family, thus consuming the elements of the criminal offense "Introducing or keeping prohibited items in the institution for the execution of decisions with imprisonment" more than once, provided for by article 324/a/2 of the Criminal Code.

From the actions carried out, evidence has been collected that citizen LM is also involved in her husband's activity with concrete actions such as accompanying them on their trip to the Dominican Republic and including in collaboration her brother AP in receiving orders via the Tropoja - Tirana travel lines. She has committed the criminal offense of "Forgery of identity cards, passports or visas", "Forgery of a document" and "Assistance for illegal border crossing" provided for by articles 186, 189 and 298 of the Penal Code.

From the examination of the telephone records, it has been proven that the citizen EN, employed at the tourist agency, has assisted by making available photos of the documents of two foreign citizens, in order for the citizen HM, the latter to enable the crossing of different citizens using model documents. This method, used in several cases by the citizen HM, has consumed the elements of the criminal offense of “Aid for illegal border crossing” provided for by article 298 of the Criminal Code.

Likewise, citizen AP, in collaboration with his relatives, through concrete actions, obtained forged documents that would enable the illegal crossing of a citizen, consuming the elements of the criminal offenses "Forgery of identity cards, passports or visas", "Forgery of a document" and "Assistance for illegal border crossing" provided for by articles 186, 189 and 298 of the Criminal Code.

While citizen CN, being the driver of the vehicle, enabled the transport of forged documents by consuming the elements of the criminal offense of "Forgery of identity cards, passports or visas", "Forgery of a document" provided for by articles 186 and 189 of the Criminal Code committed in collaboration.

Citizen AM, by making his British passport data available to the suspect HM as a model to produce other forged documents, to enable a safer way of crossing for other citizens to flee to Canada, and with these actions has consumed the elements of the criminal offense of "Aid for illegal border crossing" provided for by Article 298 of the Criminal Code.

In accordance with the above, in accordance with Article 331 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the Prosecutor's Office at the Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction, Tirana requested the trial of the defendants:

HM, charged under Articles 186/2, 189/2, 298/3 and 324/a/2 of the Criminal Code;

LM., charged under Articles 186/2, 189/2, 298/3 of the Criminal Code;

AP, charged under Articles 186/2, 189/2, 298/3 of the Criminal Code;

CN, charged under articles 186/2, 189/2 of the Criminal Code;

AM, charged under Article 298/3 of the Criminal Code; and

EN, charged under Article 298/3 of the Criminal Code./ CNA