The incinerator of Tirana/ SPAK comes out with the official announcement: Prison arrest for 8 people

2024-07-16 13:08:00, Aktualitet CNA

The incinerator of Tirana/ SPAK comes out with the official announcement: Prison

The Special Prosecutor's Office against Corruption and Organized Crime is continuing the investigations related to criminal proceedings no. 255, of 2020, with the object of investigation concession contract no. 6597 prot, dated 31.08.2017, "Construction of Landfill, Incinerator and Rehabilitation of Existing Landfill Site, Tirana", related to the assistance of the Contracting Authority, Ministry of Environment and the company "Integrated Energy BV SPV" sh.pk, with the investment cost provided by the company concessionaire in the amount of 128,248,330 (one hundred and twenty-eight million, two hundred and forty-eight thousand, three hundred and thirty) Euros, excluding VAT.

Following the previous announcements, up to this stage of the preliminary investigations, there have been other criminal facts evidenced during the period of implementation of the concession contract, for which the notification of criminal offenses has been recorded in the criminal register, "Cleaning of products of the criminal offense or criminal activity", carried out in the special cooperation in the form of a structured criminal group, "Structured criminal group" and "Commitment of criminal offenses by a criminal organization and a structured criminal group", provided by articles 287 letter "a ” and “b”, 28/4, 333/a and 334 of the Criminal Code.

From the administered acts, it was found that they were cleaned as proceeds of the criminal offense in the amount of approximately 20,000,000 (twenty million) Euros, specifically divided into the sums of:

1,214,867,060 (one billion two hundred and fourteen million, eight hundred and sixty seven thousand and sixty) Lek;

9,456,093 (nine million four hundred and fifty-six thousand and ninety-three) Euros.

The criminal activity of cleaning the proceeds of the criminal offense, turns out to have been carried out continuously starting from the moment of the conclusion of the concession contract using different mechanisms and forms set up by the organizers of this criminal activity, with Albanian and foreign citizens participating. who acted in cooperation in the special form of structured criminal group.

The participants of this structured criminal group have benefited from the above monetary values, as products of the criminal offense, by taking the monetary values ??from the bank account of the concessionaire company "Integrated Energy BV SPV" sh.pk, thanks to fraud through the creation of fictitious invoices , thanks to fictitious companies created inside and outside the country, as well as through the withdrawal of monetary values ??in cash.

After carrying out the investigations and analyzing the evidence, on 29.06.2024, the Special Prosecutor's Office addressed the Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime, with the request for the determination of the security measure against 8 citizens (Albanians and foreigners), who are suspected of committing the criminal offenses "Fraud", with serious consequences, "Cleaning of the proceeds of the criminal offense or criminal activity", carried out in the special cooperation within the structured criminal group, "Structured criminal group ", "Commitment of criminal offenses by criminal organizations and structured criminal groups", provided by articles 143/3, 287 letters "a" and "b", 28/4, 333/a and 334 of the Criminal Code. The Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime with decision no. 69, dated 12.07.2024, set the security measure "arrest in prison" against eight citizens with the initials DY, GC, DT, ML, MD, ID, EH and RN

At the head of the structured criminal group are the citizens of KZ and MM, against whom the security measure "arrest in prison" has been assigned.

On 12.07.2024, the Special Prosecutor's Office ordered the General Directorate of the State Police to execute the security measures determined by decision no. 69, dated 12.07.2024, of the Special Court of First Instance for Corruption and Organized Crime.

We underline that, on 15.07.2024, the State Police informed the Special Prosecutor's Office about the impossibility of executing personal security measures against the above citizens.

Investigations continue with the aim of evidencing the responsibility of other persons involved in the commission of criminal offences./ CNA