They took a person hostage with the intention of gaining wealth/ Tirana Prosecution sends 4 people to trial

2025-10-16 09:27:00, Aktualitet CNA

They took a person hostage with the intention of gaining wealth/ Tirana

The Tirana Prosecution Office has completed its investigations and sent to trial four people accused of kidnapping and holding a person hostage with the aim of obtaining property. Among those sent to trial is the girl who trapped the kidnapped person.

The individuals in question forcibly took citizen EV into a car and took him to an old apartment, where they demanded the sum of 2 million lek, claiming that he had harassed the cohabitant of one of the kidnappers.

Three of the suspects then called the kidnapped person's wife, who sent them the money. The four men threatened citizen EA, saying that if the payment was not made, they would send photos of him and citizen NB, his wife, to destroy his family and then kill him.

Prosecutor's Office Announcement:

The Prosecutor's Office at the Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction, Tirana, completed the investigations and sent to trial four citizens SS, IM, KS, and NB for the criminal offense of 'Kidnapping or holding a person hostage' provided for by article 109/25 of the Criminal Code.

The investigations into criminal proceedings no. 2978, registered on 30.04.2025, began after the complaint of citizen AV, who reported that her brother, citizen EV, had called his wife and asked her to pay 2 million lek as soon as possible because his life was in danger and only then could he return home.

The investigations revealed that citizens SS, NB, IM and KS planned the kidnapping of citizen EA and carried it out with the aim of obtaining wealth. The investigations proved that near the Tirana Pedagogical School, at the moment when citizen EV was with citizen NB, they approached a black Golf-type vehicle and forcibly put her in the vehicle, where they also put a hood over her head, and took her to another, distant location.

After taking him to an old apartment, they tied his hands and demanded the sum of 2 million lekë, claiming that citizen E. A had harassed citizen NB (the cohabitant of citizen SS). The three suspects then communicated by phone with the wife of the injured party/victim, citizen MA, who sent the suspects the sum of money.

These four people threatened citizen EA, telling him that if the payment was not made, they would send him photos of him and citizen NB, his wife, to destroy his family and then kill him.

At the conclusion of the investigations, the Prosecutor's Office at the Court of First Instance of General Jurisdiction, Tirana, proved that citizens SS, NB, IM and KS have committed the criminal offense of 'Kidnapping or holding a person hostage' provided for by Article 109/25 of the Criminal Code, which provides that; kidnapping or holding a person hostage with the aim of acquiring property or any other type of benefit, to prepare the creation of mitigating conditions for the commission of a crime, to assist in the concealment or removal of perpetrators or collaborators in the commission of a crime, to avoid punishment, to force the fulfillment of certain requests or conditions, for political purposes or any other purpose, is punishable by imprisonment from ten to twenty years. /CNA