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Journalist Klodiana Lala has stated that organized crime has laundered money in Albania, using banks and currency exchange offices. She cited several cases where an attempt was made to take a bank director hostage, while officials did not intervene.
Lala said that currently one of the DEA agents has been stationed here for months and is working for criminal groups that are based in Latin America.
According to her, those involved in money laundering are banks, lawyers, financial authorities and Exchange.
" We have one of the DEA agents who has been stationed here for months and is working for criminal groups that are based in Latin America. The risk of dirty money coming to Albania is very high."
We don't have a clear picture of whether they have hidden assets abroad. Dritan Gjika has no assets seized in Albania. He either has them in crypto or invested in another country.
Armando Pacani, I've been to the house where his mother lives, it's no more than 60 m2, with communist furniture. Authorities say he earned millions of euros from selling cocaine. Where is the money? It's invested somewhere. We only have the tip of the iceberg.
These groups have a network of experts behind them, lawyers, cooperation with exchanges, banks, and financial authorities.
If you try to deposit 10 thousand euros in a bank, they ask for document after document. Meanwhile, how is it possible that 1-5 million euros moves and no money laundering officer notices it? Exchange networks, or notaries, are suspected of being involved in these laundering schemes.
The Pepa group had 4 million euros disappear from the notary's account, they were planning to take the director of a bank hostage. This may have happened and not been reported.
"The other issue is the implication of officials. A company comes to invest 100 million euros while the company's balance sheet is very low," Lala told "TPZ".
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