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SPAK, new strategy to combat organized crime and corruption...
The Special Prosecution Office has strengthened its ranks to crack down on organized crime and corruption. A short while ago, a work strategy was drafted for the period 2024-2027, which outlines the goals and objectives of SPAK in strengthening the fight against crime and corruption. It was “ Pamphlet ” that revealed this strategy on Sunday, while today we are providing more details.
The document signed by Altin Dumani states that corruption and organized crime have reached a high level of sophistication and that SPAK must therefore be more involved. It states that both groups are hiding money "off-shore".
" Both organized crime and corruption of high-ranking officials have a high level of sophistication. After investigating a number of cases, it was noted that Albanian criminal groups had increased their level of cooperation with international criminal organizations and with countries of origin of hard drug production. On the other hand, forms of money laundering, which have now begun to extend to offshore jurisdictions, place SPAK in the face of various difficulties, both in investigating cases and in cooperating with law enforcement agencies. The main challenge remains increasing capacities in the fight against money laundering, taking into account Albania's inclusion in the "grey" list of money laundering by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and MONEYVAL in February 2020 ," Dumani emphasizes in the document.
In the document, SPAK has taken the years in turn, providing details on how the work of prosecutors has been improved from year to year. It is noted, for example, that during 2023, SPAK was oriented towards increasing exhaustive investigations of the most influential criminal organizations in the Albanian criminal markets and investigating the corruption of former senior officials. In addition to this objective, another objective was to increase the efficiency of SPAK, where importance would be given to a new investigative approach and a clearer orientation of the structure's policies, through the adoption of a series of by-laws of the Special Prosecution Office and joint orders with the BKH. According to SPAK, for this purpose, the Financial Investigation Sector was established with its first 12 investigators, who qualitatively raised the standards of investigation.
" The improvement of the quality of financial investigation made the Special Prosecution Office one of the main institutions and play an important role in Albania's exit from the MONEYVAL grey list in October 2023, by increasing the number of seizures and confiscations of money laundering products, as well as contributing to all reports or working groups established for this purpose. The Special Prosecution Office has also tried to increase its infrastructural capacities, by already providing an additional building, which is in the phase of its furnishing and internal organization ," the document states.
Details are also provided there on the risks and threats facing this structure, which we will reveal in the coming days. /Pamphlet
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