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The alleged multi-billion euro mafia affair, centered around the company "Bankers Petroleum", is deepening every day. After the Fier Prosecutor's Office declared incompetence, the case has now been officially taken over by SPAK, which has registered a series of serious criminal offenses, including money laundering, VAT fraud, corruption of high-ranking officials and the creation of a structured criminal group.
Journalist Klodiana Lala, invited to the show "The Unexposed" on MCN TV, confirmed that the focus of the investigation is also a second-tier bank headquartered in Austria, which is suspected of having made preferential payments to certain individuals, on behalf of the company Bankers. According to Myslim Murrizi, this bank is precisely Raiffeisen Bank, which currently also operates in Albania, but the payments were made from the headquarters in Vienna.
" Prosecutors have found that a bank in Austria has made direct payments to certain individuals. Not to Albanian companies, not for ordinary payments, but for transactions of a suspicious nature. Letters of inquiry have been sent to Raiffeisen Bank, to clarify who the beneficiaries of these payments are - individuals, officials, companies or third parties ," said Lala.
In another alarming detail, she revealed that in one case alone, 110 million euros were transferred from Bankers Petroleum accounts to offshore accounts in Hong Kong, Ireland and other countries, while no Albanian institution – including Taxes, Customs, or Financial Intelligence – reported any violations. Accounts in Albania were almost empty, while money systematically disappeared abroad.
According to SPAK, we are dealing with a structured, long-term and organized activity in a chain manner, involving company executives, state officials up to the level of ministers, as well as companies and institutions that have collaborated or tolerated the scheme.
With investigations also progressing abroad, including in Austria and offshore jurisdictions, it is expected that in the coming weeks the specific names of the beneficiaries of the staggering sums will be revealed. If SPAK's suspicions are confirmed, this could result in one of the most serious cases of the decade, where an international bank, large companies, and Albanian officials have collaborated to evade hundreds of millions of euros from Albania.
Studio conversation
Klodiana Lala: The Fier Prosecutor's Office, after signing the arrest warrant and announcing the search for other shareholders, declared incompetence and sent it to SPAK, after being faced with two moments. The Fier Prosecutor's Office claims to have found elements that implicate senior state officials up to the level of ministers and the second moment, all the persons involved in this affair, are suspected of having acted within a structured criminal group and the Special Prosecutor's Office has accepted this criminal case and has registered the criminal offenses, creation of fraudulent schemes related to value added tax, concealment of income, laundering of the proceeds of a criminal offense or criminal activity, abuse of office, failure to perform duties by tax authorities, passive corruption of senior state officials or local elected officials, structured criminal group and commission of criminal offenses by a criminal organization and a structured criminal group.
Klodiana Lala: The second part, a second-tier bank in Austria is being investigated. What were the managers and administrators of Bankers doing, besides inflating invoices in millions of euros, so for unfinished work, unfinished services, they did not pay, they came out with a loss, they did not pay taxes and duties in the Albanian state, causing terrible damage, up to 5 billion, if I'm not mistaken, it has been calculated so far.
Meanwhile, all the accounts of Bankers, or other companies, were emptied. But prosecutors have found that a second-tier bank in Austria made preferential payments to certain persons. SPAK has requested through a letter of request from this second-tier bank, all payments that were made to see, are public officials, high-ranking officials, are companies, etc. Through the letter of request, it will be understood later, also with clarity, the names or persons who received payments.
Myslim Murrizi: It is Raiffeisen Bank.
Ola Xama: Banks are required to report suspicious activity cases, whether for evasion or money laundering. When bankers pay high-ranking officials, it is suspected that a portion of the payments are intended for corruption and when they pass through the bank... At a minimum, the bank should have reported them.
Klodiana Lala : They were not made by second-tier banks in Albania. The headquarters of the bank from which the preferential payments were made are in Vienna.
The other big scandal, in just one transaction, 110 million euros was made offshore, in Hong Kong, Ireland and other countries, where the money went from Albania and no one from the institutions, taxes, customs, financial investigation institutions, financial intelligence, raised the alarm, to say, how is it possible that Bankers' money is going offshore? Just one transfer has passed 110 million euros. Imagine how many million euros have passed. It is impossible to return them, because with offshore companies the final beneficiary is not known.
The prosecution says that the way they operated was like a chain of links, being a continuous criminal activity, prolonged in time, between the same people and between the same companies involved, we have doubts, says the special prosecution, that we are facing a structured criminal group.
Rrofte PS-PD qe na kane udhehequr nga fitorja ne fitorje me Bankersin qe na e gerryen kusine deri ne fund dhe na rrofte qe kemi pasuri Naften,qe per 20 nuk i marrim asnje lek Tatim Fitim. Me mire do te ishte te mos e kishim dhene me koncesion,te nxirrnim sa te nxirrnim me ato metodat e para dhe me mire do na dilte se sa me keta hajduter te pa ngopur,qe asgje nuk lejne per kete popull te varfer qe arratiset nga syte kembet. Mallkuar qofshin ata Qeveritar qe kane nenshkruar dhe lejuar te tille Koncesione.
Për një vjedhje në llogari të firmës që unë drejtoja unë u dënova me heqje Lirije, sepse ai që m'i mori në bashkëpunim me bankën ishte pjesë e këtij grupi që thoni ju. Më thonë pse se ndjekë tani por mua nuk më lanë lek për bukë jo më të paguaj tani. Këta po të vunë përpara jo që nuk të jo që nuk të zgjidhin po të vrasin. Unë nuk kam frikë nga vdekja por nuk kam zgjidhje.
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rrofte qeveria rrofte liria , rrofshin hajdutet ,kusaret mashtrusit dredharet, ky vend nuk ka zot .po zoti i bete gazep te gjithe.