Today, dirty money travels across borders, without stopping at customs, without questions, without a name.
They are transformed into bitcoins, distributed to dozens of virtual "wallets," and returned as clean money, ready to be invested in businesses, properties, luxury, and power. This is the most modern form of money laundering.
" There are companies like chanalasis and arkand that track these wallets, so far they have had a very good result in tracking wallets that are involved in money laundering or illegal activities, managing to identify how these funds have moved, how they have been transferred to other wallets to make it more difficult to track them ," said crypto expert Dorian Kane.
" A banking transaction is many times safer and more controllable than a wallet transaction made by individuals, since in a banking transaction the person is identified through the bank that is the intermediary and the other recipient to whom this money is transferred. Whereas in a bitcoin transaction, it is impossible to identify them since they are identified through a numeric, alphanumeric code and there is no data regarding the sender and recipient of this money ," said lawyer Dritan Jahaj.
A system built on the illusion of financial freedom, which is in fact today seen as the safest haven for organized crime.
And behind this system, there are not only people from the dark world of crime. Behind this scheme, not only blood money and trafficking money are laundered, but also those made from call center scams.
Behind this scheme are people who have never seen the stock market, but know how to manipulate the most advanced financial technology systems.
" The new methods have the "misfortune" of not having a great history and undoubtedly, the aspect of lack of knowledge, training of being at the forefront, is missing. But, as long as we are discussing it, this means that attention should be directed to this sector as well, undoubtedly the main element is international cooperation. Other countries have more history than Albania ", said pedagogue Nadia Elbasani.
" This is something that many promises make, promises that are not true, just from the way they present themselves, the way they contact you, the way they present themselves to receive a service or sell a product, these are the methods that are not used by large official sites that are licensed ," said Crypto expert Dorian Kane.
They hide behind dark-glass offices in the center of Tirana, where someone picks up a headset every day and, in a quiet voice, says to an investor somewhere in Italy: "Yes, sir. You made the right choice. You will earn a lot..."
That's where it all begins, a global scam that turns people's savings into cryptocurrencies, and then into the assets of a criminal network that only knows how to disappear without a trace.
"We were unable to recover any money at the moment. Through the mechanization of Bitcoin, it is very difficult to recover money."
This statement affirms the fact that crime is no longer on the streets, it is in the "cloud". And its traces are no longer left in safes, but in the blockchain, a digital space that few know how to read...
" It is a sector that has great difficulties and is new as a sector. And of course its development will have to be parallel also from the aspect of human resources of the state administration of state institutions. Inter-institutional cooperation and international cooperation is the key element, which makes us move in parallel with all other state bodies and other countries in terms of money laundering through cryptocurrencies ", said Nadia Elbasani./ Inside Story
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