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31 thousand euro Bitcoin fraud, the Prosecution suspended the investigation; the perpetrator is elusive

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Fiks fare brought the story of an Albanian stewardess working in the Kingdom of Bahrain, who told how an Albanian fraudulently extorted 31,000 euros from her, luring her to invest in cryptocurrency.

The stewardess, who asked to remain anonymous, said she was deceived by an Albanian citizen, who introduced himself as Marsel, but with two different surnames, sometimes Dhroso and sometimes Stefa.

This scam story began in July 2018 when the flight attendant met her scammer on a website called InterNations, where she had an account. He initially introduced himself as an investment banker and said he would be appointed as the general manager of HSBC International Bank for the Persian Gulf.

At first, this citizen called her and told her that he was at the "Marriot" hotel and that his documents and wallet had been stolen, and for this reason he requested a sum of money through the bank, and the girl, giving him her bank card details, also gave him the three-digit security code.

He then contacted a girl who introduced herself as Marcel's sister, who was studying in the US, and after months of conversations with both of them, he was convinced to invest in cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. They offered him some documents from a bank, which later turned out not to exist and all the invoices they sent were fake.

The transactions continued with different amounts and the total amount that the Albanian stewardess had lost was €31,000. But while she was investing and had not received any profit back, the Albanian girl began to doubt and asked him to return her investment. The fraud continued, Marseli told her that he was sick with a tumor and that he would be hospitalized in a hospital in Bahrain. After realizing that everything was false, she reported him in Bahrain and Turkey and then in Albania.

The girl presented the Tirana police with a copy of the documents the person had given her. It was a passport in the name of citizen Marsel Dhroso. When the Tirana police verified the passport, they found that he had previously been convicted of fraud and referred the case to the Pogradec prosecutor's office.

The stewardess says she reported him in Albania, but the prosecution has suspended the investigation for 6 years, with the excuse that they cannot find the perpetrator. Meanwhile, in Albania, a person with the same general characteristics as the girl's deceiver has been convicted three times by Albanian courts. The Pogradec prosecution did not conduct any research to determine whether it is the same person or not.

Fiks Fare requested information about the investigations launched by the Pogradec prosecution 6 years ago.

In its response, the Korça prosecution pointed to the decision to suspend the investigations by the former prosecutor in the case, Dorina Bejko.

The prosecution has only been investigating for 4 months the fraud that the person introduced himself as Marsel but with 2 surnames, Sefa and Dhroso, had committed against the Albanian stewardess.

The prosecutor says in the suspension decision that she has sent a letter of request to the Kingdom of Bahrain and Turkey, countries in which, according to the complainant, her fraudster lived.

Since November 7, 2019, when the Pogradec prosecution suspended the investigations, no other investigative action has been taken by this body in the case of the Albanian stewardess.

The person with the general title Marsel Dhroso, denounced by the stewardess for fraud, is not unknown to the former prosecutor's office of Pogradec and Korça. In 2019, the Korça police announced that Marsel Dhroso was wanted for the criminal offense of fraud in collaboration.

Meanwhile, a person with the same genius, Marsel Dhroso, has been investigated and tried by 3 Albanian courts, the courts of Pogradec, Fier and Tirana.

In 2010, the first instance court of Pogradec sentenced him to 2 years in prison for fraud. The Tirana Court of Appeal decided to combine the sentences given to Dhroso by the first instance courts of Pogradec and Tirana and sentenced him to 2 and a half years in prison, considering him a repeat offender, as he had been convicted twice for the same criminal offense.

In 2022, the Fier Court of First Instance issued a summons for retrial for the defendant Marsel Dhroso.

Even though his name appears in several criminal proceedings, the Korça Prosecutor's Office suspended the investigation launched after the stewardess's denunciation with the justification that it is awaiting letters of demand sent in 2019 to the Kingdom of Bahrain and Turkey, even though the stewardess' lawyer has asked her several times to verify whether it is the same person who has been convicted 3 times by Albanian courts. So, in no case did the prosecution verify whether it was the same person.

At the end of her story, the Albanian girl makes a call: "Do not fall prey to this person's deception, his deceptions must end!"/Fixed completely 

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