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Three people have been arrested by the Fier police, suspected of engaging in foreign exchange activities without a license.
Ramazan Koçiu, 64, a resident of Lushnja, as well as Edmond Shkurti, 67, and Abaz Idrizi, 57, both residents of Fier, were arrested. According to police, they were caught red-handed conducting currency exchange in violation of the law.
During the checks, the blue uniforms seized significant amounts of money in various currencies, including 4,200,000 lekë, 17,300 euros, 1,400 pounds, 300 dollars, 200 francs and 2,500 kronor.
The operation comes as part of continuous field controls and verifications of various entities, with the aim of identifying and cracking down on activities that take place informally.
"They were illegally carrying out foreign exchange activities, 3 citizens were caught red-handed and put in handcuffs. Considerable amounts of money in different currencies (lek, euro, dollar, pound and franc) were seized. Specialists of the Economic and Financial Crimes Investigation Section of the Fier Police Department, following field checks and verifications in various entities, to identify and crack down on activities carried out informally, organized and finalized, in cooperation with the services of the Special Operational Force, the police operation codenamed "Transaction".
As part of this operation, the following citizens were arrested: -RK, 64 years old, resident of Lushnja; -E. Sh., 67 years old, resident of Fier; -AI, 57 years old, resident of Fier. These citizens are suspected of carrying out currency exchange activities in Fier and Lushnja, without a license from the competent authorities. During the physical search of these citizens and the search of their homes, 4,200,000 lek, 17,300 euros, 1,400 pounds, 300 dollars, 200 francs, 2,500 crowns were found, which were seized as material evidence, along with 5 mobile phones. Following the actions in this case, citizen EK, 67 years old, was placed under investigation, after a small amount of money obtained from illegal exchange was found during the physical search.
The procedural materials were referred to the Prosecutor's Office for further investigation, for the criminal offenses "Practice of financial activities without a license" and "Laundering of the proceeds of a criminal offense or criminal activity", the police announced.
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