Even after three years of court proceedings, the Special Prosecutor’s Office continued the search for the confiscation of about 100 assets of Anton Gjinaj and persons related to him, worth more than 8 million euros, which are suspected to have the initial source of the income generated by him from the trafficking of narcotics.
The prosecutor of SPAK, Dritan Prençi, demanded in court on Wednesday the sequestration of about 100 assets of Anton Gjinaj alias Pashuk Gjin, in a process that has lasted for three years and has been continuously postponed.
The assets were seized because Gjinaj has been convicted of drug-related crimes in Spain. The Alessio 2014 company, one of the construction companies that has been contracted by various state authorities or has worked as a subcontractor in road construction, is one of the companies that SPAK estimates to have been created from the proceeds of Gjinaj’s criminal activities and that should be confiscated. Also, the confiscation of the Foralb Alabaster company was requested, in which, apart from Gjinaj, the Ministry of Economy is also a shareholder. The assets of Gjinaj and the persons related to him have been seized at the request of SPAK since July 2022.
SPAK notes that Pashuk Gjini was convicted in Spain in 2010 as a member of a criminal group from which over 50 kilograms of heroin was seized, which appeared to be destined for the market of maritime tourism areas in Alicante, Spain. He escaped from Spanish justice and came to Albania, where he was engaged in business. In 2011, he changed his name to Anton Gjinaj.
According to the prosecution, from the property investigation carried out based on the law called “Antimafia”, it appears that Gjinaj and his family have an unjustified economic level and it is suspected that these immovable or movable assets have been acquired as a result of his criminal activity that he has developed in Albania and Spain./BIRN
