The Court of Tirana has accepted the request of the Prosecution for the sequestration as criminal assets of the company EURO – BETON 2005 shpk, which turns out to be involved in money laundering, fraud schemes and concealment of income. Filed as the main “concrete factory” in Tirana for laundering drug money, corruption and fraudulent schemes, the decision to seize the EURO-BETON 2005 company was made on April 24, 2026.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Tirana launched a months-long investigation into the suspected criminal activity of the Euro Beton 2005 company after being alerted by Albanian and partner law enforcement bodies. The investigation revealed the laundering of tens of millions of euros, a several-year fraud scheme, tax evasion, etc., criminal offenses committed by a suspected criminal group, but the file was not referred to SPAK for competence.
Even though the owners of the company turn out to be a cover for the money of dangerous criminal groups, SPAK has been kept away from this file. Not only that. However, even the news of the seizure has not been made public, while the company’s managers have not only escaped arrest, but continue their criminal activity, especially by defrauding various businessmen.
Behind the company Euro Beton 2005 are the Italians Pietro Telesca and Giovanni Battista Telesca (Giovanni of Euro Beton), known as one of the most famous fraudsters in Tirana. Giovanni Battista Telesca results from the investigation that he has defrauded a number of businessmen in Tirana, extorting millions of euros, while he is the key person who maintains ties with criminal groups for money laundering in construction.
The Albanian partners are Arjan Ormenaj and Bujar Gazheli, the latter known as a friend of Edi Rama, beneficiary of tens of millions of euros of public money in health, through the company Albanian Medical Distributor (AMD), a derivative of a suspicious Italian company.
Who is Bujar Gazheli?
The businessman Bujar Gazheli is suspected to be the key person behind the EURO – BETON 2005 company, which according to the Prosecutor’s Office file served as a funnel for dirty money. Bujar Gazhelit is behind an Italian-Albanian pharmaceutical group, disguised as the Albanian Medical Distributor company.
Gazheli is the founder and shareholder of the company ECOBI ALBANIA, together with the Italian Giuseppe Paolo Lungaro. The company camouflages a pharmaceutical warehouse. Both companies have not published their activity balances in taxes for 10 years, raising strong doubts about their activity.
In 2025, Gazheli was appointed as the man predetermined by Edi Rama to receive the hemodialysis service concession. Bujar Gazheli of Euro Beton has also founded the import and export company of drugs and parapharmaceutical products FOUR PETALS.
Bujar Gazheli is also behind the construction company ACHC group (Albanian Civil & Healthcare Construction Group). The company was founded in 2015 under the name ALBANIAN HOSPITAL SERVICE, changed to ACHC group, through which several buildings were built in Tirana.
Bujar Gazheli is also a shareholder in the other construction company SEFBI KONSTRUKSION, founded in 1999. This company also has not published activity balances for 10 years.
Bujar Gazheli is also behind the construction and excavation company DAMASO, founded in 2005. Gazheli is also the owner of the LYCEE FRANCAIS JULES VERNE school in Tirana, through the company École Française Jules Verne.
The shareholder of the money laundering company Euro Beton 2005 is also the owner of the company Ecole Française “NOTRE DAME”, with the object of activity in the field of children’s education as a preschool educational institution, until the end of the high school cycle. The company founded in 2011 is inactive. Gazheli is also a shareholder in the construction company.
Partner Arjan Ormenaj filed for money laundering
Arjan Ormenaj has been identified as the key person who launders the money of the criminal group Çopja, hit by SPAK. The verifications show that the companies “Elba Beton” and “Elba Import”, founded by a member of the Çopja criminal group, Arben Lamçja alias Dobrova, have been transferred to the name of businessman Arjan Ormenaj.
Arjan Ormenaj
According to the file of the Prosecution of Serious Crimes, Arjan Ormenaj, who today is also the administrator of both companies, is suspected of covering Arben Lamçe’s companies, which laundered the money of criminal activity, exploitation of prostitution, cocaine trafficking and paid murder.
The companies “Elba Beton” and “Elba Import”, today in the name of Arjan Ormenaj, it turns out that they have circulated tens of millions of euros, money suspected of having been injected into these companies by criminal activity. Arjan Ormenaj manages a cartel of companies with dubious activities, while he owns in his name restaurants, bars, apartments and businesses worth tens of millions of euros from Elbasan to Tirana.
Arjan Ormenaj entered into transactions and also bought shares from Bekim Halilaj, a well-known figure in the corrupt affairs of Ilir Meta. Arjan Ormenaj has also obtained concessions for hydropower plants, while he is building in Qerret i Kavaja with several companies in his name. Arjan Ormenaj is not the only businessman who is suspected of covering the assets and businesses of the Çopja criminal group. For years, the criminal group has managed to recruit judges, police, prosecutors, etc., buying justice and escaping the action of the law./ Backstage
