Another fraud group through the Call Center has been hit by the Special Prosecutor’s Office, which has issued a total of 11 arrest warrants.
The investigation is part of a proceeding started in 2021, for the same Call Center “Bluenergycall”, owned by Redian Kukë, with offices in a shopping center on Kavaja street in Tirana.
SPAK has executed 8 security measures, 3 of which prison arrest, 3 house arrest and 2 forced to appear. Meanwhile, 3 people failed to be arrested during the controls ordered by SPAK.
It is about an investigation launched in cooperation with the Prosecutor’s Office of Bamberg in Germany since 2021, while the first checks on the premises of the Call Center were carried out in March 2022.
The current proceeding has been separated from the initial file, while hundreds of German citizens and other European countries are suspected of having fallen prey to the fraud scheme through investments in fictitious stock exchanges.
Full notice of SPAK
The security measures implemented are as follows:
Gj, G.Sh and EP – “Arrest with prison”, as persons suspected of committing a criminal offense; “Computer fraud”, in collaboration, to the detriment of several persons, in the form of a structured criminal group, “Structured criminal group”, “Commitment of criminal offenses by a criminal organization and a structured criminal group”, provided for by articles 143/b/2, 28/4, 333/a/2 and 334/1 of the Code Criminal.
G. KB and IG – “House arrest”, provided by article 237 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, suspected of the criminal offense of “Computer fraud”, in cooperation, in the form of a structured criminal group, “Structured criminal group”, “Commitment of criminal offenses by a criminal organization and a structured criminal group”, provided for by articles 143/b/1, 28/4, 333/a/2 and 334/1 of Criminal Code.
Gj and Dh.L – “Compulsion to appear before the judicial police”, provided by article 234 of the Penal Code, as suspects for the criminal offenses of “Computer fraud”, in collaboration, provided for by articles 143/b paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code.
The Special Prosecutor’s Office against Corruption and Organized Crime registered criminal proceedings no. 300, dated 9.12.2021 for the criminal offences: “Copy fraud”, carried out in cooperation in the form of a structured criminal group, provided as a criminal offense by articles 143/b, 28/4, 333/a and 334 of the Criminal Code.
On the basis of the request for legal assistance from the German justice authorities, namely, the Bamberg General Prosecutor’s Office and in accordance with the Decisions of the Special Court against Corruption and Organized Crime (GJKKO) on 16.3.2022, checks were carried out on the premises of the entity “Bluenergycall shpk” and its related entities.
Fraud scheme
From the material evidence seized and from the acts of criminal proceedings fascicle no. 300 of 2021, processed in cooperation with the German judicial authorities, it has emerged that German citizens and other European citizens were invited by the agents of “Bluenergycall shpk” to invest in international stock markets by depositing money on fraudulent platforms.
Deposits of money were made in bank accounts of different countries such as; Bulgaria, Lithuania, Poland, Cyprus, etc., to other European countries and beyond and then disappeared through successive transfers or conversion to cryptocurrency. It has also been proven that the frauds were committed through two IP addresses, used by the entity “Bluenergycall shpk”, in Albania. During the check carried out on 16.3.2022, direct electronic data were extracted that were analyzed by the German justice authorities and specifically, by the Bamberg General Prosecutor’s Office for cybercrimes.
In the framework of this investigation, the Special Prosecutor’s Office has initially sent the owner, IT of the call center, “Bluenergycall shpk”, to trial, accused of committing a criminal offense; “Computer fraud”, in cooperation, in the form of a structured criminal group, “Creation and participation in a structured criminal group”, provided by articles 143/b/2, 28/4, 333/a/1 and 334/1 of the Criminal Code, as well as 11 other citizens, accused only of committing the criminal offense: “Participation in a structured criminal group”, provided by article 333/a, second paragraph of the Criminal Code. (see announcement dated 16.6.2023)
The investigations for the unidentified persons involved in this activity continued within the framework of separate proceedings 300/1 of 2021.
The security measures executed yesterday are the result of a voluminous work for the detailed analysis of computer data, compared with other physical evidence, as well as the controls mentioned above, through which it was possible to identify other members of the structured criminal group.
