Jetmir Pepa and his family were able to invest and hide dozens of businesses in Albania, which, according to an estimate, are worth 69 million euros.
The show “Në Shënjester” published the history of the criminal activity of the criminal group of the Pepa brothers, which with the money earned from the cocaine traffic, set up dozens of businesses and a construction company ‘Pepa Group’ that received tenders from the state
During the show, nw SkyEcc conversations were published, where the Pepa brothers talk to each other about reconstruction tenders as well as building permits in the most coveted area of Tirana, that of ’21 December’.
The company has its headquarters in the industrial zone on the Tirana-Durrës highway.
Where SPAK has already seized it, together with many other businesses in which they are the majority shareholders and where assets worth 12 million euros have been seized during the execution of security measures.
Criminal group which, during the years 2019-2021, operated in Latin America, Belgium and the Netherlands, where 8 episodes of cocaine trafficking in large quantities were documented.
Similarly, following the request of the Special Prosecutor’s Office with decision no. 20, dated April 14, 2026, the Special Court against Corruption and Organized Crime (GJKKO) has assigned the security measure ‘prison arrest’ to 11 Albanian citizens.
Where the investigators of the National Bureau of Investigation in cooperation with the General Directorate of the State Police have made it possible to implement security measures against citizens:
Fation Marku, born February 20, 1992
Lulezim Pepa, born July 6, 1974
Anton Kola, born June 19, 1993
Meanwhile, the General Directorate of the State Police in cooperation with the BKH investigators continue with the procedural and operative actions for the location of other citizens, to whom the personal security measure ‘arrest in prison’ has been assigned.
Some of these persons who are not located in the territory of the Republic of Albania.
Among the key people who could not be stopped are Aleks Pepa and his brother Jetmir Pepa.
The latter, as we said, is also known as ‘Casanova’.
While the list of seized businesses includes numerous bank accounts, large areas of land, hotels, and even luxury vehicles.
A part of them registered in the name of family members who had no financial possibility to buy them with the income they declared from employment.
Where a part of these family members who possessed these amazing assets, were employed with minimal salaries, precisely in these businesses that served as money laundering for drug trafficking.
Seized businesses
In total, 231 properties, commercial companies, land areas, apartments, commercial units, apartments, bank accounts of companies and in the name of various individuals and luxury vehicles were seized.
Specifically, the seized assets are:
The company ‘Pepa Group’ with headquarters in Kashar, km 6, Tirana-Durrës highway
The company “HEC ARSTI” with headquarters in Shkodër, Fierze
The company ‘BIV’ shpk, with headquarters in Lezhë, Rubik village Fan, where 50 percent of the shares belong to the partner of ‘Pepa Group’.
The company “Shengjini 2013” shpk, with headquarters in Lezhë, to the extent of 50 percent which belong to the partner of “Pepa Group”
The company ‘Oxford Hotel’, shpk, Municipal unit no. 1, including any movable and immovable property, assets, rights to third parties, part of the company’s capital.
The company ‘Maison Nuve Aesthetics’, headquartered in Tirana.
‘E.DK.AL’ shpk, with headquarters in Ishull-Shengjin, with the trade name ‘Soluna’, etc.
But what are the businesses in which the Pepa brothers had invested and hidden in the name of their family members.
What was the mechanism they had chosen to launder the money of international cocaine traffic?
According to SPAK, none of the businesses in the name of the Pepa family justify the legal source of income.
This is based on all the employment data related to the managers of these businesses.
Where does it come from that one of the Pepa brothers does not justify the source of income from employment in Albania in the last 10 years.
This, compared to the investment he has made in various businesses.
According to Spak, specifically, the incomes of the below-mentioned persons were very modest.
While they find that they have created commercial activities, which from the entirety of the investigations and the lack of financial means are considered as a way to hide the illegal source of financing the assets created, through fictitious schemes, hidden under legal actions.
Investigation File
Citizen Lulëzim Pepa, from March 2012 to October 2025, was employed in several private entities, such as the entity ‘Pepa Group’, where he was paid a gross salary in the amount of 104 million old ALL.
Citizen L. Pepa, for the same period, was paid a gross salary in the amount of 35 million old ALL.
Citizen Urim Pepa for the period December 2012-May 2021, was paid a gross salary in the amount of 93 million old lek.
Citizen B. Pepa, for the period from October 2015 to October 2025, was paid a total of 53 million old ALL.
Citizen Jetmir Pepa, it turns out that for the period from July 2019 to October 2025, he was employed in a private entity and in total he was paid 50 thousand old lek.
Citizen Pepa Lek, from December 2011 to May 2012, was paid in the amount of 99 thousand old Lek.
Citizen V. Pepa, in total, was paid from December 2012 to August 2025 in the amount of 55 million old ALL.
While the citizen Aleks Pepa, it does not appear that he was employed in Albania.
Like citizen B. Pepa, who had no employment history.
SPAK’s investigations show that only one of the Pepa brothers, namely Urim Pepa, who died in a fatal accident in 2021, had founded seven trading companies together with his citizen wife B. Pepa.
Specifically, ‘Pro Home’, LLC with registration date June 26, 2012.
‘Pepa Group’, sh.pk, with registration date October 15, 2014.
‘Oxford Hotel’, sh.pk, with registration date June 14, 2017.
“Property Investment 2020”, sh.pk
Also, the company ‘Pepa Group’ sh.pk, had bought 33.5% of the shares in 2018 of the company ‘HEC ARSTI’, sh.pk, with registration date April 1, 2016
And in 2022, he also bought 50% of the shares of the company “IUV”, sh.pk, with registration date January 1, 2003.
Companies which in fact result in their annual balance sheets with either losses or minimal profits.
But even though after the death of her husband in the tragic accident that happened on May 19, 2021 in Mamurras, an important part of the company ‘Pepa Group’ passed to the citizen B. Pepa and their children, in fact SPAK has discovered that all the assets were controlled by Lulëzim Pepa.
Who in the meantime managed all the assets of the brothers, on behalf of the family.
Inheritance of assets
Referring to the historical extract of the CKB, the partners of the company ‘Pepa Group’, sh.pk, were citizens Urim Pepa and his wife citizen B, Pepa.
After the year 2021, when the citizen Urim Pepa passed away, the partners of the company became the citizen B. Pepa and her children with 25% of the shares each, but de facto all the companies in the name of the Pepa family members were managed by the elder brother of the Pepa family (where all the Pepa brothers are the owner), specifically by the citizen Lulëzim Pepa.
Here again, the platform that revealed who the manager of the Pepa brothers’ assets really was became Sky Ecc.
As well as from the powers of attorney of 2022, where despite the fact that the administrator of these assets was their sister, citizen V, Pepa, all actions on behalf of the company Pepa Group, sh.pk, were authorized by citizen Lulëzim Pepa.
As in another prosecutor’s office in 2023, where the administrator and simultaneously partner of the company ‘Oxford Hotel’, sh.pk, has appointed citizen Lulëzim Pepa as general representative.
Thus giving him not only the right of administration, but basically all the decision-making rights that belong to the partners of the commercial company.
