Albanians count to over $500,000

Vlora police, in co-operation with the prosecution, have executed the preventative seizure of a bank account worth $51,000 at a second-level bank, on account of an investigation into criminal work to clean up criminal products or criminal activity.

The person to whom these investigations are conducted is the owner of a network of restaurants in the city of Vlora and Tirana, Albanian media write.

The investigations have raised suspicions that following some unjustified bank transactions for selling real estate in Tirana between the person in the investigation and an American citizen, efforts to launder money, whose origins are questionable with criminal backgrounds are hidden.

According to the prosecution, among Albanian citizens who are under investigation and American citizens who have transferred money to Albania, there is no kind of contract trading or orders of any real estate.

Based on investigations conducted by the Vlora prosecution and its request, the coastal city court decided on August 9th for the parliamentary bank account sequential sequencing of $531m, until the full outcome of the investigation into the case. /tch