Two Norwegians were clearing money in Albania.

The Tirana prosecution has uncovered a real money laundering scheme -- this time by two Norwegian nationals -- who chose Albania to clear over 800 thousand euros, allegedly created by fraud schemes.

Ove Johansson and Joo Borgen Nillsen are the two Norwegians who attempted to justify hundreds of thousands of euros in criminal activity by opening ghost firms in our country and trading.

Of the investigations conducted has resulted that society “Norweganian Golf Development AS”, registered in Norway, has sold its shares in our country for a value of 2850 euros.

The main buyer of these shares by 90 percent is Ove Johannson. Two months after this contract, Johannson sells his co-independent Joo Borgen Nilsen 40 percent of the shares of the firm for a value of 600 thousand euros.

So a price 500 times greater than the value of buying at a time that no investment was made in society. Nag the other Norwegian side, Nilsen, enrolled society in our country named “Asia Capital Group” with activities, construction, design and implementation of engineering projects.

By means of these Norwegian campaigns, the Norwegian people brought in bank accounts from the Philippines, worth 600 thousand euros.

This figure has been seized by the prosecution, which in addition to the suspicious transactions of the purchase of very cheap shares and the sale worth 500 times higher, has collected information that the two Norwegians are wanted and convicted in other countries of the region.

Ove Johanson results in condemnation in Kosovo for a fraud of 300 thousand euros. While Joo Borgen Nilsen results in part of pyramid schemes in Norway known as Unaico.

The two Norwegian defendants have recently been sent for trial in absentia at the Tirana court, after being evacuated outside Albania. / TCh/