a few seconds agoWho are the Osman brothers from Kosovo, the billionaires who were hit by EUROOPOL
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)In Kosovo, the Osman brothers are known as famous billionaires. For years they have lived in Germany, where they have had problems with wealth justice, but businesses also extend them to Spain, Belgium, Holland, and other European countries. Money has reportedly been invested in construction, property trading, luck games, while Albanian media have presented themselves as [...]
But in recent hours, in European media, the Osman brothers are being mentioned as an important clan, bringing cocaine from Latin America, to spread it across Europe.
Belgian media were the first to report on the operation, attended by 600 police officers and expanded to 7 European countries, organised by Europol. The target was a cocaine trafficking organisation run by Albanians, whose names were discovered yesterday.
Who is the Union Osman, the greatest of four brothers
50-year-old Albanian from Kosovo, the Osman Union is represented in the Spanish media as the mob boss in love with Majorca. A member of a clan with suspicious businesses in Germany where he had already been sentenced to nearly four years in prison along with his brother in 2008 for an economic crime he arrived on the island two decades ago and married a German woman at his residence and learned Lapsi.al. For the banquet of hundreds of guests, he flew known German and Albanian artists.
Osman spends long periods in Majorca, writes Spanish media, where his wife and father - in - law were arrested. Europol operation baptized “The black eagle” captured the Osman Union in Croatia. After a few days, he is extradited to Spain.
A photo of the Osman Union with the Nick Nolte and Till Schweiger actors at the Ritzi restaurant in Puerto Portals, has invaded the Spanish media. The restaurant might have been used for money laundering, according to the investigation.
House money, money laundering
The search at the Osman Union residence in Camp de Mar on Tuesday lasted longer than expected. The agents' efforts focused on opening the safe. After several hours of work, they managed to open it and found money, jewelry, and documentation. Part of the money, several thousand euros, was already in front of agents in the most unexpected spot, between a box of hygienic napkins in the bathroom.
The investigation put Osman at the head of a drug trafficking criminal organisation and money laundering. His arrest was one of the agents' top priorities. According to investigations, the network is dedicated to the introduction of large quantities of cocaine into Europe from South America through various European ports, reports Lapsy.al. Drugs were distributed throughout the continent by private planes, double - bottom vehicles, mailboxes, and shipping containers.
Subsequent Riches
More than 30m euros cleared, real estate investments in Majka, 86 oil paintings worth fivem euros, seven luxury cars, 16 luxury hours, 203,000 euros in cash and 40,000 in cryptovaluta. This is the seized property in Mallorca to the Osman Union, the main leader of the money laundering network dismantled last Tuesday in Mallorca. The organisation had amassed this vast wealth thanks to the cleaning of large profits taken from the import of cocaine brought by South America, Spanish media say.
A total of 18 arrests occurred on the island. One of the strengths was the inspection at the Ritzi restaurant in Puerto Portals. The agents also entered the BO hotel, which represents the plot organiser, and the facility located on the first floor.
The amount of unequivocally charged coins from this organization revealed how bitcoin and altcoin are used for money laundering.
US FBI agents and British NCA were present for the operation.
In addition to Majorca, Belgium was the other major nerve centre of this anti-money laundering macrowork. In Belgium alone, 30 arrests were made and 1.3m euros were seized. Also seized were a dozen light weapons, two with silencers, ten kilograms of cocaine, 13 vehicles, and 1,000 liters of mixing for drug preparation.
Since Spanish and Belgian agents were involved in similar investigations into the organisation led by the Osman brothers, they established a joint task force supervised by Eurojust through Europol.
The organization had branches in Hamburg's red - light neighborhood, Sankt Paul, where two were investigated. The main goal has been arrested in Croatia along with another person, and another has remained under investigation. Three checks have been conducted in this country, with two pistols seized, 56 thousand euros and several computers and mobile phones, reports Laps.al. The 2018 drug operation conducted in Spain served to reveal that money obtained from cocaine sales was cleaned up with large investments in businesses. Mallorca was prominent in this regard. According to these investigations, the Ritzi de Portals restaurant and the purchase of real estate on the island was financed with money from drug trafficking.
Connection to the star Arthur Shehu
Italian media report that one of the organisation's leading figures, which was led by the Osman brothers, is also Arthur Shehu, the hot spot mediating with property on the Albanian coast. Arthur Shehu's name has been coveted for ties with government Secretary General Rama Angel Agac.
A representative of Arthur Shehu has been arrested as owner of an accommodation facility at Viale Montegrappa. Arthur Shehu's “backer task was to launder money in the Prato area. It's about huge sums of money coming from international cocaine traffic from South America to Europe through Hamburg port. The Ottoman clan owns real estate worth several dozen million in Germany and writes Italian media, which mention the exploitation of prostitution. “All casinos and public homes in Prague were under their control” wrote IlTireno.
The Qazim brothers (named Felix), Burim, Bekim and the Osman Union were defeated by operation “Black Eagle”, executed by the Order of Prato Carabinieri and the Department of Anti-Mafia Investigations of Florence.
The criminal organisation imported and managed vast cocaine traffic from Latin America with shipping and air transport at Europe's destination. Spain and other EU countries were later used for complex revenue laundering operations from drug trafficking for an estimated value of several million euros. The dangerous Mafia-type criminal group had established a series of companies in Majka, Germany and Croatia to clean up big illegal profits, using first names, coded communications devices and making regular trips to Dubai, Mexico and Colombia.
This joint operation is the result of an international complex investigation involving the Anti-Mafia (Dia) and Belgium Police Forces, Spain, Germany, Holland, Croatia and the United Kingdom in co-operation with the International Police Co-operation Service. and included over 600 police officers, including Special Departments, co-ordinated by Eurojust and Europol.
